Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

10/17/2026

Artist Amani Lewis led families in a mixed-media collage painting workshop last weekend at ICA Miami during the inaugural session of I Create Art, our new series for kids ages 6+ and their adults to make art together! 🎨

Each session is led by an artist whose work is in ICA Miami’s collection or of special interest to the museum, so families learn about their practice and create side by side, building curiosity, creativity, and connection across generations.

Up next:
✨ Nov 8: Painting with Alejandro Piñeiro Bello
✨ Jan 10: Art-making with Antonia Wright
✨ Feb 14: Photography with Adler Guerrier
✨ Mar 7: Rose Marie Cromwell
✨ Apr: Drawing with ICA Miami Teaching Artist Patrick Oleson

🎟️ Stay tuned for tickets to our upcoming sessions: https://bit.ly/4jQE5uI
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Photo: Melissa Vera

10/16/2026

It's the final weekend to experience “Perfect Nonsense,” the first US museum survey of the legendary and multifaceted work of Harmony Korine. He has been a leading filmmaker since entering the public consciousness at nineteen with the generation-defining feature “Kids” (1995), and has continually expanded the language of cinema, redefining notions of counterculture and exploring new image-making technologies.

“Perfect Nonsense” features his boundary-crossing work, from painting to photography, collage, zines, and drawing. Korine has lived in Miami since 2015, which has deeply impacted the imagery and attitude of his recent work.

A rotating program of Korine’s films is also on view:
🎬 Mister Lonely: 11:00 AM & 2:30 PM
🎬 The Beach Bum: 1:00 & 4:30 PM

Reserve free tickets to visit “Perfect Nonsense” through Sunday, October 18, 11 AM – 6 PM: https://bit.ly/4lfAgOu
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Installation view: "Harmony Korine: Perfect Nonsense" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. April 15–October 18, 2026. Photo: © Harmony Korine.

10/15/2026

We’re celebrating with a spotlight on Guadalupe Maravilla’s "Disease Thrower #2" (2019), commissioned by ICA Miami as part of the artist’s first solo museum show, "Guadalupe Maravilla: Portals.” Part of the first wave of undocumented children to arrive in the United States from Central America in the 1980s, Maravilla (b. 1976, San Salvador) draws on migration, the anxieties shared by undocumented communities, illness in his family, and his own battle with cancer.

"Disease Thrower #2" incorporates a model of the human spine and a gong decorated with a Tripa Chuca drawing, made through a collaborative drawing game from El Salvador that he plays with undocumented community members. Activated through participatory performances, it can be worn as a headdress or played as a gong.

“I make the works from materials I collect while retracing my own migration route across Central America to the United States. Anatomical models represent illnesses in my family… Disease Thrower #2 has a gong with the same frequencies as the sun. This healing instrument is intended to warm the body through vibrational therapy… The human body is mostly made of water and responds to vibrations caused by sound.” — Guadalupe Maravilla
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(1) Guadalupe Maravilla, “Disease Thrower #2,” 2019, mixed media sculpture, headdress, shrine, vessel, instrument, 73 1/2 x 45 1/2 x 42 in. Collection of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. (2-3) Installation views, “Guadalupe Maravilla: Portals,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. June 27 – November 24, 2019. Photography: Frederik Nilsen Studio.

10/14/2026

Since moving to Miami in 2015, Florida’s singular atmosphere—its light, its excess, and its strange beauty—has shaped Harmony Korine’s practice. In a series of watercolor paintings on linen, Korine draws on the aesthetics of 1980s slasher VHS covers and pulp movie posters to evoke what he describes as “tropical noir.”

The largest painting here depicts Don Aronow, the late Miami entrepreneur and “Cigarette” boat inventor who helped shape the city’s mythos. A larger-than-life, maverick figure, he socialized with the Beatles and President George Bush before being murdered by a rival in 1987; his life has inspired multiple feature films telling an explosive story of Miami itself.

Experience the full breadth of Korine’s work in “Harmony Korine: Perfect Nonsense,” on view through next Sunday, October 18.

🎟️ Reserve free tickets to visit ICA Miami: https://bit.ly/4lfAgOu
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(1) Harmony Korine, Shirley’s Temple, 2016. Watercolor on linen. Craig Robins Collection. (2) Installation view: "Harmony Korine: Perfect Nonsense" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. April 15–October 18, 2026. Photo: Oriol Tarridas. © Harmony Korine.

