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Director of Development
The Director of Development is responsible for planning, developing, directing, and executing a comprehensive and successful fundraising program for the museum, consistent with ICA LA’s mission, vision, and goals. This position reports directly to the Executive Director.
As a key member of the senior staff, the Director of Development will provide active, collaborative leadership in conceiving and articulating fundraising strategies, programs, and goals to raise the museum’s annual operating budget, as well as supporting fundraising aspects of ICA LA’s capital campaign to advance the museum’s long-term strategic priorities. The Director of Development will integrate advancement efforts with all museum functions, including exhibition and education programming, financial administration, membership programs, and communications. Key priorities are expanding ICA LA’s donor base—with a particular focus on direct cultivation and solicitation of individual donors, identifying and cultivating the next generation of major donors; expanding support through institutional and corporate giving; and increasing brand recognition and revenue goals for the museum’s benefit events.
The Director of Development also oversees ICA LA’s giving councils— Fieldwork Council and Curator’s Council—and its membership program. The Director of Development manages and motivates a team of development staff who are responsible for individual giving, institutional giving, corporate sponsorship, fundraising events, membership, and database management. The ideal candidate for this job will be an accomplished fundraiser and leader who is passionate about contemporary art; deeply knowledgeable about the philanthropic communities in Los Angeles, and beyond, and major foundations that support art and culture; and skilled at making a strong case for both restricted and unrestricted support.
Hwa Records is a collective of Korean diasporic artists and healers—Roger Kim, Saewon Oh, C. Ryu, and Kayla Tange—exploring Hwa 화 - which translates and mistranslates to fire, anger, repressed emotions, flower, and vase.
Since 2021, the mission of Hwa Records is to create community space for diasporic Koreans to gather and process stresses from generational displacement through workshops and performances. Developed in response to the lack of cultural frameworks for addressing emotional needs, Hwa Records creates a safe space for participants to process and release ancestral hwa through communal, cathartic, somatic and creative practices. This task is vital to rupturing the cycle of history, to exorcising ghosts, and building a livable future.
Hwa Records has performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Blue Ribbon Garden at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and has received funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Studio for Creative Inquiry and more.
Tina Calderon, Thanh Mai K'Taaya, Karin “Lisa” Atkinson, Laura Copelin, The Chapter House, Audrey Medrano, Jessica Fuquay, Regina Lee, Kayla Tange and Roger Kim of Hwa Records, Tongva land, the stone people, plant people, tree, fire, earth, metal, and the waters.
Julie Tolentino (she/they interchangeably) is a Filipinx-Salvadoran artist whose performance/installation practice explores the interstitial spaces of race, gender, relationality, and the archive. Expanding notions of durational, erotic practices, site, and movement, their collaborative projects include performance, installation, video, devised objects, scent, soundscapes, and texts drawn from essential outside learning spaces of activism, alterity, advocacy, loss, and care giving.
Projects include the 2022 Whitney Biennial, with Ivy Kwan Arce with a public program focused on the work of the What Would An HIV Doula Do? collective, Visual AIDS Duets book series with Kia LaBeija; Movements in Blue with WWHIVDD?; Archive in Dirt 2018, the Lesbian AIDS Project Women’s Safer Sex Handbook with Cynthia Madansky; and The Sky Remains The Same, a lifetime body-as-archive project (since 2006.)
Awards include MacDowell Residencies (2026, 2019); ICA LA Artist-in-Residence (2025-6); Guggenheim Fellowsh ...
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Getting here
By Car: The ICA LA is accessible by the 5 and 101 freeways at Seventh Street, and 10 freeway at Santa Fe Ave.
Parking: Free onsite parking is available at ICA LA (during normal operating hours). Usage of our parking lot is permitted only for the duration of your visit.
Street and lot parking near the ICA LA is limited. Additional paid parking is available across the street, and behind the museum at the AVA Arts District apartments. View the ICA LA Parking Map for parking options.
Transit and Cycling: We strongly encourage the use of ride-sharing services, public transit, or cycling. To plan your trip by public transit, use Metro Trip Planner.
