Exhibition openings during Art Basel Miami Beach 2021
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) opens major exhibitions for Jadé Fadojutimi, Hugh Hayden and others.
Opening night presented by W Magazine: open to art fair members and selected cardholders
Artist talk and brunch with Hugh Hayden: open to members, donors, artists and invited guests
Soho Beach House, 4385 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33140
Institute for Contemporary Art, Miami
61 NE 41st Street
Miami, FL 33137
United States
Special exhibitions
Jadé Fadojutimi: Another pathetic mistake
November 30, 2021 – April 17, 2022
The first solo museum presentation of this fresh voice in painting, Yet, Another Pathetic Fallacy by Jadé Fadojutimi, features a number of new, layered large-format paintings created for the exhibition, as well as a number of existing works – a comprehensive snapshot of the artist’s history to date . Representing a new generation that is reviving abstraction, Fadojutimi cites and updates the most important art-historical elements of the 20th in a sublime search for their final forms, in bloom or in movement. Her complex images, using a surprising and electric palette of colors, can suggest plants and garlands, microscopic activity, seascapes or stained glass windows that linger on the threshold of abstraction and figuration, landscape and object.
Hugh Hayden: Boogey Men
November 30, 2021 – April 17, 2022
Hugh Hayden: Boogey Men features a number of monumental new works created for the occasion that will debut at ICA Miami. In his innovative cross-media work, Hayden creates anthropomorphic forms that explore our relationship with nature. Formally trained as an architect, Hayden employs tedious processes – selecting, carving, manufacturing – that lead to dynamic, surreal, and critical responses to personal experiences and social and cultural problems.
Exhibitions on the ground floor
Ellen Lesperance: Amazon Knight
November 30, 2021-27. March 2022
Ellen Lesperance’s Amazonknights exhibition presents a selection of new and existing paintings and two new sculptures that pay homage to feminist activism. Inspired by protest actions that shaped the 20th century, the artist explores historical film material and photographs, procures images of the demonstrators’ hand-knitted clothing and translates them into paintings and sculptures.
Shuvinai Ashoona
November 30, 2021 – May 1, 2022
ICA Miami presents Shuvinai Ashoona: Drawings, the artist’s first museum presentation in the United States, featuring a series of enigmatic drawings and prints that observe the evolution of indigenous life. Utilizing a range of dynamic formal resources, from foreshortened perspective and eerie aerial photography to mismatched scales and staging, her often large and strange drawings and carefully crafted prints focus on the people around her and arctic life as it is from living on the land to sedentary communities.
Harold Mendez: And maybe here in between
November 30, 2021 – May 1, 2022
ICA Miami is proud to present “And, Maybe, here, between” by artist and sculptor Harold Mendez. As a first-generation American of Colombian and Mexican descent, Mendez explores the long arc of hemispherical history in his works, from the cosmologies of the ancestors to the diasporic knowledge that forms such an important part of the cultures of the New World. In photography, sculpture and installation, Mendez’s objects explore cultural memory, rituals and transnational experiences.
Digital commissions 2020–21: … what endures …
November 30, 2021-27. March 2022
In spring 2020, in response to the global pandemic and the resulting closure of our physical galleries, ICA Miami initiated a series of digital commissions to stimulate and support artistic production in Miami and beyond. The resulting works were conceived independently by sixteen invited artists, but this unprecedented moment provides a rich and urgent context in which we wonder how we connect with the works and with each other. Together, these works deal with topics such as identity, community, social justice and a changing natural environment.
Stairwell
Anthea Hamilton
November 30, 2021 – November 1, 2022
Anthea Hamilton presents a new commissioned work for the central stairwell of ICA Miami. Hamilton works in installation, assemblage, sculpture and performance, reflecting on the joys and politics of looking, while combining found images and narratives. Hamilton’s immersive installations often play with scale and proportions while referring to architecture, fashion, and popular culture.
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