10/13/2026

There's just one month left to see Manuel Chavajay's work at ICA Miami! Learn how the artist explores pollution in the Guatemalan Highlands through a range of media, from marine oil to traditional embroidery patterns and intervened earthenware pots. 👉

Reserve free tickets now to visit "Manuel Chavajay: Xojowi ja qa tee ruachulew" (Mother Earth Dances) at ICA Miami through November 22: https://bit.ly/4ckRgPh

10/11/2026

"Inspired by both a general sense of loss and hope that is personal to us, ['Unspecified Promise'] explores how the United States' policies toward the Hispanic Caribbean Islands of Puerto Rico and Cuba have impacted the social, economic, and political realities in the region and for members of its diaspora, many of whom reside in Miami." —

We're celebrating with a spotlight on Allora & Calzadilla's "Unspecified Promise" (2017), part of ICA Miami’s permanent collection. Jennifer Allora (b.1974, Philadelphia) and Guillermo Calzadilla (b.1971, Havana) work collaboratively across sculpture, performance, installation, and more. Here, more than thirty tons of black granite form an incomplete symmetry with half of a construction loader, while the mirror-like polished surface reflects the missing half, creating the illusion of a whole. The sculpture invokes a complex social matrix, turning the massive machines that power our lives, industries, and militaries into something both sublime and surreal.

Have you seen "Unspecified Promise" in ICA Miami's Sculpture Garden? 🏗️ 🪨 Reserve free tickets to visit the museum Wednesday – Sunday, 11 AM – 6 PM.

https://bit.ly/4zIJRU7
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Allora & Calzadilla, "Unspecified Promise," 2017, American black granite and 1993 Caterpillar 416 Series Loader Backhoe, 96 x 108 x 180 in. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Museum purchase by Allora & Calzadilla Circle: Margot and George Greig, Helen Kent-Nicoll and Edward J. Nicoll, and Ray Ellen and Allan Yarkin. Additional support provided by Barbara Z. Herzberg, Amy Dean, and Alan Kluger.

10/10/2026

How many of these movies can you name? 📽️ Harmony Korine began collecting deadstock VHS tapes in the early 2000s, drawing on the extensive time he spent in movie rental shops. He then repurposed or painted over them, as seen in this work, emphasizing that each carried its own narrative and graphic identity, both personal and collective.

Don’t miss Korine’s multidisciplinary experiments in “Perfect Nonsense,” the first US museum survey for Korine’s legendary and multifaceted work.

🎟️ Reserve free tickets to see the exhibition through October 18: https://bit.ly/4lfAgOu
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Installation view: "Harmony Korine: Perfect Nonsense" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. April 15–October 18, 2026. Photo: . © Harmony Korine.

10/09/2026

Celebrate the release of Katy Hessel’s "The Story of Art Without Men: An Illustrated Guide to Amazing Women Artists” at ICA Miami! We’re thrilled to welcome the art historian and bestselling author for a special Family Sundays book talk next Sunday, October 18, at 11:30 AM! 🎨 📚

Hessel will lead families in an interactive discussion, drawing, and visual storytelling activity, introducing participants to the groundbreaking women artists too often left out of history.

🎟️ Ages 7+. Free tickets are required for all ages, including infants: https://bit.ly/4ASlBjA

Discover groundbreaking women artists with Katy Hessel. Join this interactive family book talk featuring drawing, storytelling, and art history for ages 7 and up.

10/08/2026

Harmony Korine has drawn inspiration from music, film, and underground culture to celebrate figures at the edges of mainstream visibility. In this series, he drew on the visual language of black metal, particularly the Scandinavian scene of the 1990s, to study subculture and constructed identity.

Korine primarily rephotographed images from early AOL message boards, often featuring figures in exaggerated makeup, costuming, and gestures that function as visual codes of identity, alienation, and performance.

Experience Korine’s explorations into underground culture and identity in “Harmony Korine: Perfect Nonsense,” on view at ICA Miami through October 18.

🎟️ Reserve free tickets now: https://bit.ly/4lfAgOu
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Installation view: "Harmony Korine: Perfect Nonsense" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. April 15–October 18, 2026. Photo: Chris Carter. © Harmony Korine.

10/07/2026

“The paintings, as I was making them, wore heavy make-up and looked straight to the audience (me), confronting art history, perceived certainties, and homophobia head-on. Somehow, the eyes of everyone I meet are tattooed on mine. Referencing the eponymous gallery I founded in 2012, ‘CENTRAL FINE (self portrait)’ is informed by action painting, minimalism, glam rock, queerness, and so on.” —

We're celebrating with a spotlight on Diego Singh’s “CENTRAL FINE (self portrait)” (2020). Singh (b.1976, Salta, Argentina) began this series of self-portraits in 2004, using imagined, genderless faces that, by remaining generic, resist definitions. The work is part of ICA Miami's permanent collection and was featured in the museum's first major collection exhibition, “Fire Figure Fantasy” (2022).

Don't miss “Diego Singh: Deeper and Deeper” at ICA Miami during , the artist's first museum solo presentation. The exhibition highlights the artist's approaches to monochrome and intensive layering across new large-scale works and paintings from the past fifteen years.
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Diego Singh, "CENTRAL FINE (self portrait),” 2020, oil and acrylic on linen, 96 x 72 x 2 in. Gift of the artist and Nancy Green. Image courtesy of CENTRAL FINE, photography by Silvia Ros.