Some suggested routes: MTA bus lines 60, 62, and 720 at 7th/Decatur, or 16, 18, 53, 62, or 720 bus lines at 6th/Central. MTA Gold line at Little Tokyo/Arts District (followed by a 1.2 mile walk south on Alameda or 4 min. car ride)
Cyclists, plan your visit to ICA LA using LADOT or Metro bike maps. Metro Bike Share is also a great way to get around downtown.
Language Access
Please visit the front desk to access our large-print English and Spanish exhibition guides during any part of your visit. Additional exhibition support in ASL is available on our Youtube Channel.
All exhibition introductory texts are shows in English and Spanish.
What to expect
Check out our Exhibitions to learn about what is currently on view in the galleries, and our Calendar to learn about upcoming free public programs.
Code of conduct
Visitors and staff are encouraged to stay home if they are feeling sick with a fever, cough, or respiratory illness. Hand sanitizer is available at the entrance and front desk. We encourage you to leave large bags at home. Children must be supervised by an adult at all times.
We condemn violence, bullying, or hate speech based on race, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or ability. Any inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated at ICA LA and we reserve the right to ask patrons to leave the premises.
We look forward to welcoming you to ICA LA and ensuring a safe, enjoyable visit for our patrons. Our staff is here to help and respond to any questions or concerns you may have. Enjoy your visit!
Accessibility
ICA LA’s building has one ADA parking space available directly in front of the museum, please call (213) 928-0833 to reserve if needed. Our entrance, restrooms, lobby, and exhibition spaces are all wheelchair accessible.
For accommodations for any public program, call (213) 928-0833 to speak with our front desk.
Please note that some works on view may contain loud noise, flashing lights, low lighting, or other elements.
Contact us
Address: 1717 E 7th St Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 928-0833 Email: info@theicala.org
Curatorial: exhibition@theicala.org Education: learning@theicala.org
The program responds to a moment marked by deepening neocolonialism and mass desensitization to violent, preventable death, including recent spikes in HIV cases and deaths. Driven by cuts to international aid programs like USAID and PEPFAR, this resurgence reveals how access to care remains shaped by broader systems of U.S. and Western power that determine whose lives are protected and whose deaths are allowed to pass in silence.
seeds in a dying colony is an exploration of how systems organized around abandonment and premature death produce disconnection from the self and disruptions of memory, history, and cultural continuity. At the same time, movement, ritual, and beauty emerge as forms of recalibration, methods of reclaiming the body and reorienting toward life within conditions designed to constrain it.
The title of the program draws from the work of psychiatrist and political philosopher Frantz Fanon, whose writings on colonial violence and the racialized psyche have been taken up by some AIDS historians and theorists to understand how global health systems, formed through colonial rule, ultimately determine the order, quality, and conditions under which people receive healthcare, while also overwriting indigenous knowledge of healthy, embodied living. Rather than isolating HIV as a singular issue, seeds in a dying colony gestures toward the tension between systems of domination that appear enduring and the latent power and ancestral knowledge that remains in their undoing.
The artists in this program were selected by a jury of filmmakers who each selected an artist to mentor through their production process. The mentors of the 2026 program include Amil Shivji, Hiura Fernandes, Ésery Mondesir, and J Triangular.
Visual AIDS is a New York-based non-profit that utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.
Public Programs
Public programs at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles support our mission in sparking the pleasure the discovery and challenging the way we see and experience the world, ourselves, and each other.
You can also watch and listen to past lectures, discussions, and performances in the archive of public programs below..
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Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Installation view, J&L Books: Reading Room, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 5–August 31, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane / ICA LA.
Hwa Records is a collective of Korean diasporic artists and healers—Roger Kim, Kayla Tange, Saewon Oh, and C. Ryu—exploring Hwa 화 - which translates and mistranslates to fire, anger, repressed emotions, flower, and vase.
The mission of Hwa Records is to create community space for diasporic Koreans to gather and process stresses from generational displacement. Developed in response to the rise of anti-Asian violence and the lack of cultural frameworks for addressing specific emotional needs, Hwa Records creates a safe space for participants to process and release ancestral Hwa through communal, cathartic, and creative practices.
Hwa Records has performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Blue Ribbon Garden at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and has received funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Studio for Creative Inquiry and more.