Announcing ICA Miami’s 2026 Exhibition Program
First Solo U.S. Museum Exhibitions for Manuel Chavajay, Harmony Korine, Sheroanawë Hakihiiwë, Diego Singh, and Manoucher Yektai
First Expansive Survey of Carroll Dunham in More than 25 Years
Large-scale Stairwell Commission by Naudline Pierre
MIAMI, May 12, 2026 — Boundary-breaking artists across generations, media, and geographies are the spotlight of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami)’s 2026–27 year of exhibitions. Featuring works from the 1940s to present day, the program builds on ICA Miami’s more than decade-long focus on generating dialogues between historical works and the most exciting global practices taking shape today. The exhibitions reinforce ICA Miami’s distinct role in deepening appreciation and scholarship for rising artists and those meriting renewed attention, with numerous exhibitions serving as artists’ first U.S. museum presentations. Three debut U.S. solo museum exhibitions open this spring for Miami-based multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Harmony Korine, Tz’utujil Maya artist Manuel Chavajay, and Iranian artist and poet Manoucher Yektai — together offering a multifaceted perspective on the state of global modernism. Complementing these solo presentations is an expansive collection exhibition featuring four distinctive positions on the museum’s permanent collection including recent acquisitions that have not yet been on view at the museum. The exhibition showcases the diversity and depth of one of the most robust and active acquisition programs in the United States.
The fall season follows with the first museum survey in 25 years for Carroll Dunham, opening timed to Miami Art Week and bringing renewed attention to the work of this influential American painter. Reflecting the deep connections of the museum and its audiences to Latin America, ICA Miami also presents the first U.S. solo museum exhibitions for indigenous Yanomami (Venezuela) artist Sheroanawë Hakihiiwë, presented in partnership with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, and for the rising Miami-based Argentinian-born painter Diego Singh.
“ICA Miami is dedicated to leading the global conversation and generating significant new scholarship and interdisciplinary dialogues across generations of art history, including some of the most important artists working today,” said Alex Gartenfeld, ICA Miami’s Irma and Norman Braman Artistic Director. “In addition to continuing our history of creating first U.S. museum platforms for both rising and influential artists, our 2026-27 season brings to the fore voices from across our globally representative collection. We are also proud to highlight pivotal Miami-based artists Harmony Korine and Diego Singh, reflecting our commitment to championing our city as a center of cultural production and a source for scholarship and education.”
SPRING 2026 SEASON
Perfect Nonsense: Harmony Korine
April 15 – October 18, 2026
Marking the first U.S. museum survey for the legendary and multifaceted work of Harmony Korine (b. 1973), the exhibition traces the full arc of the Miami-based artist and renowned filmmaker’s career, bringing together over 75 works and situating his practice within a continuum of image-making that collapses distinctions between cinema, contemporary art, and popular culture. Since entering the public consciousness at 19 after writing the screenplay for the 1995 generation-defining feature Kids, Korine has continually expanded the language of cinema while redefining notions of the counterculture and exploring novel image-making technologies. Simultaneously, Korine’s activities have crossed the boundaries of discipline and form. Perfect Nonsense captures the expansive worlds of painting, photography, collage, zines, and drawing that he has created since adolescence, offering a new contextualization of his practice and its relationship with the rich contemporary culture of Miami and the American South.
Harmony Korine: Perfect Nonsense is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, and curated by Alex Gartenfeld, Irma and Norman Braman Artistic Director and Gean Moreno, Director of the Art + Research Center at ICA Miami, with curatorial research assistance from Donna Honarpisheh, Associate Curator, Art + Research.
Four Rooms: Selections from ICA Miami’s Permanent Collection
April 30 – October 4, 2026
“Four Rooms” assembles a suite of four exhibitions comprising works from the museum’s permanent collection, each organized by one of the museum’s curators, with a focus on recent acquisitions. The resulting presentations, which take the form of vignettes, demonstrate both the diversity and the historical depth of ICA Miami’s collection. The exhibition is a continuation of the museum’s ongoing approach to generating dialogue between newly commissioned works and works from the last 50 years and is a testament to the museum’s mission to advance the exchange of art and ideas. Together, these works offer a lens through which to consider the shifting contours of artistic production within an increasingly interconnected global context.
