INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC

Financials

From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.

Officers, directors and key employees

As listed on the 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025, highest compensation first.

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)

61 NE 41ST ST, MIAMI, FL 33137-3513

In care of

% ANTHONY TROISI

Principal officer (990 for 2024)

ALEX J GARTENFELD, 61 NE 41ST STREET, MIAMI, FL 33137

Signed the 990

ANDREW GAVIN, DIRECTOR OF FINANCE

Phone

(305) 901-5272

Website

ICAMIAMI.ORG

Return prepared by

BDO USA

Mission

THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, MIAMI (ICA MIAMI), IS DEDICATED TO PROMOTING THE WORK OF CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS, AND TO THE EXCHANGE OF ART AND IDEAS THROUGHOUT THE MIAMI REGION AND INTERNATIONALLY. THROUGH AN ENERGETIC CALENDAR OF EXHIBITIONS AND PROGRAMS, AND ITS COLLECTIONS, ICA MIAMI PROVIDES AN INTERNATIONAL PLATFORM FOR THE WORK OF ESTABLISHED AND EMERGING ARTISTS AND ADVANCES THE PUBLIC APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL ART OF OUR TIME.

Program accomplishments

• EXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS DURING FISCAL YEAR 2025, ICA MIAMI HOSTED A WIDE RANGE OF EXHIBITIONS FROM DIVERSE INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS. MAJOR EXHIBITIONS DURING FISCAL YEAR 2025 INCLUDED THE FOLLOWING: FROM NOVEMBER 2024 TO MARCH 2025, ICA MIAMI PRESENTED "KEICHI TANAAMI: MEMORY COLLAGE," A SURVEY OF FOUNDATIONAL JAPANESE POP ARTIST, KEICHI TAANAMI, WHICH INCLUDED SIX DECADES OF WORKS. TANAAMI WAS PART OF THE FIRST GENERATION OF POSTWAR JAPANESE ARTISTS WHO HAD TO URGENTLY FIND WAYS TO MEDIATE THE TRAUMA OF NUCLEAR WAR AND THE ARRIVAL OF PSYCHEDELIC CULTURE TO JAPAN IN THE 1960S. HE WORKED ACROSS VARIOUS MEDIA, FROM ANIMATIONS AND COLLAGES TO PAINTINGS AND DIGITAL VIDEOS. FROM NOVEMBER 2024 TO MARCH 2025, ICA MIAMI PRESENTED "CROSSROADS: RUBEM VALENTIM'S 1960S." RUBEM VALENTIN WAS THE FIRST BRAZILIAN ARTIST TO MARRY THE LONG HISTORY OF GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION IN PAINTING WITH A VISUAL LANGUAGE DERIVED FROM THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN RELIGION OF CANDOMBLE, PRODUCING UNPRECEDENTED NEW FORMS. THE EXHIBITION FOCUS SPECIFICALLY IN THE WORK OF THE 1960S, WHICH WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT AND GROUND-BREAKING DECADE OF VALETIM'S PRODUCTION. FROM DECEMBER 2024 TO MARCH 2025, ICA MIAMI SHOWCASED LAURIE SIMMONS PROJECT "KALEIDOSCOPE HOUSE," IN COLLABORATION WITH MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT. FROM DECEMBER 2024-MARCH 2025, ICA MIAMI PRESENTED "LUCY BULL: THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS." THE EXHIBITION WAS THE FIRST MUSEUM EXHIBITION FOR LUCY BULL, AN AMERICAN ABSTRACT PAINTER. ALONG WITH "LUCY BULL: THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS," ICA MIAMI ALSO COMMISSIONED BULL TO MAKE A NEW, 40-FOOT PAINTING FOR THE MUSEUM'S STAIRWELL, WHICH WAS ON DISPLAY BETWEEN DECEMBER 2024 AND OCTOBER 2025. FROM DECEMBER 2024 TO MARCH 2025, ICA MIAMI PRESENTED "MARGUERITTE HUMEAU: \*SK\*/EY-," THE FIRST MUSEUM EXHIBITION FOR PARIS-BORN AND LONDON-BASED SCULPTOR MARGUERITTE HUMEAU. THE EXHBITION PRESENTED A NEW GROUP OF WORKS THAT EXPLORED POSTHUMAN LANDSCAPES, MUTATING