- CONJURING: 25 Years at the ICA: July 15 – September 25, 2022
- A Fresh Greeting is Heard: July 15 – September 18, 2022
- 2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 27 – June 17, 2022
- Visions for our Future; Echoes of our Past: Dianne Smith, Nyugen E. Smith, and Carl Joe Williams: March 26 – May 6, 2022
- Poetics of Process: 2022 Maine College of Art & Design Alumni Triennial: January 28 – March 12, 2022
- Kristin Cammermeyer: a novel ecosystem constructed with pseudo satisfiers: December 17, 2021 – January 9, 2022
The Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design features innovative exhibitions that showcase new perspectives and trends in contemporary art. Located in stunning galleries in our landmark Porteous Building, the ICA at MECA&D presents cutting edge work by local, national, and international artists.
Past Exhibitions
2022
2021
- Monitor: Surveillance, Data, and the New Panoptic: October 1 – December 10, 2021
- DOUBLE TROUBLE: July 8 – September 17, 2021
- 2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 15 – June 11, 2021
- Sorry We Missed You: March 24 – April 30, 2021
- Parallax/Geography: January 15 – March 14, 2021
- Tory Fair: Portable Window: January 15 – March 14, 2021
2020
- ACOUSTIC RESONANCE: October 2 – December 11, 2020
- Straight Lines in Four Directions For Social Distancing (after Sol LeWitt): Yumi Janairo Roth: August 2020
- Some Things We Can Do Together: Megan and Murray McMillan: July 8 – September 12, 2020
- ...to unravel the bind: Maine College of Art & Design 2020 Faculty Triennial: January 17 – March 1, 2020
- Jan Piribeck: The Qajaq Journey: December 17, 2019 – January 13, 2020
2019
- DesignInquiry: Futurespective: October 4 - December 14, 2019
- Darkness and the Light: July 12 - September 20, 2019
- 2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 10 - June 8, 2019
- Parasitic Honeyshoes | Visual Tensions | Letting Yourself Go: April 5 - 26, 2019
- Drawing Now: January 17 - March 22, 2019
2018
- Making Migration Visible: Traces, Tracks & Pathways: October 5 - December 14, 2018
- Curious Nature: 2018 Alumni Triennial: August 3 - September 15, 2018
- Tim Bavington: Rock & Roll Abstraction (Bob Crewe Gallery): July 13 - October 19, 2018
- 2018 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 11 - June 8, 2018
- You Never Know How You Look Through Other People's Eyes: March 8 - April 20, 2018
- Off the Wall: January 17–February 23, 2018
2017
- Confabulations of Millennia: October 6 - December 8, 2017
- American Genre: Contemporary Painting: July 20 – September 15, 2017
- 2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 12 - June 9, 2017
- VRAGE: April 26 - 28, 2017
- UNLOADED: March 16 - April 14, 2017
- Collective Actions II: February 1–March 3, 2017
2016
- Anguish: The Grave Misgivings of Remembrance: October 28, 2016 - January 14, 2017
- In This Realm: October 6–21, 2016
- Bounty: August 24–September 29, 2016
- Made in LA: July 1— Sunday, July 31, 2016
- Ann Hirsch: Sharing Love: July 1—August 12, 2016
- Ceramics Pop-up Shop: June 9—June 19, 2016
- Brothers, Some Good Times, and The Last Huraa: June 3–June 5, 2016
- 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 6–May 27, 2016
- Collective Actions: April 1–April, 2016
- MECA Through & Through: March 23, 2016
- Tinderbox: January 11–March 5, 2016
2015
- Razzle Dazzle Sis Boom Bah: January 21–April 5, 2015
- East to East: June 5–July 3, 2015
- The Sound Closet
- Thomas Moser Legacy in Wood: July 22–September 20, 2015
- Innocent Production: September 28–October 5, 2015
- Residual Utopia, Alumni Biennial 2015: October 9–December 15, 2015
- Fantastical Reality: December 21, 2015–January 3, 2016
- We Are What We Hide: June 2013—June 2016
2014
- Project _: August 21–October 12, 2014
- The Wrong Kind of Bars: August 21–October 12, 2014
- Rehearsal Space: Dance and Conversation: June 11–August 3, 2014
- 2014 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 9–June 1, 2014
- Bryan Graf: Moving Across the Interior: January 22–April 6, 2014
- Idea of North: February 22, 2014
2013
- 2013 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition: November 7–December 22, 2013
- Allan Kaprow: How To Make A Happening: November 7–December 22, 2013
- Ardor: 2013 Alumni Biennial Juried Exhibition: August 24–October 13, 2013
- Kate Gilmore: Mind the Square: June 3–August 4, 2013
- Alex Da Corte: Fun Sponge: June 3–August 4, 2013
- Dan DenDanto and Frank DenDanto: Bump: January 23–April 7, 2013
- Ander Mikalson: A Score for Two Dinosaurs: January 23–April 7, 2013
- The Peninsula School: January 23–April 7, 2013
2012
- The World Over: 2012 MECA&D Faculty Exhibition: November 7–December 22, 2012
- MEGAWORDS: August 16–October 6, 2012
- Lisi Raskin + Kimberely Kay: MotorPark: June 13–October 6, 2012
- Bridgman & Packer: October 5–6th, 2012
- The Art Department: Lazer Hotel: June 13–August 5, 2012
- Francis Cape: Utopian Benches: June 13–August 5, 2012
- 2012 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 10–June 2, 2012
