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(Boston, MA—February 6, 2019) The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) announced today the appointment of Anni Pullagura as Curatorial Assistant and Juan Omar Rodriguez as Curatorial Fellow. Anni will work on an array of upcoming exhibitions and publications, including the forthcoming survey exhibition of Deana Lawson and its accompanying publication. She will also serve a key role in the management of the ICA’s permanent collection. Juan Omar is working closely with ICA curators on the upcoming exhibition Virgil Abloh: “Figures of Speech,” in addition to supporting the curators in long-range research projects. Curatorial Fellowships are made possible, in part, through the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

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A headshot of Anni Pullagura.

Anni Pullagura
Since coming to the ICA in 2018 as a Curatorial Fellow, Anni Pullagura has supported catalogue production and exhibition planning for When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art (2019-20), William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects (2018-19), and Huma Bhabha: They Live (2019). An alumna of the Center for Curatorial Leadership/Mellon Foundation Seminar in Curatorial Practice, she has held numerous positions in cultural institutions throughout the United States, including the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, the High Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in American Studies and an MA candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University, where she also received her MA in Public Humanities in 2016. As a 2019–20 Tyson Scholar of American Art at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, her dissertation “Seeing Feeling: The Work of Empathy in Exhibitionary Spaces” traces a critical history of contemporary Black and Indigenous installation art since 1989.

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Juan Omar Rodriguez
Juan Omar Rodriguez received his MA in Art History and Museum Studies from Tufts University and his BA in Neuroscience from Oberlin College. He recently co-curated the exhibition SMFA at Tufts: Juried Student Exhibition 2019–2020 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has previously conducted research and designed public programs for Frida Kahlo and Arte Popular (2019) at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas (2018) at the Tufts University Art Galleries. 

 

 

 

 

About the ICA

Since its founding in 1936, the ICA has shared the pleasures of reflection, inspiration, imagination, and provocation that contemporary art offers with its audiences. A museum at the intersection of contemporary art and civic life, the ICA has advanced a bold vision for amplifying the artist’s voice and augmenting art’s role as educator, incubator, and convener for social engagement. Its innovative exhibitions, performances, and educational programs provide access to contemporary art, artists, and the creative process, inviting audiences of all ages and backgrounds to participate in the excitement of new art and ideas. Spanning two locations across Boston Harbor, the ICA offers year-round programming at its iconic building in Boston’s Seaport and seasonal programming (May-September) at the Watershed in an East Boston shipyard.

The ICA is located at 25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston, MA, 02210. The Watershed is located at 256 Marginal Street, East Boston, MA 02128. For more information, call 617-478-3100 or visit our website at icaboston.org. Follow the ICA at Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Acknowledgments
Curatorial Fellowships are made possible, in part, through the Diversifying Art Museum Leadership Initiative, funded by the Walton Family Foundation and the Ford Foundation.

Images
Anni Pullagura: Molly O’Donnell
Juan Omar Rodriguez: Liza Voll Photography

Visitors are invited to collaborate in the making of a large-scale tapestry designed in collaboration with local fiber artist Merill Comeau

(Boston, MA—February 4, 2020) The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA) has invited local fiber artist Merill Comeau to create an interactive installation and project in the museum’s Bank of America Art Lab with the debut of Threads of Connection, opening February 15. Comeau creates artwork that combines and layers hundreds of hand painted and printed repurposed textiles. Through this labor of love, Comeau stitches together stories of cultures, individuals, and relationships into dynamic and sprawling fiber works.  

Threads of Connection is a wall-sized tapestry installation that recognizes the building of community found within the age-old practice of gathering to assemble fabric pieces in quilting bees. This interactive project celebrates and reflects on the many different backgrounds and experiences of the people visiting the Bank of America Art Lab, as visitors of all ages are invited to collaborate in the making of the tapestry and share their stories in the museum’s own quilting bee. Contributions from visitors will be added to the tapestry regularly, creating a constantly growing reflection of the community.

Threads of Connection will be open on Saturdays and Sundays from 12–4 PM, from February 15 through June 21. The activity is free for all visitors with museum admission.

February School Vacation Week
Come visit us during school vacation week! Explore the galleries and create art together in the Bank of America Art Lab with art-making activities for visitors of all ages. Threads of Connection will be open 11 AM–4 PM during on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of February school vacation week. Admission on Presidents’ Day (Monday, February 17) will be free for all. Visit icaboston.org for more details and schedules as program dates approach.