SPECIES, AND IRREGULAR MATERIALS. FROM DECEMBER 2024 TO APRIL 2025, ICA MIAMI PRESENTED "DING SHILUN: JANUS," THE FIRST MUSEUM EXHIBITION FOR ARTIST DING SHILUN, WHOSE PAINTINGS EXPLORE, THROUGH MYSTICAL AND GHOSTLY SCENES, COMING-OF-AGE NARRATIVES. IN MARCH 2025, IN COLLABORATION WITH MIAMI DESIGN DISTRICT, ICA PRESENTED "MARTA MINUJIN: DREAMSACPE," A LARGE-SCALE AND INTERACTIVE OUTDOOR INSTALLATION BY HISTORICAL ARGENTINEAN ARTIST, MARTA MINUJIN. FROM APRIL TO NOVEMBER 2025, ICA PRESENTED "MIRIAM SHAPIRO: 1967-1972," WHICH SHOWCASED AN IMPORTANT AND RARELY SHOWN SET OF PAINTINGS BY SHAPIRO, SOME OF THE FIRST WORK ANYWHERE TO USE COMPUTERS IN THEIR PRODUCTION. FROM MAY TO OCTOBER 2025, ICA MIAMI HOSTED "OLGA DE AMARAL," AN EXHIBITION OF PIONEERING COLOMBIAN PIONEER FIBER ARTISTS. IT WAS HER LARGEST RETROSPECTIVE TO DATE THUS FAR, INCLUDING OVER 50 WORKS PRODUCED OVER THE LST SIX DECADES. FROM MAY TO OCTOBER 2025, ICA MIAMI PRESENTED "SANAA GATEJA: LANGUAGE OF WE," AN EXHIBITION OF LARGE-SCALE QUILTS MADE WITH DYED PAPER BEADS BY UGANDAN ARTIST SANAA GATEJA. FROM MAY TO OCTOBER 2025, ICA MIAMI PRESENTED "MILDRED THOMSON: FREQUENCIES," A SURVEY OF THE WORKS OF LATE AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTIST MILDRED THOMPSON. THOMPSON'S RICHLY STAURATED, LARGE-SCALE PAINTINGS EXPLORE PHENOMENA THAT UNFOLD BEYOND THE THRESHOLDS OF HUAMN SIGHT, FROM COSMIC EVENTS AND MICROSCOPIC REALITIES TO DIFFERENT SOUND FREQUENCIES. IN JUNE 2025, ICA MIAMI PRESENTED "KONSTATINO DREGOS: PRIMA MATERIA," AN EXHIBITION OF MINIMALIST PAINTINGS BY DREGOS, WHICH EMPLOY MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS AS THEIR SUBJECT MATTER. IN JULY 2025, ICA MIAMI PRESENTED "ERIC DOERINGER," AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS WHICH DOERINGER MADE IN THE SPECIFIC STYLE OF OTHER ARTISTS, RAISING QUESTIONS OF AUTHORSHIP, CREATIVITY, AND PROPERTY. IN APRIL 2025, ICA MIAMI PRESENTED "MOVING BEYOND BARS," AN EXHIBITION FEATURING MONUMNETAL WORKS AND PERSONAL WRITINGS CREATED BY WOMEN INCARCERATED AT FLORIDA WOMEN'S PRISON IN OCALA, FLORIDA, AND MEN INCARCERATED AT THE SOUTH DAKOTA STATE PENITERNTIARY, SIOUX FALL, SD, AND MIKE DURFEE STATE PRISON, SPRINGFIELD, SD. IN ADDITION, ICA MIAMI CONTINUED TO ACTIVATE ITS SCULPTURE GARDEN WITH WORKS BY LEADING CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS, INCLUDING PERMANENT COMMISSIONS SUCH AS UNSPECIFIED PROMISE (ALLORA & CALZADILLA), DR. PEPPER (MARK HANDFORTH), EPICURUS (PEDRO REYES), AND REPLICANT STONE (DAMIAN ORTEGA). ICA MIAMI'S PERMANENT COLLECTION CONTINUED TO GROW, ARTICULATING CORNERSTONE MOMENTS IN THE CAREERS OF SIGNIFICANT ARTISTS OF OUR TIME, WITH ACQUISITIONS IN FY2025 EXPANDING THE MUSEUM'S HOLDINGS IN PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND NEW MEDIA.
  Expenses $6,365,936 · revenue $257,773
• COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH ITS COMMUNICATIONS PROGRAM, ICA MIAMI COMMUNICATES ITS MISSION AND ACTIVITIES TO THE PUBLIC, INFORMING AUDIENCES ABOUT CONTEMPORARY ART AND ITS IMPORTANCE IN OUR SOCIETY THROUGH MULTIPLE MEDIA. ICA MIAMI CONTINUES TO EMPLOY A COMPREHENSIVE MARKETING AND OUTREACH STRATEGY TO SUPPORT ENGAGEMENT WITH BOTH TOURISTS AND MIAMI RESIDENTS OF ALL AGES AND SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS. THE MUSEUM MAINTAINS DEDICATED STAFF FOR MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS, AND DIGITAL PRODUCTION AND WORKS WITH LEADING PR AGENCIES TO ENSURE SIGNIFICANT AUDIENCE REACH AND PRESS ATTENTION ON THE LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL LEVELS. KEY STRATEGIES IN FY2025 INCLUDED: 1. PUBLISHING FULL-PAGE PRINT ADS IN CULTURED, DESIGN DISTRICT MAGAZINE, AND OTHER ART PUBLICATIONS. 