Spirit Matter, curated by Donna Honarpisheh, Associate Curator, Art + Research, brings together diverse experimentations with material that transform matter into portals of spiritual encounter across global contexts. In an exhibition dedicated to grisaille, Gean Moreno, Director of ICA Miami’s Art + Research Center, presents works that meditate on the body and its traces, where presence, memory, and identity emerge through black-and-white photography and subtle performative gestures. The museum’s Associate Curator, Amanda Morgan, invites viewers to reflect on intimacy and one’s relationship to the spaces of everyday life. Her exhibition brings together works that feature emotionally laden domestic objects and built environments that imply presence without depicting the human form. Finally, Alex Gartenfeld, Artistic Director, highlights a concise presentation of the museum’s wide-ranging examples of minimalism, including a recent major acquisition of a work by Miriam Schapiro.
Manuel Chavajay: Xojowi ja qa tee ruachulew (Mother Earth Dances)
April 30 – November 22, 2026
The first solo institutional exhibition of the Tz’utujil Maya artist Manuel Chavajay (b. 1982), presents a selection of works produced over the past three years, including paintings made with marine oil and featuring traditional embroidery patterns depicting the landscape around Lake Atitlán, intervened earthenware pots, and remnants of site-specific performances. Together, the works focus on two important themes that have developed in Chavajay’s work: a growing concern over the increased pollution of Lake Atitlán in the Guatemalan Highlands, where the Tz’utujil live, and an ongoing meditation on the connection of the land to the cosmos, as understood in Tz’utujil ancestral knowledge. Land — including Lake Atitlán — in the context of his work is understood not as a resource to extract or as an inert ground but as a core aspect of Indigenous identity, tracing historical connections, cultural practices, and ancestral legacies.
Manuel Chavajay: Xojowi ja qa tee ruachulew is presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, and curated by Gean Moreno, Director of the Art + Research Center at ICA Miami.
Manoucher Yektai: The Stranger and the Tree
April 30 – November 22, 2026
Featuring some 30 oil paintings by Iranian artist and poet Manoucher Yektai (b. 1921, Tehran; d. 2019), this exhibition is the artist’s first solo U.S. museum presentation. A founding member of the New York School and major figure in abstract expressionism, Yektai is known for his richly impastoed canvases, which move between still life, landscape, portrait, and color field. This exhibition, titled after a 2005 poem by the artist, traces four distinct series created between 1948 and 1963, revealing Yektai’s development from surrealist-inflected abstraction to his signature gestural abstraction. The artist’s work charts a unique course in art history, drawing on Persian rugs, Iranian flora, calligraphic forms, domestic table settings, and mystical poetry. The results fuse Iranian and American visual vocabularies, Parisian modernism, and gestural painting, articulating a distinctly transnational vision.
Manoucher Yektai: The Stranger and the Tree is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, and curated by Donna Honarpisheh, Associate Curator, Art + Research Center at ICA Miami.
FALL 2026 SEASON
Sheroanawë Hakihiiwë: We Will All Be Together
November 19, 2026 – March 28, 2027
The first solo exhibition in a major U.S. institution by artist Sheroanawë Hakihiiwë (b. 1971, Sheroana, Venezuela), is presented by ICA Miami in partnership with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, and will showcase over 50 works, including new commissions, an animated film, and a site-specific installation. Hakihiiwë, who lives in the Poripori community of Venezuela, draws inspiration from the traces and forms of Amazonian flora and fauna, particularly the motifs of the forest in which he lives. Through his practice, Hakihiiwë builds new visual languages and sites of memory by recording his cultural heritage, ancestral tales, and ties to the environment. This project reflects the Fondation Cartier’s and ICA Miami’s shared commitment to representing the significance of the natural world and ecology in their programs.
Sheroanawë Hakihiiwë: We Will All Be Together is curated by Gean Moreno, Curator and Director of the Knight Foundation Art + Research Center at ICA Miami, and Michela Alessandrini, Curator at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
Naudline Pierre
November 19, 2026 – November 2027
Naudline Pierre will present a new work created for ICA Miami’s three-story stairwell, expanding her signature depictions of encounters between the earthly and otherworldly onto a monumental scale. Throughout her multimedia practice, the Brooklyn-based contemporary artist draws from fantasy and iconography to conjure alternate worlds, engaging with mythological and art historical iconographies. Swirling with jewel-toned texture, her works center ecstasy, devotion, and tenderness in epic scenes that generate space for rescue and healing. The stairwell commission will debut this fall, with additional details forthcoming.
