ICA / Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

Apr 22 – Oct 15, 2023:

Avery Singer: Unity Bachelor
Special Exhibition / 3rd Floor

A leading artist of her generation, Avery Singer uses innovative tools to create iconic, complex paintings that interpret contemporary social realities and technologies. The artist’s large-scale paintings portray worlds that emerge from digital renderings and take shape through manual and digital airbrush techniques, liquid and solid masking, and complex layering processes. Singer’s work has often engaged modernist and avant-garde movements to cite the radical potential for painting. Works in this exhibition reference Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) (1912), through which Singer explores issues of form, memory, and the sensation of falling.

Apr 6 – Oct 8, 2023:

Denzil Forrester: We Culture
Special Exhibition / 2nd Floor

“Denzil Forrester: We Culture” brings together twenty paintings and a dozen drawings from the Grenada-born artist’s first seven years of production, 1978 to 1985. One of the preeminent British and Caribbean painters of the last few decades, Forrester has become an important influence on a generation of younger artists.

May 5 – Nov 26, 2023:

Aglaé Bassens: Emptiful
Ground Floor / Ray Ellen and Allan Yarkin Gallery

With a practice rooted in observation and critical analysis, Aglaé Bassens creates alluring and poignant depictions of everyday life. “Aglaé Bassens: Emptiful” is the debut solo museum presentation for the Brooklyn-based painter. In these recent works, Bassens draws from her experience of becoming a new parent, using the opportunity to take on the duality of life’s passage—love and grief, fulfillment and apprehension.

May 5 – Nov 12, 2023:

Claire Tabouret: Au Bois d’Amour
Ground Floor

“Claire Tabouret: Au Bois d’Amour” features new works by the French painter, whose practice examines complex representations of identity and sexuality, the nuances of human intimacy, and the nostalgic passing of time. Across two galleries on ICA Miami’s ground floor, Tabouret displays her experimentation with format and technique, showcasing several of her “Fluff” paintings, a set of monoprints, and a unique, artist-designed rug.

May 5 – Nov 26, 2023:

Hudinilson Jr.: Tension Zone
Ground Floor / Dr. Shulamit Katzman Gallery
Ground Floor / Kadre Family Gallery

Hudinilson Jr. (b. 1957, São Paulo; d. 2013, São Paulo) is one of the most significant Brazilian artists of his generation. The first exhibition of his work in a US museum, “Hudinilson Jr.: Tension Zone” is an introductory survey of a figure who is increasingly becoming an important reference point for younger artists for his artistic output but also for his antiestablishment attitude and participation in experimental collectives, workshops, public interventions, and exhibitions. Coming of age during the most repressive time of the military dictatorship in Brazil, Hudinilson Jr. constantly placed himself at social and artistic margins and made his life indistinguishable from his artistic practice in ways that still find resonance today.

Nov 28, 2022 – Oct 15, 2023

Nina Chanel Abney: Cafeteria
Stairwell

In conjunction with her exhibition “Big Butch Energy” (November 28, 2022–March 5, 2023), Nina Chanel Abney has created a monumental wallpaper installation that responds to ICA Miami’s three-story staircase, its multiple landings, and its perspectives.