Institute of Contemporary Art

Past Exhibitions

2020 – 2024

2024

2023

2022

  • Sympathy for the translator: October 7 – December 10, 2022
  • CONJURING: 25 Years at the ICA: July 15 – September 25, 2022
  • A Fresh Greeting is Heard: July 15 – September 18, 2022
  • 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 27 – June 17, 2022
  • Visions for our Future; Echoes of our Past: Dianne Smith, Nyugen E. Smith, and Carl Joe Williams: March 26 – May 6, 2022
  • Poetics of Process: 2022 Maine College of Art & Design Alumni Triennial: January 28 – March 12, 2022
  • Kristin Cammermeyer: a novel ecosystem constructed with pseudo satisfiers: December 17, 2021 – January 9, 2022

2021

  • Monitor: Surveillance, Data, and the New Panoptic: October 1 – December 10, 2021
  • DOUBLE TROUBLE: July 8 – September 17, 2021
  • 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 15 – June 11, 2021
  • Sorry We Missed You: March 24 – April 30, 2021
  • Parallax/Geography: January 15 – March 14, 2021
  • Tory Fair: Portable Window: January 15 – March 14, 2021

2020

  • ACOUSTIC RESONANCE: October 2 – December 11, 2020
  • Straight Lines in Four Directions For Social Distancing (after Sol LeWitt): Yumi Janairo Roth: August 2020
  • Some Things We Can Do Together: Megan and Murray McMillan: July 8 – September 12, 2020
  • ...to unravel the bind: Maine College of Art & Design 2020 Faculty Triennial: January 17 – March 1, 2020
  • Jan Piribeck: The Qajaq Journey: December 17, 2019 – January 13, 2020

2010 – 2019

2019

  • DesignInquiry: Futurespective: October 4 – December 14, 2019
  • Darkness and the Light: July 12 – September 20, 2019
  • 2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 10 – June 8, 2019
  • Parasitic Honeyshoes | Visual Tensions | Letting Yourself Go: April 5 – 26, 2019
  • Drawing Now: January 17 – March 22, 2019

2018

  • Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks & Pathways: October 5 – December 14, 2018
  • Curious Nature: 2018 Alumni Triennial: August 3 – September 15, 2018
  • Tim Bavington: Rock & Roll Abstraction (Bob Crewe Gallery): July 13 – October 19, 2018
  • 2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 11 – June 8, 2018
  • You Never Know How You Look Through Other People's Eyes: March 8 – April 20, 2018
  • Off the Wall: January 17 – February 23, 2018

2017

  • Confabulations of Millennia: October 6 – December 8, 2017
  • American Genre: Contemporary Painting: July 20 – September 15, 2017
  • 2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 12 – June 9, 2017
  • VRAGE: April 26 – 28, 2017
  • UNLOADED: March 16 – April 14, 2017
  • Collective Actions II: February 1 – March 3, 2017

2016

  • Anguish: The Grave Misgivings of Remembrance: October 28, 2016 – January 14, 2017
  • In This Realm: October 6 – 21, 2016
  • Bounty: August 24 – September 29, 2016
  • Made in LA: July 1 – Sunday, July 31, 2016
  • Ann Hirsch: Sharing Love: July 1 – August 12, 2016
  • Ceramics Pop-up Shop: June 9 – June 19, 2016
  • Brothers, Some Good Times, and The Last Huraa: June 3 – June 5, 2016
  • 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 6 – May 27, 2016
  • Collective Actions: April 1 – April, 2016
  • MECA Through & Through: March 23, 2016
  • Tinderbox: January 11 – March 5, 2016

2015

  • Razzle Dazzle Sis Boom Bah: January 21 – April 5, 2015
  • East to East: June 5 – July 3, 2015
  • The Sound Closet
  • Thomas Moser Legacy in Wood: July 22 – September 20, 2015
  • Innocent Production: September 28 – October 5, 2015
  • Residual Utopia, Alumni Biennial 2015: October 9 – December 15, 2015
  • Fantastical Reality: December 21, 2015 – January 3, 2016
  • We Are What We Hide: June 2013 – June 2016

2014

  • Project _: August 21 – October 12, 2014
  • The Wrong Kind of Bars: August 21 – October 12, 2014
  • Rehearsal Space: Dance and Conversation: June 11 – August 3, 2014
  • 2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 9 – June 1, 2014
  • Bryan Graf: Moving Across the Interior: January 22 – April 6, 2014
  • Idea of North: February 22, 2014

2013

  • 2013 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition: November 7 – December 22, 2013
  • Allan Kaprow: How To Make A Happening: November 7 – December 22, 2013
  • Ardor: 2013 Alumni Biennial Juried Exhibition: August 24 – October 13, 2013
  • Kate Gilmore: Mind the Square: June 3 – August 4, 2013
  • Alex Da Corte: Fun Sponge: June 3 – August 4, 2013
  • Dan DenDanto and Frank DenDanto: Bump: January 23 – April 7, 2013
  • Ander Mikalson: A Score for Two Dinosaurs: January 23 – April 7, 2013
  • The Peninsula School: January 23 – April 7, 2013

2012

  • The World Over: 2012 MECA&D Faculty Exhibition: November 7 – December 22, 2012
  • MEGAWORDS: August 16 – October 6, 2012
  • Lisi Raskin + Kimberely Kay: MotorPark: June 13 – October 6, 2012
  • Bridgman & Packer: October 5 – 6th, 2012
  • The Art Department: Lazer Hotel: June 13 – August 5, 2012
  • Francis Cape: Utopian Benches: June 13 – August 5, 2012
  • 2012 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 10 – June 2, 2012
  • Consumption: April 17 – 19, 2012
  • Access to Tools: Publications from the Whole Earth Catalog, 1968 – 1974: January 25 – April 8, 2012
  • Michael Bell-Smith: January 25 – April 8, 2012