Meet the artist on February 20, February 29, and April 23
Visitors are invited to meet Merill Comeau and learn about her creative process. More information at icaboston.org.

ICA Play Date: Crafting Community
Sat, Feb 29, 10 AM–4 PM
Kids rule the ICA the last Saturday of every month, when the museum fills up with fun, creative, and even zany activities for kids and adults to do together. Join Merill Comeau in the Bank of America Art Lab for a printmaking workshop and contribute to the growing community tapestry. We are excited to partner with Boston-based Wee the People, a social justice project for kids, as they explore themes from current exhibitions through storytelling and making. For ICA Play Dates, admission is free for up to 2 adults per family when accompanied by children ages 12 and under. Youth 17 and under are always admitted free to the ICA.

Also on view
Threads of Connection will be open during the ICA’s forthcoming exhibition Sterling Ruby, opening February 26. The exhibition is the first comprehensive museum survey for American/Dutch artist Sterling Ruby. The exhibition features more than 70 works that demonstrate the relationship between material transformation in Ruby’s practice and the rapid evolution of contemporary culture, institutions, and labor. Spanning more than two decades of the artist’s career, the exhibition features an array of works created in various mediums, from his renowned ceramics and paintings to lesser-known drawings and sculptures. Since his earliest works, Ruby has investigated the role of the artist as an outsider. Critiquing the structures of modernism and traditional institutions, Ruby addresses the repressed underpinnings of U.S. culture and the coding of power and violence, employing a range of imagery from the American flag to prison architecture and graffiti. Craft is central to his inquiry, informed by his upbringing in Pennsylvania Dutch country and working in Los Angeles, as he explores hand-based processes from Amish quilt-making to California’s radical ceramics tradition.

About the artist
Merill Comeau is a Boston-area mixed media artist specializing in textiles. She has participated in over 80 exhibitions including at the Fuller Craft Museum, Danforth Art Museum, Fitchburg Art Museum, Museums of Old York, MA and the Edward M. Kennedy Institute of Boston. Her installation Family of Origin is currently touring with FiberArt International 2019 and will travel to the Fort Collins Art Museum in Colorado in 2020. Comeau has completed ten artist residencies including three month-long stays at Weir Farm National Historic Site in CT where she researched Weir family women’s lives to use as art-making inspiration. She has been a guest artist in residence and exhibited at Southern New Hampshire University, Simmons College, Lasell University, Stonehill College, Dana Hall School and Phillips Exeter Academy. Comeau’s work has been showcased in numerous publications including Surface Design Journal, TextileArtist.org, Fiber Art Now, Textile Study Group of New York’s blog, Mass Cultural Council’s ArtsSake blog, and World of Threads Artist Interviews. In addition to her solo studio practice, Comeau facilitates the emergence of artistic voices. Since 2012, she has been a teaching artist for the Department of Youth Services making art with youth residing in secure treatment centers while serving sentences in the Massachusetts court system. In her trauma informed practice she uses visual expression as storytelling, transmitting knowledge, and defining values. She has executed over 30 public projects resulting in individual and collaborative artworks. In 2019 she taught at Eliot School of Applied Arts and Craft in Boston and the Surface Design Association’s biennial conference in St. Louis, MO. In addition to teaching, Comeau provides lectures on her work, fiber arts in a postmodern context, and visual voices of social justice.    

About the ICA
Since its founding in 1936, the ICA has shared the pleasures of reflection, inspiration, imagination, and provocation that contemporary art offers with its audiences. A museum at the intersection of contemporary art and civic life, the ICA has advanced a bold vision for amplifying the artist’s voice and augmenting art’s role as educator, incubator, and convener for social engagement. Its innovative exhibitions, performances, and educational programs provide access to contemporary art, artists, and the creative process, inviting audiences of all ages and backgrounds to participate in the excitement of new art and ideas. Spanning two locations across Boston Harbor, the ICA offers year-round programming at its iconic building in Boston’s Seaport and seasonal programming (May-September) at the Watershed in an East Boston shipyard.

The ICA is located at 25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston, MA, 02210. The Watershed is located at 256 Marginal Street, East Boston, MA 02128. For more information, call 617-478-3100 or visit our website at icaboston.org. Follow the ICA at Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Play Dates are sponsored by Vivien and Alan Hassenfeld, the Hassenfeld Family Foundation, and Alexion. 

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Major support for Sterling Ruby is provided by Sprüth Magers, Gagosian, and Xavier Hufkens.    

