NEW YORK, NY (March 14, 2024)—The International Center of Photography (ICP) is pleased to announce upcoming programs and exhibitions for the 50th anniversary season. Throughout the remainder of 2024, ICP’s exhibitions and programs will explore ideas that expand our understanding of photography as a medium, discuss the works that redefine and introduce us to new perspectives, and honor the unsung and emerging pioneers in the field. Join us for an eye-opening, engaging series of events as we celebrate the past and shape the present and future of ICP together.
ICP’s current exhibitions on view through May 6th are ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845-2019, which includes over 170 works and is the first major look at ICP’s collection in nearly 25 years, and David Seidner, Fragments: 1977-99, the first significant retrospective of an important and overlooked artist of the 1980s and 1990s.
ICP’s upcoming 2024 exhibitions and programs include:
Summer
Yto Barrada: Part Time Abstractionist
May 22–September 2
This summer, ICP will present a solo exhibition of work by internationally acclaimed multi-disciplinary artist, Yto Barrada. In Part Time Abstractionist, Barrada’s many decades of investigations into photography and abstraction will be explored, beginning in the early 2000s through the present. These two modes of working are consistent throughout Bararda’s work and offer an insight into the ways she examines the social, political, and industrial structures that have and continue to shape society.
Yto Barrada: Part Time Abstractionist is the first exhibition in a new series focusing on alumni of ICP’s school. Barrada graduated from ICP’s Full-Time Documentary program in 1996.
2024 ICP Recent Graduates Exhibition
May 18–September 2
The first exhibition by recent graduates from The School at ICP to run for a full exhibition cycle, this show includes work by more than 70 students from over 25 countries, from Argentina to Belarus and Thailand to Yemen. On view will be images from graduates of four of ICP’s education programs: the full-time, onsite One-Year Certificate Programs in both Creative Practices and Documentary Practice and Photojournalism, the 2023 One-Year Certificate class from the Documentary Practice: Visual Storytelling Online program, and the Teen Academy Imagemakers program.
ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845–2019
Continuing through January 6, 2025
ICP’s collections exhibition celebrating the institution’s 50th anniversary continues through the summer in a condensed form, with approximately 70 works from the collection on view. The images presented will celebrate ICP’s history and the history of photography tracing the development of the medium and photography’s impact on culture and history.
Fall
We Are Here: Scenes from the Streets
September 27, 2024–January 6, 2025
We Are Here, on view at ICP this fall, will spotlight street photography from over 30 international photographers, including Devin Allen, Shoichi Aoki, Farnaz Damnabi, Debrani Das, Romuald Hazoumè, Youcef Krache, Josué Rivas, Randa Shaath, Jamel Shabazz, Trevor Stuurman, Alexey Titarenko, and Nontsikelelo Veleko.
Through the work of these intergenerational and geographically disparate artists, We Are Here encourages an expansive re-viewing of “street photography.” It opens up important discussions on how “the street” and public space are places of community, joy, and self-expression as well as advocacy, changing landscapes, and social dynamics as seen through the photographer’s lens.
Select 2024 Programming
The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series
The Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series presents one-hour live events featuring scholars and curators in conversation with renowned photographers who champion social change through photography, employ exciting alternative and emerging practices, or ask critical questions about the form.
This year’s Spring Season features
Teju Cole with Zoë Hopkins (March 11),
Pete Souza with Dawn Porter (March 20),
Christina Fernandez with Katherine Bussard (April 3),
Shirin Neshat with Marina Abramovic and Joan Jonas (April 30).
ICP Symposium—Seeing Meaning: From Pictographs to AI
March 19
11 AM–7 PM
The International Center of Photography is pleased to present Seeing Meaning: From Pictographs to AI, a day-long convening organized by Marina Chao, with the generous support of a Curatorial Research Fellowship Grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Participating speakers include: Bojana Coklyat (artist), Jennifer Daniel (artist, chair of the Emoji Subcommittee for the Unicode Consortium); Shannon Ebner (artist); JJJJJerome Ellis (artist); Sarah Gephart (graphic designer), Anna Gerber (writer and creative consultant); Nicholas Muellner (artist); Haytham Nawar (artist and Associate Professor, The American University in Cairo); Yotam Ophir (Assistant Professor of Communication, University at Buffalo); Fred Ritchin (author, curator, and Dean Emeritus of the School at ICP); Finnegan Shannon (artist); Catherine Taylor (writer and editor); Maria Varkanitsa (Research Assistant Professor, Aphasia Research Laboratory, Boston University)
Also featuring a performance by artist Chloë Bass.
40th Annual Infinity Awards 2024
April 10
6–10 PM
Tisch Skylights at The Shed
The ICP Infinity Awards honor and celebrate major achievements in photography and visual art. This year’s highly anticipated event coincides with ICP’s 50th Anniversary—a milestone anniversary celebrating a lasting legacy in photographic excellence. The event is ICP’s largest fundraiser and benefits its full range of education and exhibition programs.
This year, the event recognizes four talented photographers who have expanded the boundaries of the medium as well as a philanthropist who has annually supported the field.
2024 Infinity Award Categories and Recipients:
Trustees Award: Caryl S. Englander
Lifetime Achievement: Shirin Neshat
Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism: Lynsey Addario
Contemporary Photography and New Media: Wendy Red Star
Commercial and Editorial Photography: Renell Medrano