2. IMPLEMENTING DIGITAL CAMPAIGNS WITH LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS SUCH AS MIAMI HERALD, MIAMI NEW TIMES, TIME OUT MIAMI AND WLRN. 3. RUNNING TARGETED GOOGLE ADWORDS AND DISPLAY ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. 4. BROADCASTING RADIO SPOTS PROMOTING ICA MIAMI'S MISSION OF FREE AND OPEN ACCESS. 5. POSTING AND ADVERTISING ACROSS ICA MIAMI'S SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS (WITH CONTINUED GROWTH IN INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK, AND X/TWITTER FOLLOWERS, REACHING A COMBINED AUDIENCE EXCEEDING 500,000). 6. PRODUCING ORIGINAL VIDEO CONTENT DISTRIBUTED VIA ICA MIAMI'S WEBSITE, YOUTUBE, AND SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS. 7. ENHANCING WEBSITE SEO VISIBILITY TO MAXIMIZE ACCESS TO EXHIBITION AND PROGRAM INFORMATION. 8. IMPROVING WEB INFRASTRUCTURE TO TRACK ENGAGEMENT PATHWAYS, INCLUDING TICKET RESERVATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP SALES. 9. SENDING EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS TO OVER 113,000 SUBSCRIBERS WITH INVITATIONS TO EXHIBITIONS, PROGRAMS, AND EVENTS. 10. GENERATING GLOBAL WEBSITE SESSIONS AVERAGING MORE THAN 20,000 MONTHLY. 11. CROSS-PROMOTING WITH CITY AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS INCLUDING GREATER MIAMI CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU, FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY AND UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI. 12. ISSUING NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASES TO MAJOR ART TRADE PUBLICATIONS. 13. HOSTING EXHIBITION OPENINGS AND EVENTS WITH SPONSORS, LIVE PERFORMANCES, AND SOCIAL ACTIVATIONS.
  Expenses $1,217,778
• PUBLIC PROGRAMS DURING FISCAL YEAR 2025, ICA MIAMI CONTINUED TO GENERATE A ROBUST PROGRAM OF PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES, SEMINARS, ARTIST TALKS, LIVE PERFORMANCES, AND PODCASTS. BUILDING ON THE STRUCTURE THAT DIVIDES THE INSTITUTION'S PUBLIC PROGRAMS INTO FOCUSED COMPONENTS, PROGRAMMING WAS DEVELOPED UNDER THE FOLLOWING RUBRICS: ART + RESEARCH CENTER, ICA IDEAS, ICA PERFORMS, AND ICA SPEAKS. * ART + RESEARCH CENTER (A+RC) ICA MIAMI'S A+RC REMAINS THE MUSEUM'S PLATFORM FOR ADVANCED STUDY AND DIALOGUE ON ART AND IDEAS, OFFERING FREE COLLEGE-LEVEL SEMINARS AND PUBLIC LECTURES. IN FY2025, THE A+RC HOSTED MULTIPLE THREE-WEEK SEMINAR CYCLES LED BY PROMINENT ARTISTS, THEORISTS, AND SCHOLARS, ADDRESSING THEMES SUCH AS THE UNCANNY IN THE VISUALS ARTS (OCTOBER 15-31, 2024), THE ARTS OF AFRO-BRAZIL (MAY 12-19, 2025), AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND QUESTIONS OF CLIMATE (AUGUST 10-13, 2025). OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR, THE A+RC PRESENTED 10 PUBLIC LECTURES AND RELEASED A NEW SEASON OF ITS PODCAST, FEATURING ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS INCLUDING CHARLES GAINES, TONY OUSLER, DEBORAH LEVITT, JEFFERY SCONCE, ROBERTOI CONDURU, LUIS NICOLAS PARES, AND KRIS ROVETTO-BIAGIOLI. THE A+RC SUMMER INTENSIVE