Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami's Collection

Fire Figure Fantasy is ICA Miami’s first major publication to showcase its permanent collection, with a focus on recent acquisitions.

Since its founding in 2014, ICA Miami has established itself as a singular voice in artistic stewardship and research with a collection that champions leading emerging and established artists. Local and national voices are represented in dialogue with some of the most experimental global practices, further enriched by the dynamic context of Miami. Cultivating substantive dialogue between newly commissioned works and works from the last fifty years, the collection is a living testament to the museum’s mission to advance the exchange of art and ideas. 

Fire Figure Fantasy revolves around important focal points of ICA Miami’s collection. Artists working in a wide range of mediums, including McArthur Binion, Lauren Halsey, Rashid Johnson and Martine Syms, draw on conceptualist strategies to critically explore structures that perpetuate injustice. In works by Andra Ursuța, Louise Bonnet, Christina Quarles and Avery Singer, themes of identity, community, and technology are drawn out through explorations of the body, materiality and form. Works by Vivian Caccuri, Tau Lewis, Vaughn Spann and Henry Taylor contend with some of the most pressing issues of our time, while works by Hernan Bas, Tomm El-Saieh and Jared McGriff, among others, reflect the artistic production of Miami artists that the museum has long championed. Fire Figure Fantasy foregrounds artists’ voices with over 100 first-person texts and two roundtables with some of today’s most significant emerging practitioners. Featuring over 300 illustrations, the publication serves as an important reference for art enthusiasts and scholars alike.