Additional support for the Boston presentation is generously provided by Stephanie Formica Connaughton and John Connaughton, Jean-François and Nathalie Ducrest, Bridgitt and Bruce Evans, James and Audrey Foster, Ted Pappendick and Erica Gervais Pappendick, David and Leslie Puth, and Charlotte and Herbert S. Wagner III.

 

(Boston, MA–December 19, 2019) Jill Medvedow, Ellen Matilda Poss Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA), announced that 16 significant works of art have entered the museum’s permanent collection, all acquired over the past year. Highlights include Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s ”The Beautyful Ones” Series #7 (2018), William Kentridge’s KABOOM! (2018), and Tschabalala Self’s Lite (2018), as well as works by Boston-based artists Josephine Halvorson and Lavaughan Jenkins. A selection of these new acquisitions will go on view in the coming months, including Self’s painting in Tschabalala Self: Out of Body on view Jan. 20 — July 5, 2020 and Kentridge’s immersive video installation KABOOM! on view July 22, 2020 — Jan. 3, 2021.

“The ICA Collection was started in 2006 and as a young collecting institution, we have the unique opportunity to build a collection with exemplary works of art that speak to the important issues of our time and more accurately reflect the diverse perspectives and narratives of the world we live in,” said Jill Medvedow, Ellen Matilda Poss Director at the ICA. “We are grateful to our generous donors, who share and support this vision to grow the ICA Collection with remarkable works of art that both shape and define our contemporary culture.”

“These new acquisitions introduce global and local perspectives and concerns to our publics, enabling the museum to create more dialogue around works of art within the Collection and develop richer artistic, cultural, and historical narratives,” said Eva Respini, the ICA’s Barbara Lee Chief Curator. “We look forward to sharing these works with our audiences and in the spring of 2021, we will open our most extensive and ambitious collection presentation to date.”

Select new acquisitions below; please see here for a complete list of 2019 acquisitions.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby
“The Beautyful Ones” Series #7, 2018
Acrylic, colored pencil and transfers on paper 59 ⅞ x 41½ inches (152.1 x 105.4 cm)
Acquired through the generosity of Fotene and Tom Coté, in honor of Eva Respini

One of today’s most celebrated painters, Njideka Akunyili Crosby has developed a signature style of collaged paintings that feature photographic transfers drawn from magazines, advertisements, and family albums. “The Beautyful Ones” Series #7 is part of the series The Beautyful Ones (2014- ongoing), which takes intergenerational memory and future, imagined and real, as its subject, incorporating images of children from the artist’s family photographs or from snapshots taken on recent visits to Nigeria. “The Beautyful Ones” Series #7 will be featured in a major collection presentation opening in spring 2021.

William Kentridge
KABOOM!, 2018
Three-channel HD film installation, model stage, paper props, found objects, and three mini-projectors with stands
75 ¼ x 196¼ x 40 ⅜ inches (191 x 498.5 x 102.5 cm)
Acquired through the generosity of Amy and David Abrams, James and Audrey Foster, Charlotte Wagner and Herbert S. Wagner Ill, Jeanne L. Wasserman Art Acquisition Fund, and Fotene and Tom Coté Art Acquisition Fund

KABOOM! by the South African artist William Kentridge is a mixed-media three-channel work projected onto a scale model of the stage from the artist’s tour-de-force performance The Head & the Load. Employing his trademark multidisciplinary approach and his signature trope of the procession, Kentridge builds up dynamic layers of drawings, moving images, and texts projected over top of sculptural paper props to tell the story of the nearly two million African porters and carriers used by the British, French, and Germans during World War I. The ICA will present a standalone exhibition of this immersive work from July 22, 2020, through Jan. 3, 2021.

Toyin Ojih Odutola
Heir Apparent, 2018
Pastel, charcoal, and pencil on paper
63 ¼ x 42 inches (160.6 x 106.7 cm)
Acquired through the generosity of the Acquisitions Circle

Toyin Ojih Odutola’s drawing practice stages a dynamic interplay between line, form, and color to create sensuous and probing portraits. Since 2016 the artist has focused on a series that imagines the private lives of two fictional, aristocratic Nigerian families joined by marriage. Heir Apparent comes from the series’ final installment and features the nephew of Lord Jideofor Emeka and Lord Temitope Omodele, the presumed heir of their joint wealth. The work exemplifies Ojih Odutola’s inventive narrative conceit of a reimagined Nigeria, whose portrayal challenges those often constructed by and seen in the West. It also captures her consummate skill, especially her unique handling of surfaces, skin, and interiors to create dynamic and memorable works.

