New Strategies of Display: Asian American Art, Technology & Storytelling

Thursday, March 16th
6:00pm- 8:30pm

New Strategies of Display: Asian American Art, Technology & Storytelling is a conversation between artists Masako Miki, Astria Suparak, and TT Takemoto, moderated by Robert M. and Ruth L Halperin Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Co-director of the Asian American Art Initiative, Cantor Arts Center Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander. The conversation explores the intersection of Asian world-building, storytelling, and the role of technology today.

Berkeley Art Tour: BAMPFA and Naomie Kremer Studio Visit

Sunday, February 12th, 2023/ BAMPFA

Join the ICA San José at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive on February 12th for a guided tour of the Amalia Mesa-Bains exhibition, followed by a studio visit with Naomie Kremer. This visit is for ICA members at the Advocate Level (Formally known as $250 Collectors Level) and above.

The Time and Space of Now: Artist Talk with Mildred Howard, Oliver Lee Jackson, and Dewey Crumpler

Wednesday, January 11th / 6:30-8PM / The Battery San Francisco

The Time and Space of Now is a conversation between artists Mildred Howard, Oliver Lee Jackson, and Dewey Crumpler, moderated by A-lan Holt, Director at the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. Join us in San Francisco at The Battery for this conversation, inspired by Mildred Howard’s exhibition at the ICA San José titled The Time and Space of Now.

Please email haley@sjica.com to reserve your spot on the list.

Members Only Walkthrough of Conrad Egyir’s Exhibition and Facade Project

Friday, October 1st / 4-5PM / In-person

Join us before the exhibition opens to the public for a first look and walk-through with the artist. Conrad Egyir: A Chapter of Love, will be a large-scale commission of a new work from Detroit-based Ghanaian artist Conrad Egyir presented in partnership with Facebook Open Arts.

Curator-led Tour of Ebony G. Patterson

June 26 11:00AM-12:00PM / In-person

We are so grateful to our members for their ongoing support of the ICA San José. As a thank-you for your commitment, on June 26 we are hosting an in-person, members-only curator led tour of Ebony G. Patterson (recently featured in the NY Times!) at the ICA. We cannot wait to see you in person!

Art Basel Miami Virtual Event

December 3 6:00-7:30PM / Via Zoom

Every year, once Thanksgiving is over, the Art World flocks to Miami Beach for some art, food, drinks, parties and sunshine. This year, Art Basel has created an online viewing room platform for galleries around the world. We can’t guarantee sunshine, but we can promise you some great art, a little Miami architecture and a taste of Miami fare at our Virtual ICA goes to Miami Party!

Book Club with Best Selling Author, Sarah Thornton

November 12, 6 PM PST / Via Zoom
(Socially distanced and in person if possible by this point)

Formerly the chief art market correspondent for The Economist, Sarah Thornton is the author of three critically acclaimed books. A Canadian, who lived in the UK for over twenty years before making San Francisco her home, Thornton was once hailed as “Britain’s hippest academic,” but she is now better known as “the Jane Goodall of the art world.”

Thornton will join us to discuss her book Seven Days in the Art World, which reveals the inner workings of the sophisticated subcultures that make up the contemporary art world through a series of day-in-the-life narratives set in New York, Los Angeles, London, Basel, Venice, and Tokyo. The book is cleverly divided into seven day-in-the-life chapters, each focusing on a different facet of the contemporary art world: an auction (at Christie’s New York), an art school “crit” (at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia), an art fair (Art Basel, Switzerland), an artist’s studio (in Tokyo with Japanese star Takashi Murakami), a prize (Britain’s prestigious Turner Prize), a magazine (Artforum) and a biennale (Venice).

Virtual Collection Tour: Pamela and David Hornik

October 22, 6 PM PST / Via Zoom 

Please join Executive Director Alison Gass for a virtual tour of  Pamela and David Hornik’s collection. The Horniks have built a powerful collection that is largely driven by a mission to create a more inclusive and diverse future for the contemporary art world. They also have fabulous taste and an incisive curiosity to meet artists and learn about the work in their collection. They will walk us through their home (virtually) and then join us for a Q and A!