In its 38th year, the Connect & Collect Art Auction and Exhibition remains one of the most anticipated art events in the Bay Area, featuring...

Meet the artists and bid on artworks in the Silent Auction.

Open to auction ticket holders only. First chance to view, bid, or "BUY IT NOW" on silent auction works. Champagne and brunch bites will be ...

Join us in the gallery for a behind-the-scenes peek into the ICA's 38th Annual Silent and Live Auctions through the eyes and mind of our Exe...

Join us for an exciting panel discussion on art collecting where you will begin to learn how to build and manage your art collection, where ...

Join us for Singing/Spinning with Taro Hattori, an artist talk with the artists featured in NextNewGames, and a print party with the Sanctua...

September's ICA Live! will feature an organized protest in conjunction with Kathy Aoki: Hello Kitty Monument.

Join us at the Hello Kitty Monument for an engaging performance by Kathy Aoki, Curator of the Museum of Historical Makeovers, in conjunction...

In this annual artist professional development program, leading curators, art dealers, and educators provide expert advice and insights in a...

Join us outside the ICA and in Parque de los Pobladores for a day of bicycle-related fun and festivities.

The bicycle is the most efficient form of transportation, and according to a recent study by Joint Venture and the Silicon Valley Bicycle Co...

NextNewGames will explore games beyond the space of play and enjoyment.

June's ICA Live! will feature a printing demonstration led by artists from the exhibition Art(work).

Learn to share your art practice on Social Media with ICA's very own ICA Online Content Manager and Communications Manager, Sarah Fullerton....

May's ICA Live! invites you to join O.M. France Viana for a night of social artistry and decadent desserts at the UBE TRADE: Exchange a fo...

Bring your bike to the ICA, and join artist Jenny Odell on a bike tour of the historic Guadalupe River.

Join us for a panel discussion in conjunction with Chris Eckert: Privacy Not Included.

April's ICA Live! will feature artist Lauren Baines.

March's ICA Live! will feature a musical performance by Lux Interna.

Join us for a panel discussion with the artists featured in Printstallations.

Back by popular demand and updated to reflect the impacts of the new tax bill! Tips and tricks for managing your artistic income. Hint: It's...

In conjunction with 'On Your Left', artist Taro Hattori invites you to participate in "Leitmotif," an ongoing participatory piece originally...

Art(work) presents an exhibition of local San Jose preparators. The artists collectively consider how their daytime job influences the final...

In his solo exhibition Chris Eckert: Privacy Not Included, Eckert will present site-specific works and sculptures that investigate the physi...

Elizabeth Ryono: Perra Linda is a small exhibition and fundraiser that will help support the exhibitions and public programs at the ICA. Eac...

Join us for a panel discussion with Erin Goodwin-Guerrero, Katherine Huffaker Jones, Tony May, Valerie Patten and Jeff Alan West to discuss ...

Join us for an exhibition walk through of Overture: The Art of Steve French and Encore: The Legacy of Steve French, with Opera San Jose perf...

Tips and tricks for managing your artistic income. Hint: It's more than just receipts. Join us for this informative professional development...

For ICA Live! in February, Scott Tooby will present his Sonic Mirror instruments throughout the ICA and ask for audience participation to ac...

Join us for December ICA Live! to engage with artist Carmina Eliason and her project Café Con Leche, a project that invites people to reflec...

In conjunction with Overture: The Work of Steve French, we are proud to honor French’s teaching legacy with an exhibition of work by his for...

Steve French (1934-2014) was a noted visual artist, scholar, teacher and tenacious advocate for the arts in San Jose until his death in 2014...

Julia Anne Goodman: Unearthed Nov. 13, 2016 — May. 31, 2017 Unearthed works consists ...

Using LED technology and custom electronics, Jim Campbell explores the connections of light, space and time.

Passage is composed of used coffee filters that have been dried, ironed, color treated and stitched together into organic forms.

The ICA is pleased to feature drawings by San Francisco-based artist Rebecca Haseltine in its two façade windows.

Bruce Conner: Somebody Else’s Prints is the first in-depth examination of the artist’s achievements as a printmaker in over a decade and fea...

In her first Bay Area exhibition, Colombia-based artist Leyla Cárdenas has created a site-specific installation at the ICA. For her installa...

Relics is a group exhibition that explores the consequences of today’s accelerated embrace of new technology as well as the political, socia...

Amy Ellingson: Iterations & Assertions is a solo exhibition of work by San Francisco-based artist Amy Ellingson. Ellingson's process involve...

A group exhibition that explores the relationship between art and technology through the use of wall projections, interactive installations,...

Artist Wendy Maruyama's celebrated large-scale sculptural installation honoring 120,000 Japanese- Americans interned during WWII.

Listen to powerful stories surrounding the issuance of Executive Order 9066.

This group exhibition, co-curated by Misako Mitsui, juxtaposes traditional and historical Japanese art and objects with selected contemporar...

In this large-scale solo exhibition of new kinetic sculptures and sound installations, Berlier continues her investigations and subtly humor...

Just Picked! California's freshest crop of emerging talent.

An exhibition of sculptural installations assembled from natural and man-made materials.

Parallax: An Apparent change in the direction of an object, caused by a change in observational position that provides a new line of sight [...

An immersive site-specific installation of collaged works on paper that draws on the language of maps to create imaginary landscapes that de...

An exhibition of exquisite mezzotint prints by this notable American-born, France-based artist.