Tschabalala Self
Lite, 2018
Acrylic, Flashe, milk paint, fabric, and gum on canvas
96 x 84 inches (243.8 x 213.4 cm)
Acquired through the generosity of the
Acquisitions Circle, Tristin and Martin Mannion, Rob Larsen, Patrick Planeta and Santiago Varela, and anonymous donors

Tschabalala Self is among a generation of young artists who are advancing new modes of figurative painting, often while privileging African American selfhood and intersectional identities. Her figures celebrate the black body—especially those of black women—and their textural, coloristic, and abstract qualities reference psychological and emotional states. Lite features a female figure striding assertively past a male bystander who nearly blends into the storefront, suggesting his omnipresence as a neighborhood fixture who is often ignored. Through this passive interaction, a tension emerges between stasis and movement, dereliction and progress, which the artist considers emblematic of city life. Lite is included in Tschabalala Self: Out of Body, the artist’s largest exhibition to date, on view Jan. 20 to July 5, 2020.

About the ICA’s permanent collection

Established in 2006, the ICAʼs permanent collection offers a diverse overview of national and international artworks in a range of media. The collection includes works by Nick Cave, Paul Chan, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Marlene Dumas, Nan Goldin, Eva Hesse, Mona Hatoum, Ragnar Kjartansson, Steve McQueen, Cindy Sherman, Kara Walker, and Andy Warhol, among many others. Included in the collection is The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women, encompassing major works of 20th- and 21st-century art—including important pieces by Louise Bourgeois, Ellen Gallagher, Eva Hesse, Sherrie Levine, and a monumental wall tableau by Kara Walker. The collection is currently comprised of 61 percent women artists and 31 percent artists of color.

About the ICA

Since its founding in 1936, the ICA has shared the pleasures of reflection, inspiration, imagination, and provocation that contemporary art offers with its audiences. A museum at the intersection of contemporary art and civic life, the ICA has advanced a bold vision for amplifying the artist’s voice and augmenting art’s role as educator, incubator, and convener for social engagement. Its innovative exhibitions, performances, and educational programs provide access to contemporary art, artists, and the creative process, inviting audiences of all ages and backgrounds to participate in the excitement of new art and ideas. Spanning two locations across Boston Harbor, the ICA offers year-round programming at its iconic building in Boston’s Seaport and seasonal programming (May-September) at the Watershed in an East Boston shipyard.

The ICA is located at 25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston, MA, 02210. The Watershed is located at 256 Marginal Street, East Boston, MA 02128. For more information, call 617-478-3100 or visit our website at icaboston.org. Follow the ICA at Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Sterling Ruby features over two decades of artist’s career through painting, collage, and sculpture, highlights iconic series alongside unseen early and recent works

Expansive exhibition opens at ICA/Boston on February 26 after three-month run at ICA Miami

(Boston, MA—December 18, 2019) The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA/Boston) and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) have co-organized Sterling Ruby, the most comprehensive museum survey of American/Dutch artist Sterling Ruby (b. 1972) to date. Opening at the ICA/Boston on February 26, 2020 after a three-month run at the ICA Miami, the survey brings together more than 70 works for the first time to demonstrate the relationship between material transformation in Ruby’s practice and the rapid evolution of contemporary culture, institutions, and labor. Spanning more than two decades of the artist’s career, the exhibition looks to the origins and development of his practice, through mediums ranging from lesser-known drawings and sculptures to his renowned ceramics and paintings. Sterling Ruby is organized by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator, ICA/Boston, and Alex Gartenfeld, Artistic Director, ICA Miami, with Jeffrey De Blois, Assistant Curator and Publications Manager, ICA/Boston. The exhibition will be on view at the ICA/Boston February 26 through May 26, 2020. It is on view at ICA Miami from November 7, 2019 through February 2, 2020.

“Ruby’s work embraces America’s icons, from the Stars and Stripes to craft culture, even as it delves into the dark forces at play today. It addresses a wide range of issues—from the political underbelly of the landscape to material investigations of handmade traditions—and in the process, Ruby reexamines notions of beauty, value, and the history of sculpture itself. Ruby’s uneasy combinations of materials, forms, and ideas offer the perfect analogy for our agitated times,” said Eva Respini, the ICA/Boston’s Barbara Lee Chief Curator.