2011

  • A Perpetual Present: 2011 MECA&D Faculty Selects Exhibition: November 16 – December 23, 2011
  • Time-Lag Records: Listening Room: October 12 – 26, 2011
  • Miguel Calderón: Inverted Star / Poseídos: October 12 – 26, 2011
  • Rally: 2011 Maine College of Art & Design Alumni Exhibition: August 24 – October 9, 2011
  • Speak More Clearly: August 24 – October 9, 2011
  • Drawn to Disaster: June 22 – August 7, 2011
  • Project Space Videos: June 22 – Sunday, August 7, 2011
  • 2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 14 – June 12, 2011
  • Lili Reynaud-Dewar: Cléda's Chairs: April 26 – 29, 2011
  • FOREST: April 19 – 23, 2011
  • Fracturing the Burning Glass: Between Mirror and Meaning: January 26 – April 10 , 2011
  • ICA Collaboration with the Portland Pirates: March 1 – 6, 2011

2010

  • 2010 Faculty Exhibition: Vivaria Particula: November 17, 2010 – January 9, 2011
  • Mind Bending with the Mundane: September 1 – October 17, 2010
  • A Meticulous Ferment: June 23 – August 15, 2010
  • MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 7 – June 6, 2010
  • Exchange: January 20 – April 11, 2010

2000 – 2009

2009

  • Archaeology Above Ground: November 18 – December 20, 2009
  • aggregate: September 2 – October 18, 2009
  • Magnify: June 24 – August 16, 2009
  • 2009 MFA Thesis: May 9 – June 7, 2009
  • Manifold: March 25 – April 24, 2009
  • Twilight: January 21 – March 8, 2009

2008

  • Out There: The Mediated Landscape: November 19 – December 21, 2008
  • Ruminant: August 27 – October 19, 2008
  • Send: Conversations in Evolving Media: June 11 – August 10, 2008
  • 2008 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 10 – 24, 2008
  • 2008 Senior Index Exhibition: April 2 – April 27, 2008
  • 2008 Winter Exhibition Series: January 25 – March 16, 2008

2007

  • intervals: MFA Alumni Exhibtion: October 12 – 27, 2007
  • Maine College of Art & Design 33rd Annual Art Auction: November 9, 2007
  • Anthromorph Alumni Exhibition: August 29 – October 7, 2007
  • Corridor at Sea: The Performative Object: June 15 – August 19, 2007
  • Maine College of Art & Design MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 12 – 25, 2007
  • BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition: May 12 – 29, 2007

2006

  • Robert Indiana & MECA&D Prints
  • From Baja to Bar Harbor: Transnational Contemporary Art
  • The Body Eclectic: Selections from the RBC Dain Rauscher Collection
  • 2006 Faculty Exhibition

2005

  • Michael Queenland: Photographs, Sculptures and Shaker Classics
  • 2005 MFA in Studio Arts Faculty Exhibition
  • 2005 Senior Thesis Index
  • Back From Nature: The Sportsman Redux
  • 2005 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
  • 2005 Regional Scholastic Art Awards

2004

  • Living Green: Examining Sustainability
  • MECA&D Art Auction
  • Wenda Gu: Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium
  • 2004 Senior Thesis Exhibitions
  • Curators' Intuition
  • 2004 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
  • 2004 Regional Scholastic Art Awards

2003

  • MECA&D Alumni Exhibition
  • Art Auction
  • Skowhegan Faculty 2002 – 03
  • Senior Thesis Exhibition 2003
  • Sebastiao Salgado: Migrations-Humanity in Transition
  • 2003 Scholastic Art Awards
  • 2003 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition

2002

  • MECA&D Art Auction
  • William Pope.L: eRacism
  • Playground
  • 2002 Senior Thesis Exhibition
  • Terrain: Sculpture Today
  • 2002 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
  • 2002 Scholastic Art Awards

2001

  • Maine Contemporary Furniture
  • MECA&D Art Auction
  • Two Photographers
  • 2001 Maine College of Art & Design MFA Faculty Exhibition
  • Katarina Weslien, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ulf Rolloff
  • Domestic Culture: home in visual culture
  • 2001 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
  • DAY WITH(OUT) Art

2000

  • MECA Art Auction
  • Translation/Seduction/Displacement
  • Robert Farber: A Retrospective, 1984 – 1995
  • Senior Thesis Exhibition 2000
  • Beyond Decorum: The Photography of Iké Udé
  • Scholastic Art Awards
  • Congressional Art Awards
  • 2000 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition

Before 2000

1999

  • Rez Williams: Steel Walls and Waterlines
  • Eva Marco
  • The Art of Reading : Books and Non-Books
  • From the Centre to the Edge
  • Maine College of Art & Design Alumni Exhibition
  • Lucy Mitchell: Omnium Gatherum
  • Senior Thesis Exhibition 1999
  • 1999 Maine College of Art & Design BFA Exhibition
  • Maine High School Competition
  • 3 Installations
  • 1999 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition

1998

  • Do It
  • Tonee Harbert, Bradley McCallum,
  • Martha Rosler Lesley Dill, Judy LaBrasco, Susie Brandt
  • 1998 Senior Thesis Exhibition
  • 1998 Maine College of Art & Design BFA Exhibition
  • Maine High School Competition
  • David Thomas, Tom Friedman, Lucy White
  • 1998 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty
  • Uta Barth, Nancy Chunn, Anthony Caro
  • Zeke Berman, Harvey Quaytman,
  • Deborah Oropallo
  • Quiet in the Land
  • David Ireland
  • Flow Thru Out by Mierle Laderman Ukeles