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The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami) has announced the newest season of ICA SPEAKS, an artist lecture series focused on promoting the exchange of art and ideas.
Now through May, the virtual and in-person events in the Miami Design District will feature a series of talks given by artists represented in ICA Miami’s permanent collection, including Lyle Aston Harris, Stefanie Heinze, Louis Fratino, Ellen Lesperance, Liz Deschenes, and Paul Mpagi Sepuya.
ICA Speaks, which is open to the public at no cost with required RSVP at www.icamiami.org/calendar, reflects the museum’s ongoing commitment to providing a dynamic and critical platform for the most innovative and experimental artists working today. The selection of artists represents the inclusiveness and strength of the museum’s holdings and its dynamic international community of support.
“ICA Miami is committed to producing new scholarship and dialogue around contemporary art and timely issues,” said Alex Gartenfeld, artistic director of ICA Miami. “ICA Speaks creates a forum where members of our museum community engage with our collection by hearing from the artists themselves. We are proud that this series features today’s leading artists, and figures whose works advance important and inclusive narratives of contemporary art.”
Fall 2021 ICA Speaks program schedule:
Lyle Ashton Harris — Sept 23, 7 p.m.; Moore Building, 191 NE 40 St.
Lyle Ashton Harris (b. 1965, Bronx, NY) has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photography and collage to installation and performance art. His work explores intersections between the personal and the political, examining the impact of ethnicity, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic.
Harris has been widely exhibited internationally, and he is represented in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annendale-on-Hudson, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Pérez Art Museum, Miami; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Tate Modern, London, UK; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, among others.
Stefanie Heinze — Oct. 23, 7 p.m.; Palm Court, 140 NE 39 St.
Since graduating with a master’s from the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig in 2014, Stefanie Heinze (b. 1987, Berlin) has presented solo exhibitions at Petzel, New York (2020); Capitain Petzel, Berlin (2019); LC Queisser, Tbilisi (2019); Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2019); Mary Boone Gallery, New York (2018), and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2017), among others.
Heinze’s works are in the collections of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, and the Marguerite Hoffman Collection, Dallas.
Louis Fratino — Nov. 18, 7 p.m.; Palm Court, 140 NE 39 St.
Louis Fratino (b. 1993, Annapolis, MD) received his BFA in Painting with a concentration in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD in 2015. He is a recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Painting, Berlin (2015–16) and a Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship, Norfolk, CT in 2014. Fratino lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. The artist’s first institutional solo exhibition will open at the Des Moines Art Center in November 2021.
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, 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 Dec. 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 41 St., Miami, FL 33137. Hours are Wednesday-Sunday, noon to 6 p.m. (senior hours are 11 a.m. to noon. Admission is free.
Learn more at www.icamiami.org.