“Though Sterling Ruby is distinguished for his prolific and experimental studio practice, there are many pressing thematic elements of his work that have yet to be fully considered,” said Alex Gartenfeld, ICA Miami’s Artistic Director. “By tying together the evolution of Ruby’s innovations in production and the development of his fascination with American culture, the exhibition proposes new ways to consider Ruby’s impact. Since our new permanent home opened in 2017, this is the first solo exhibition to span two full floors of the museum – offering an opportunity to explore Ruby’s practice in greater depth than ever before, including some of his earliest and rarely-seen works.”

Since his earliest works, Ruby has investigated the role of the artist as outsider. Critiquing the structures of modernism and traditional institutions, Ruby addresses the repressed underpinnings of U.S. culture and the coding of power and violence. Craft is central to his inquiry, as he explores California’s radical ceramics history to traditions of Amish quilt making, shaped by his upbringing in Pennsylvania Dutch country. The process of combining disparate elements is central to Ruby’s material reclamations, which serve as a form of autobiographical and cultural archeology. Organized loosely by chronology and medium, Sterling Ruby considers the artist’s explorations of these themes across the many materials and forms he has utilized throughout his practice.

Sterling Ruby begins with the artist’s early collages, drawings, and prints, which continuously explore the personal and cultural subconscious. These early works, including Crystal Cryer (2001) and Transient Bed of John (2003), trace the origins of the complex visual language that has come to define Ruby’s oeuvre. Further exemplifying the artist’s interest in craft, Sterling Ruby includes a selection of the ceramics for which he is widely known. Influenced by his mother’s collection of pottery and dishware, Ruby’s ceramics represent the artist’s probing of figurative forms, gesture and immediacy, and display hand-worked characteristics, but are not intended to serve functional purposes.

Throughout his career, Ruby has often employed two-dimensional mediums to elaborate on recurrent subjects including the nation’s prison-industrial complex and maximum-security prisons. In a large series of works, among them Prison (2004), Ruby combines images of prisons and pastes them on top of orange paper, referencing the color of correctional facility uniforms. The exhibition additionally considers the tension of expression and repression, particularly through Ruby’s monumental urethane works, which he began making in response to the scale limitations of ceramics. For the artist, these sculptures serve to disrupt the minimalist structures of museums—another perceived product of institutionalization. The exhibition includes several works from Ruby’s Monument Stalagmite series, towering sculptures created by a time and labor-intensive process. This includes Monument Stalagmite/The Shining (2011), which features dripped red dye that takes on the appearance of blood and refers to an iconic scene in Stanley Kubrick’s film adaption of Stephen King’s novel The Shining (1980).

Another of Ruby’s signature materials, spray paint, is present across several series and represents the artist’s blurring of high and low culture. Influenced by graffiti culture, works from the artist’s series of monumental spray-painted canvases, entitled SP, are reminiscent of landscapes—frequently evoking sceneries plagued by environmental destruction.

Ruby’s soft sculptures—formed from various fabrics stuffed with fiberfill—occupy a complex place within the artist’s practice, invoking craft and flag-making as well as horrific cartoons. As a result of growing up in a family of seamstresses and his early exposure to quilting communities in rural Pennsylvania, Ruby began reusing scraps of leftover textiles to create his QUILT and FLAG series. The exhibition places these works in dialogue with other soft sculptures fashioned from American-flag patterned fabric, including DOUBLE CANDLE (6992) (2019) and Double Vampire 14 (2013). A new work created from this fabric, entitled FIGURES. PILE. (6991) (2019), comprises a pile of interwoven figures that appear as a monumental corpselike form.

The exhibition additionally features Ruby’s metal works, including his MS series—architectural monuments that invoke violence through their gun-like forms. Made from scrap sheet metal and rebar, these forms further demonstrate Ruby’s ethos of material reuse. Also included are Ruby’s STOVES, drawing inspiration from his childhood experience of tending his family’s wood-burning stove, as well as from foundry workers’ furnaces.

Concluding the exhibition are examples from Ruby’s series, ECLPSE and SCALES, both of which reuse residual materials found throughout Ruby’s studio. These series are examples of Ruby’s interest in reviving modernist art visuals and infusing them with reused items. For instance, SCALE (4586) (2013) and SCALE (5415) S.R. CLOR. (2015) feature everyday objects both altered and found, such as cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, and bleach-splattered jeans, installed as a mobile—a form associated with modern artist Alexander Calder. Taking up classic tropes of modernism throughout his work, Ruby aims to intervene in historical forms of image making and manufacture in order to test their urgency today.