- Consumption: April 17–19, 2012
- Access to Tools: Publications from the Whole Earth Catalog, 1968–1974: January 25–April 8, 2012
- Michael Bell-Smith: January 25–April 8, 2012
2011
- A Perpetual Present: 2011 MECA&D Faculty Selects Exhibition: November 16–December 23, 2011
- Time-Lag Records: Listening Room: October 12–26, 2011
- Miguel Calderón: Inverted Star / Poseídos: October 12–26, 2011
- Rally: 2011 Maine College of Art & Design Alumni Exhibition: August 24–October 9, 2011
- Speak More Clearly: August 24–October 9, 2011
- Drawn to Disaster: June 22–August 7, 2011
- Project Space Videos: June 22–Sunday, August 7, 2011
- 2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 14–June 12, 2011
- Lili Reynaud-Dewar: Cléda's Chairs: April 26–29, 2011
- FOREST: April 19–23, 2011
- Fracturing the Burning Glass: Between Mirror and Meaning: January 26–April 10 , 2011
- ICA Collaboration with the Portland Pirates: March 1–6, 2011
2010
- 2010 Faculty Exhibition: Vivaria Particula: November 17, 2010–January 9, 2011
- Mind Bending with the Mundane: September 1–October 17, 2010
- A Meticulous Ferment: June 23–August 15, 2010
- MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 7–June 6, 2010
- Exchange: January 20–April 11, 2010
2009
- Archaeology Above Ground: November 18–December 20, 2009
- aggregate: September 2–October 18, 2009
- Magnify: June 24–August 16, 2009
- 2009 MFA Thesis: May 9–June 7, 2009
- Manifold: March 25–April 24, 2009
- Twilight: January 21–March 8, 2009
2008
- Out There: The Mediated Landscape: November 19–December 21, 2008
- Ruminant: August 27–October 19, 2008
- Send: Conversations in Evolving Media: June 11–August 10, 2008
- 2008 MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 10–24, 2008
- 2008 Senior Index Exhibition: April 2–April 27, 2008
- 2008 Winter Exhibition Series: January 25–March 16, 2008
2007
- intervals: MFA Alumni Exhibtion: October 12–27, 2007
- Maine College of Art & Design 33rd Annual Art Auction: November 9, 2007
- Anthromorph Alumni Exhibition: August 29–October 7, 2007
- Corridor at Sea: The Performative Object: June 15–August 19, 2007
- Maine College of Art & Design MFA Thesis Exhibition: May 12–25, 2007
- BFA Senior Thesis Exhibition: May 12–29, 2007
2006
- Robert Indiana & MECA&D Prints
- From Baja to Bar Harbor: Transnational Contemporary Art
- The Body Eclectic: Selections from the RBC Dain Rauscher Collection
- 2006 Faculty Exhibition
2005
- Michael Queenland: Photographs, Sculptures and Shaker Classics
- 2005 MFA in Studio Arts Faculty Exhibition
- 2005 Senior Thesis Index
- Back From Nature: The Sportsman Redux
- 2005 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
- 2005 Regional Scholastic Art Awards
2004
- Living Green: Examining Sustainability
- MECA&D Art Auction
- Wenda Gu: Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium
- 2004 Senior Thesis Exhibitions
- Curators' Intuition
- 2004 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
- 2004 Regional Scholastic Art Awards
2003
- MECA&D Alumni Exhibition
- Art Auction
- Skowhegan Faculty 2002-03
- Senior Thesis Exhibition 2003
- Sebastiao Salgado: Migrations-Humanity in Transition
- 2003 Scholastic Art Awards
- 2003 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
2002
- MECA&D Art Auction
- William Pope.L: eRacism
- Playground
- 2002 Senior Thesis Exhibition
- Terrain: Sculpture Today
- 2002 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
- 2002 Scholastic Art Awards
2001
- Maine Contemporary Furniture
- MECA&D Art Auction
- Two Photographers
- 2001 Maine College of Art & Design MFA Faculty Exhibition
- Katarina Weslien, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ulf Rolloff
- Domestic Culture: home in visual culture
- 2001 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
- DAY WITH(OUT) Art
2000 & Previous
2000
- MECA Art Auction
- Translation/Seduction/Displacement
- Robert Farber: A Retrospective, 1984–1995
- Senior Thesis Exhibition 2000
- Beyond Decorum: The Photography of Iké Udé
- Scholastic Art Awards
- Congressional Art Awards
- 2000 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
1999
- Rez Williams: Steel Walls and Waterlines
- Eva Marco
- The Art of Reading : Books and Non-Books
- From the Centre to the Edge
- Maine College of Art & Design Alumni Exhibition
- Lucy Mitchell: Omnium Gatherum
- Senior Thesis Exhibition 1999
- 1999 Maine College of Art & Design BFA Exhibition
- Maine High School Competition
- 3 Installations
- 1999 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition
1998
- Do It
- Tonee Harbert, Bradley McCallum,
- Martha Rosler Lesley Dill, Judy LaBrasco, Susie Brandt
- 1998 Senior Thesis Exhibition
- 1998 Maine College of Art & Design BFA Exhibition
- Maine High School Competition
- David Thomas, Tom Friedman, Lucy White
- 1998 Maine College of Art & Design Faculty
- Uta Barth, Nancy Chunn, Anthony Caro
- Zeke Berman, Harvey Quaytman,
- Deborah Oropallo
- Quiet in the Land
- David Ireland
- Flow Thru Out by Mierle Laderman Ukeles