Rebecca Morris is curated by Jamillah James, Manilow Senior Curator, MCA Chicago, with Caroline Ellen Liou, ICA LA Curatorial Assistant.
The exhibition is also generously funded by the Pasadena Art Alliance and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, as well as contributions from Marla and Jeffrey Michaels and John Morace and Tom Kennedy.
ICA LA is supported by the Curator’s Council, Fieldwork, and 1717 Collective.
Jamillah James is the Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and was the Senior Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) from 2017-2022. James was the co-curator of Soft Water, Hard Stone, the 2021 edition of the New Museum Triennial (with Margot Norton). Previously she was Assistant Curator at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, organizing exhibitions at the museum and Art + Practice, an arts and social services nonprofit in Leimert Park, Los Angeles and held curatorial positions at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Queens Museum, in addition to independently curating exhibitions and programs at various alternative and artist-run spaces throughout the US and Canada. James has contributed texts to Artforum, Frieze, The International Review of African American Art, and various institutional exhibition catalogues.
Recent exhibitions at ICA LA include Sara Cwynar: Apple Red/Grass Green/Sky Blue (2022); Harold Mendez: Let us gather in a flourishing way (2020); Stanya Kahn: No Go Backs (2020); No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake (2019); and This Has No Name, the first US museum survey of B. Wurtz (2018). She has curated several thematic group exhibitions, including The Inconstant World (ICA LA, 2021); A Shape That Stands Up (Art + Practice, Los Angeles, 2016); and sisters and brothers (The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, 2014), as well as solo presentations of Lucas Blalock, Sarah Cain, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Alex Da Corte, Abigail DeVille, rafa esparza, Maryam Jafri, Ann Greene Kelly, Simone Leigh, and Michele O’Marah.