Exhibition Catalogue

Sterling Ruby is accompanied by an illustrated scholarly catalogue edited by Alex Gartenfeld and Eva Respini, with an interview by Isabelle Graw. Published with DelMonico Prestel, the catalogue features essays that consider Ruby’s work amidst the contemporary art production and visual culture of the last 30 years. The exhibition catalogue is available for purchase at the ICA Store.

The Artist’s Voice: Sterling Ruby and Virgil Abloh

Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 2 PM
Sterling Ruby and Virgil Abloh, exhibiting artists at the ICA this season, have broken barriers and notions of how and where today’s contemporary artists can or should work. In this special program, Ruby and Abloh come together to discuss their work, backgrounds, and influential creative practices that transcend any one discipline, crossing into art, fashion, design, and more. Hear more about the artists’ highly anticipated exhibitions at the ICA in this free public talk, moderated by Eva Respini, Barbara Lee Chief Curator at the ICA.

About Sterling Ruby

Sterling Ruby is a leading contemporary artist whose work has been presented in solo exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2008); Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo (2008 – 2009); Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2013); Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland (2014); and at the Belvedere, Vienna (2016); among many others.

Ruby’s work is featured in museum collections worldwide, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and Tate Modern, London.

Ruby graduated in 1996 from the Pennsylvania School of Art and Design, Lancaster. Ruby received his B.F.A. in 2002 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, and his M.F.A. in 2005 from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena. Born in 1972 on Bitburg Air Base in Bitburg, Germany, he currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

About the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

Since its founding in 1936, the ICA has shared the pleasures of reflection, inspiration, imagination, and provocation that contemporary art offers with its audiences. A museum at the intersection of contemporary art and civic life, the ICA has advanced a bold vision for amplifying the artist’s voice and augmenting art’s role as educator, incubator, and convener for social engagement. Its innovative exhibitions, performances, and educational programs provide access to contemporary art, artists, and the creative process, inviting audiences of all ages and backgrounds to participate in the excitement of new art and ideas. Spanning two locations across Boston Harbor, the ICA offers year-round programming at its iconic building in Boston’s Seaport and seasonal programming (May-September) at the Watershed in an East Boston shipyard.

The ICA is located at 25 Harbor Shore Drive, Boston, MA, 02210. The Watershed is located at 256 Marginal Street, East Boston, MA 02128. For more information, call 617-478-3100 or visit our website at icaboston.org. Follow the ICA at Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

About the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) is dedicated to promoting continuous experimentation in contemporary art, advancing new scholarship, and fostering the exchange of art and ideas throughout the Miami region and internationally. Through an energetic calendar of exhibitions and programs, and its collection, the ICA Miami provides an important international platform for the work of local, emerging, and under-recognized artists, and advances the public appreciation and understanding of the most innovative art of our time.

Launched in 2014, ICA Miami opened its new permanent home in Miami’s Design District on December 1, 2017. The museum’s central location positions it as a cultural anchor within the community and enhances its role in developing cultural literacy throughout the Miami region. The museum offers free admission, providing audiences with open, public access to artistic excellence year-round.

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami is located at 61 NE 41st Street, Miami, Florida 33137. www.icamiami.org

Media Contacts:

ICA/Boston

Margaux Leonard
mleonard@icaboston.org / 617-478-3176

ICA Miami

National and International Media:

Jill Mediatore / Megan Ardery / Barbara Escobar, Resnicow and Associates
jmediatore / mardery / bescobar@resnicow.com, 212.671.5164 / 5181 / 5174

Regional Media

Davina Dresbach, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami            
ddresbach@icamiami.org, 305.901.5272 ext. 218

Aaron Gordon, Schwartz Media Strategies
aaron@schwartz-media.com, 305.858.3935

Acknowledgments

Major support for Sterling Ruby is provided by Sprüth Magers, Gagosian, and Philanthropic Action Xavier Hufkens    

SPONSORS_Spruth Magers Gagosian Xavier Hufkens combined Sterling Ruby

Additional support for the Boston presentation is generously provided by Stephanie Formica Connaughton and John Connaughton, Jean-François and Nathalie Ducrest, Bridgitt and Bruce Evans, James and Audrey Foster, Ted Pappendick and Erica Gervais Pappendick, David and Leslie Puth, and Charlotte and Herbert S. Wagner III.