Little Tokyo & the ICA

Destiny Is a Rose presents more than 80 works from the collection of Eileen Harris Norton, marking fifty years since her first acquisition in 1976. Featuring paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and performance materials by artists including Kerry James Marshall, David Hammons, Lorraine O’Grady, and Amy Sherald, the exhibition traces the development of her collection and its sustained support of women artists and artists of color.

Feb 23 - Aug 16

Así Sea/So Be It is an installation by Sanchez centered on more than 200 wax rubbings taken from her grandparents’ former home in East Los Angeles. Created collaboratively with family members, the works record architectural surfaces, interior details, and garden elements. The installation considers domestic space as an archive shaped by loss, memory, and embodied acts of preservation.

Apr 4 - Aug 23

Founded five decades ago, Semiotext(e) introduced French theory to American readers and grew into one of the country's most influential independent presses, publishing theory, fiction, satire, sexuality, science fiction, and confessions across a deliberately curated list. On view at ICA LA, Desert Islands is a visual archipelago of writers' quotes from the catalogue, alongside Dream Machine (2026), a sculpture/collage by Hedi El Kholti honoring Brion Gysin and the 1978 Nova Convention celebrating William S. Burroughs.

Apr 4 - Aug 23

Speaking in Tongues is a group exhibition bringing together international and intergenerational contemporary artists who engage art as a conduit to spiritual experience. The works address ritual, embodiment, language, and translation, expanding ideas of the sacred beyond institutional religion. Centering Indigenous and diasporic perspectives, the exhibition considers spirituality as a means of memory, continuity, and collective connection across cultures and histories. Featuring work by Marwa Abdul-Rahman, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Ron Athey and Carmina Escobar, Belkis Ayón, Raven Chacon, Jesse Chun, Asher Hartman in collaboration with Jasmine Orpilla, iris yirei hu, Hanna Hur, Việt Lê, Karen Lofgren, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Na Mira and lexi welch, Senga Nengudi, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Aki Onda, Lydia Ourahmane, Fazal Rizvi, Carlos Villa, and Luis Fernando Zapata.

Apr 4 - Aug 23

The Generative Universe spans more than three decades of Keith Tyson’s paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media works. Originally trained as an engineer, Tyson’s foundational conviction is that the universe operates as a single generative system—a constantly shifting network in which all forms arise, transform and dissolve. Through chemical processes, mathematical models, meditative painting, biological structures and handmade electronic devices, Tyson invites viewers to consider the mysterious universal processes through which reality, and our consciousness within it, come into being.

May 28 - Aug 16

A group exhibition at Nicodim's downtown Los Angeles gallery, May 23 – July 25, 2026, featuring Jeanine Brito, June Canedo de Souza, Rae Klein, Ciprian Muresan, Teresa Murta, Moffat Takadiwa, and Ecaterina Vrana. Exploring ritual, atmosphere, and the afterlife of images, the show unfolds as a collective invocation shaped by memory, ornament, folklore, and emotional residue — humid, nocturnal, and slightly uncanny, spanning painting, graphite drawings, and sculptural wall works.

May 23 - Jul 25