The California premiere of the artist’s landmark 15-piece sculpture installation

Exhibition and site-specific installation of large-scale charcoal drawings.

A look at the impact of Latino and Asian cultures on California's visual landscape

City Beneath The City is an exhibition of artifacts from the original excavation of San Jose's Market Street Chinatown site.

Contemporary office culture examined, deconstructed, rearranged, and critiqued.

4 videos, 4 artists, 4 months

The California premiere of this large-scale, immersive installation

An installation in the ICA’s Front Windows by San Jose-based artist Emanuela Harris-Sintamarian.

Process and repetition in print and drawings.

An exhibition of paintings and works on paper.

The San Jose State University MFA Graduate Exhibition.

An exhibition of paintings by Santa Cruz-based artist Hanna Hannah.

A group exhibition that addressed ideas of scale through physical and conceptual explorations.

A large-scale sculptural installation by Portland-based artist Mike Rathbun.

A documentary short film by renowned American Designers Charles and Ray Eames.

A Retrospective Exhibition of Work by San Jose Artist Tony May

A unique print series that uses the artist's personal family photographs to rewrite history from her vantage point.

Inspired by the rich history and alchemic experimentation of obsolete photographic practices, the artists in this exhibition create images u...

An exhibition of vintage prints from the collection of Stephen and Connie Wirtz. Guest curated by David Pace.

An interactive installation presented in partnership with the 01SJ Art Biennial

The 6th Annual SJSU MFA Graduate Exhibition.

An immersive site-specific installation exploring ideas relating to shelter, memories and imagined spaces.

A life-sized paper replica of a home gym with famous fashion brand accessories. Work Out is a fantasy world of luxury goods including Chanel...

The Monotype Marathon is a print exhibition and fundraising event that features original works on paper created by some of the Bay Area's fi...

An exhibition of artwork by emerging and mid-career Bay Area artists who create unexpectedly nostalgic and poetic works using thread as thei...

A solo exhibition of fiber works created by San Jose-based artist Ted Fullwood who works in a variety of media including clay and mosaic. Fu...

Guest curated by Kathryn Funk, Afterlife is a group exhibition of works created to breathe new life into re-purposed materials and objects.

A solo exhibition by post-minimalist sculptor and installation artist Theodora Varnay Jones.

A solo exhibition featuring a large-scale installation, and multi-media prints and paintings by artist Christel Dillbohner. Referencing the ...

NextNew features work from emerging talent on the region's contemporary art scene. This year's show subtitled Green, surveys fresh perspecti...

5th Annual San Jose State University's (SJSU) MFA graduate exhibition.

A group exhibition that explores the relationship between art and technology through the use of wall projections, interactive installations,...

A group exhibition that explores the relationship between art and technology through the use of wall projections, interactive installations,...

Internationally acclaimed sculptor's 25-year retrospective of figurative relief sculptures in exclusive Bay Area Presentation

The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is excited to present The Painted Room, a visually stimulating installation by San Francisc...

Medusa is an ornate and large-scale chandelier by Australian artist Timothy Horn.

An exhibition featuring the 2005-2007 recipients of the Eureka Fellowship Award

The 14th annual Monotype Marathon is a rewarding joint venture in printmaking that benefits artists, art patrons, the arts community, and th...

Brendan Lott's solo show Memories I'll Never Have challenges notions of art and technology, authorship, globalization and out-sourcing in ou...

The 4th Annual San Jose State University's (SJSU) MFA graduate exhibition

The work in this exhibition needs multiple audiences, including those who participate in the creation of the work and those who witness art ...

The Space Between brings together minimal, op art (optical art) and geometric abstract works that explore the very process of looking. By pa...

This exhibition marks the first comprehensive presentation of Doug Glovaski's work during the last 17 years. Glovaski's large-scale, intense...

The Landscape of War exhibition illustrates the complex politics of war and our relationship to it.

Though the eyes of these twelve women and one six year old girl, the exhibition reflects some of the harsh realities that face civilian wome...

Liten Gygr tells the strange and sugar-induced story of the last giantess and her misadventures with a lovesick god, a mango and a unicorn.

In this window installation, titled Fallen, a grid of transparent resin bricks glows with fluid forms of birds suspended inside of them. Eac...

Mitra Fabian works with scotch tape, glue or discarded window blinds to create "Organisms" that straddle the line between beautiful and grot...

The ICA's annual exhibition features the next new talent on the horizon. This year's artists have been chosen by faculty members from MFA pr...

This summer the ICA will present the 3rd annual San Jose State University Master of Fine Art Exhibition.

The inaugural exhibition in the new ICA entitled Home Sweet Home, features 14 artists who examine the notion of home, not merely as a physic...

John Slepian creates digital installations that investigate what it is that makes us feel human. His simplified forms exhibit identifiable g...

In her video, Asya Reznikov writes the names of the continents in 23 minutes resulting in a drawing of the world. Reznikov's work explores h...

A site-specific installation by Darren Waterston

An exhibition of the 2005-06 MFA graduates of San Jose State University.

In Suspended Series, Amy Hicks uses the automobile as a way of moving the viewer through contemporary structures and space. The familiar ter...

The ICA proudly presents an exhibition of works on paper and books by Gustavo Ramos Rivera, This show surveys his work from the past 25 year...

The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is proud to present Hair Raising, an exhibition featuring art made of and about human hair.