Naudline Pierre is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, and curated by Donna Honarpisheh, Associate Curator of Art + Research.
Carroll Dunham
December 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027
The first major museum survey of American artist Carroll Dunham (b. 1949) in over 25 years features more than 40 paintings tracing the evolution of his career. The artist, who lives and works between New York and Connecticut, has exhibited his work globally, and his drawings and paintings are featured in major institutional collections worldwide. The upcoming retrospective illuminates the artist’s playful approach to figure and form, which often references the art historical canon to reflect on human psychology and the construction of thought.
Carroll Dunham is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, and curated by Alex Gartenfeld, Irma and Norman Braman Artistic Director and Gean Moreno, Director of the Art + Research Center at ICA Miami, with curatorial research assistance from Donna Honarpisheh, Associate Curator, Art + Research.
Diego Singh
December 1, 2026 – April 25, 2027
ICA Miami presents the first U.S. museum exhibition of Miami-based artist Diego Singh, featuring more than a dozen works spanning the last two decades, alongside several new large-scale paintings. The exhibition foregrounds Singh’s material-driven, psychologically penetrating approach to abstraction. His canvases are often built through as many as 30 layers of oil and acrylic paint applied over the course of months or years. Within these densely worked surfaces, Singh constructs paintings in which signs, words, and coded references hover between recognition and abstraction. Drawing upon sources as varied as advertising, popular culture, art history, and the visual rhetoric of political violence and authoritarianism of his native Argentina, Singh’s vividly chromatic compositions examine how meaning is produced, obscured, and continually re-read. A publication will accompany the exhibition.
Diego Singh is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, and curated by Alex Gartenfeld, Irma and Norman Braman Artistic Director and Amanda Morgan, Associate Curator.
Image captions (top to bottom): Harmony Korine, Shirley’s Temple, 2016, watercolor on linen. Craig Robins Collection; Ming Fay, Money Tree Floating Vine 1, 1990s/2025. Collection of Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto Mexico City / New York. Photo by Zach Hyman. © Ming Fay Estate; Manuel Chavajay, Untitled (hay días que se acercan las montañas y los volcanes), 2025, oil, spray, and charcoal on canvas, 140 × 200 cm. Photo Bruno Lopes, Courtesy of Pedro Cera; Manoucher Yektai, Untitled, 1948, Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 ⅛ in. (61 x 46.1 cm) 24 ⅞ x 19 ⅛ in. (63.2 x 48.6 cm) framed. Courtesy of Manoucher Yektai Estate; Sheroanawë Hakihiiwë, Puu motho shipe [stinging vines / bejucos urticantes], 2023. Acrylic paint on paper, 23.6 × 31.5 inches (60 × 80 cm). Artwork © Sheroanawë Hakihiiwë. Collection Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain; Naudline Pierre. Photo by Molly Matalon; Carroll Dunham, Flood (Deep Blue), 1995-1996, mixed media on canvas, 69 x 102 in. (175 x 259 cm). Rachel and Jean-Pierre Lehmann Collection; Diego Singh, In my Yellow Eye (Sin Nombre 3), 2022-2024, 96 x 72 inches, Oil on linen. Photography: Armando Vaquer. Courtesy of CENTRAL FINE and Luhring Augustine Gallery.
Sustainability Commitment
ICA Miami is committed to reducing its climate footprint by adopting best practices for sustainability and partnering with organizations that focus on conservation. As part of this effort, ICA Miami has adopted sustainable shipping methods for all exhibitions and implements carbon offsets for select major exhibitions. ICA Miami is also the first museum in Florida to support the use of renewable energy and the growth of the sector. The museum matches 100% of its electricity consumption through the procurement of Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). In 2020, the museum was among the original grantees for the first Frankenthaler Foundation funding for sustainability efforts in the arts.
About the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
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 in 2017, and in 2024 announced its expansion with the acquisition of a second site on the same block at 23 NE 41st Street in the Miami Design District, set to open in 2027. 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 41st Street, Miami, Florida, 33137. For more information, visit www.icamiami.org or follow the museum on Instagram and explore the ICA Miami Channel for inside looks at ICA Miami exhibitions and the practices of the most exciting artists working today.