CONVENED STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDY WITH VISITING FACULTY FROM LEADING UNIVERSITIES. IT CULMINATED WITH A SYMPOSIUM IN WHICH SCHOLARS JOSHUA SHANNON AND STEPHANIE WAKEFIELD PRESENTED NEW RESEARCH * ICA IDEAS ICA IDEAS PROVIDED IN-DEPTH CONVERSATIONS, SYMPOSIA, AND CRITICAL REFLECTIONS TIED DIRECTLY TO ICA MIAMI'S EXHIBITIONS. HIGHLIGHTS IN FY2025 INCLUDED: A SYMPOSIUM ON THE WORK OF OLGA DE AMARAL, EXPLORING HER DECADES OF ARTMAKING AND THE BRIDGES THAT SHE HAS CREATED BETWEEN CRAFT AND TARDITIONAL PRACTICES AND CONTEMPORARY ART. SCHOLARS AND CURATORS SUSAN ABERTH, ELISSA AUTHER, CRISTINA L. DE LEON, AND MARIE PERENEES PRESENTED NEW PAPERS. AN ARTIST TALK WITH LAURIE SIMMONS REGARDING HER PROJECT "KALEIDOSCOPE HOUSE," ON VIEW AT ICA MIAMI. AN ARTIST TALK WITH MARGUERITE HUMEAU ON HER NEW BODY OF WORKS, EXHIBITED FOR THE FIRST TIME AT ICA MIAMI. A FORMAL LECTURE BY JAPANESE ART HISTORIAN NAMIKO KUNIMOTO ON THE WORK OF KEICHI TANAAMI. AN[GM1.1] INTERDISCIPLINARY ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM ON ZILIA SANCHEZ PRACTICE IN THE CONTEXT OF POSTWAR LATIN AMERICAN MODERNISM AND GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION BROADENING PERSPECTIVES ON THE ARTIST'S WORK AND EXPLORING THE VARIOUS ARTISTIC CONTEXTS SHE WORKED IN INCLUDING HAVANA, NEW YORK, MADRID, AND SAN JUAN. SCHOLARS CHRISTINA A. LEON, CECILIA FAJARDO-HILL AND ALYSON CLUCK PARTICIPATED. *ICA SPEAKS ICA SPEAKS HOSTED ARTIST TALKS AND SCHOLARLY REFLECTIONS RELATED TO ICA MIAMI'S PERMANENT COLLECTION AND EXHIBITIONS. FY2025 FEATURED A LECTURE BY ARTIST RICK LOWE . THROUGH THESE INITIATIVES, ICA MIAMI PRESENTED DOZENS OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS DURING FY2025, ENGAGING THOUSANDS OF PARTICIPANTS IN DIALOGUE, LEARNING, AND LIVE PERFORMANCE. THESE PROGRAMS REINFORCE ICA MIAMI'S MISSION TO PROVIDE FREE AND OPEN ACCESS TO CONTEMPORARY ART, FOSTER CRITICAL THOUGHT, AND AMPLIFY DIVERSE VOICES IN MIAMI, NATIONALLY, AND INTERNATIONALLY.
  Expenses $988,661
• EDUCATION AND OUTREACH ICA MIAMI CONTINUES TO EXPAND ITS EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES TO SERVE STUDENTS, FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS. THE YOUNG ARTISTS INITIATIVE PROVIDED AN INTENSIVE, APPLICATION-BASED PROGRAM FOR 10TH-12TH GRADE STUDENTS, OFFERING DIRECT ENGAGEMENT WITH PRACTICING ARTISTS AND CRITICAL ART HISTORY COURSEWORK. STUDENTS DEVELOPED PORTFOLIOS CULMINATING IN AN EXHIBITION AT ICA MIAMI. ICA MIAMI ALSO OFFERED SUMMER PORTFOLIO PREP FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS APPLYING TO MAGNET AND CHARTER ART PROGRAMS, AND SATURDAY ART CLASSES FOR CHILDREN AGES 8-14. TOGETHER, THESE PROGRAMS SERVED MORE THAN 100 PARTICIPANTS DURING FY2025. OUTREACH PROGRAMS ENGAGED UNDERSERVED CHILDREN AND YOUTH THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS WITH MIAMI-DADE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS. ICA MIAMI CURRICULA FOSTER VISUAL LITERACY AND EMPOWER PARTICIPANTS' SOCIAL AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES. IN FY2025, MORE THAN 1000 STUDENTS WERE SERVED. ICA MIAMI HOSTED FAMILY PROGRAMS INCLUDING FAMILY FEST AND WEEKLY WORKSHOPS DESIGNED TO WELCOME CHILDREN OF ALL ABILITIES. THESE ACCESSIBLE PROGRAMS COMBINED STORYTELLING, ART-MAKING, AND MOVEMENT, SERVING OVER 500 FAMILIES DURING FY2025.
  Expenses $911,757

