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Happy birthday baby girl! You’re a dream come true. We love you so much! Stay fun you little clown 💕 by @amberesseiva

I’ve wanted to bring Tony Cokes to the ICA for as long as I’ve been here, and it’s incredibly meaningful to finally see this exhibition realized.

Especially proud of Against Monumentality (2026), a new commission that contributes to the ongoing conversation about monuments and their place in our society.

So grateful to Tony, @greenenaftali, the ICA team for bringing this ambitious exhibition to life! Special thanks @kennedyhollins @98.everafter @nebi_gereme @ickhouse for making is happen for real. Design by @lauracoombs

Tony Cokes: Texts, Tracks, and Talks (1992-2026) on view through Feb 21

📸 @dhhphoto by @amberesseiva

New York (Not calling it a dump)

Kids at Jones Beach - Dear Mazie, at The Church in Sag Harbor - kids at David’s childhood home - kids at natural history museum - Sable Elyse Smith at Flag Art Foundation - guest lecture poster at Columbia University - Dear Mazie, book launch event at CARA - Arthur Jafa’s “I am Tony” - Taryn Simon’s stunning, winding, surgical view of the USA in “Father Country I do Love You” - Rats! - kids in azurest 🩵 by @amberesseiva

Now on view: Tony Cokes (@cokes_tony): “Texts, Tracks, Talks (1992–2026)”, Cassi Namoda (@cas_amandaa): “Life is the Seamstress of Dreams,” and Diane Severin Nguyen (@_melancholia): “WAR SONGS duet” — through February 21, 2027.

We are open all weekend from 10 AM–5 PM! by @amberesseiva

Our wonderful little boy is 4! He’s smart! He’s curious! He’s got so many questions! He’s a good drummer! He’s a sweetie! He needs to know how EVERYTHING works! He’s got more questions! He’s perfectly weird! How loves a job! He’s a cook! He’s an artist! And he’s our boy. We love you Solie XO by @amberesseiva

Proud of ICA’s new public art initiative, Broad Signals 🪷 Studio Ossidiana’s Pond Theater will be up until November 29th 💕 come hang

Graphic identity @lauracoombs
📸 David Hale by @amberesseiva

Abigail DeVille: Deo Vindice (Orion’s Cabinet) on view until August 18th at the ICA ❤️

📸 David Hale by @amberesseiva

Also opening June 5 is FERTILE RESISTANCE, the inaugural program in the ICA’s new multi-year Collection-in-Residence partnership with KADIST. This collaboration will bring KADIST’s global collection to our galleries and university classrooms.

Fertile Resistance features works by Farah Al Qasimi, Regina José Galindo, Enrique Ramírez, Miljohn Ruperto and Rini Yun Matea, Kaylene Whiskey, and Open Group (Yuriy Biley, Pavlo Kovach, and Anton Varga).

The program explores memory, belonging, resistance, migration, war, and ecological change across geographies spanning Chile, Australia, California, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, and Guatemala.

Screening in ICA’s Auditorium Tuesday–Sunday, 1–5 PM. The program is just the beginning of an exciting new chapter with KADIST and another step forward for the ICA 🌟

Thanks to @delpesco for your collaboration and to my colleagues @kennedyhollins @cutenewstore and @98.everafter for the curatorial insight. by @amberesseiva

So proud to announce the debut of the ICA’s new public art initiative, BROAD SIGNALS, launching with Pond Theater, a newly commissioned work by the Rotterdam-based architecture and design duo Studio Ossidiana.

With BROAD SIGNALS, we are transforming our grounds into a lively, playful, and thought-provoking site. We’re making it cute out here!

Join us on Friday, June 5, to celebrate the opening of Pond Theater and our summer exhibitions.

Thanks to the many people who made this possible and especially to @teacherbell for the leadership and support and @nebi_gereme for the wrangling. by @amberesseiva

An anti-monument to the Confederacy comes home.

This summer, “Abigail DeVille (@victoriouspurple): Deo Vindice (Orion’s Cabinet)” will travel from the acclaimed @moca MONUMENTS exhibition to be shown here in Richmond at the ICA.

In early April 1865, fleeing Confederate officials in Richmond, VA, ordered the city burned to prevent its munitions and railway foundry from falling into Union hands, reducing the Confederate capital to ruins. DeVille’s immersive installation meditates on the fall of Richmond at the end of the Civil War.
Inspired by photographs taken in the aftermath of the fire, DeVille constructs clusters of colonial-style curio cabinets—charred, skeletal, and lashed together by monument-restoration scaffolding wrapped in singed fabric.

The myth of the Lost Cause minimizes the centrality of maintaining slavery to the South’s secession, positing a softer picture of rebellion in the face of tyranny.

DeVille exposes the irony at the heart of this narrative. Cabinets like these are intended to shield heirlooms from dust and decay. Likewise, Lost Cause ideology has attempted to protect a distorted historical memory from the corrections of modern scholarship. Just as the burned cabinets have lost their protective utility, the Confederacy’s claim of defending its people is betrayed by its own leaders setting the city ablaze.

The cabinet clusters trace the principal stars of the constellation Orion, drawing a parallel between the mythological hunter’s drive to dominate and the Confederacy’s drive to preserve white supremacy. In both cases, their will to power drove them to ruin.

Deo Vindice will open on June 5 and be on view until August 18. Join us for the opening on June 5 from 5 to 9 PM. To learn more and to RSVP click the link in bio. The ICA is free and open to the public.

The Richmond debut of Deo Vindice (Orion’s Cabinet) is curated by Amber Esseiva, Senior Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the ICA with research support by Kennedy Jones, Curatorial Assistant

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Installation view of MONUMENTS, October 23, 2025–May 3, 2026, at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. (Photograph by Fredrik Nilsen; courtesy of MOCA and The Brick) by @amberesseiva

Can’t think of a better way to celebrate 10 years at the ICA than with a massive celebration. Thank you to everyone who celebrated with us, and to those who cheer for us from afar. 💅🏽😘 by @amberesseiva

The ICA has an exciting slate of exhibitions and programs this summer, and thanks to @cbdknives design finesse, they’re all in one place! Come see the shows and leave with some printed matter. XO by @amberesseiva