What it must file and when

IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in September, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

IRS record

EIN

47-1251523

Tax-exempt status

501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization

Foundation status

Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))

Donations deductible (Pub 78)

Public charity, 50% deduction limit

Exempt since

2014

Accounting year ends

September

Files

Form 990 or 990-EZ

Category (NTEE)

Arts, culture and humanities (A51)

Assets (IRS master file)

$79,593,146

Income (IRS master file)

$18,359,739

Filing history

990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 47-1251523).

Questions about INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC

What is the EIN of INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC?

The employer identification number (EIN) of INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC is 47-1251523.

Is INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC tax-exempt?

Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2014.

Are donations to INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC tax-deductible?

Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).

Which annual return does INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC file?

Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.

When is the next return of INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC due?

The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending September 30, 2026) is due February 16, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.

When did INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC last file with the IRS?

The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended September 2025.

Who is the principal officer of INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC?

The 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025 names ALEX J GARTENFELD.

Who are the officers and directors of INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC?

The 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025 lists 47 people; 5 received compensation from the organization, the highest $428,620 (ALEX GARTENFELD, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR).

How much revenue does INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC have?

On its 990 for the year ended September 30, 2025 it reported revenue of $15,857,598, expenses of $12,383,397 and total assets of $79,593,146 at year end.

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