New York, NY—The International Center of Photography (ICP) announced the scheduling and content for the 2024 International Center of Photography exhibits and programs. What’s more, this is ICP’s 50th anniversary season.
Moreover, throughout the remainder of 2024, ICP’s exhibitions and programs will explore ideas that expand our understanding of photography as a medium. They will also discuss the works that redefine and introduce us to new perspectives. In addition, ICP will honor the unsung and emerging pioneers in the field. 
ICP’s current exhibitions on view through May 6 are ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845-2019. It includes more than 170 works and is the first major look at ICP’s collection in nearly 25 years. Also on tap is David Seidner, Fragments: 1977-99. This is the first significant retrospective of an important and overlooked artist of the 1980s and 1990s.
ICP’s upcoming 2024 Exhibits & Programs
SUMMER
Yto Barrada: Part Time Abstractionist
May 22 to September 2, 2024
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 are explored, beginning in the early 2000s through the present. These two modes of working are consistent throughout Bararda’s work. Further, they offer an insight into the ways she examines the social, political and industrial structures that 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 to September 2
This is the first exhibition by recent graduates from the School at ICP to run for a full exhibition cycle. The show includes work by more than 70 students from 25+ countries, from Argentina to Belarus and Thailand to Yemen. It will comprise images from graduates of four of ICP’s education programs: the full-time, on-site 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. It will feature approximately 70 works from the collection. 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 to January 6, 2025
We Are Here, on view at ICP this fall, will spotlight street photography from 30 international photographers. They include Devin Allen, Shoichi Aoki, Farnaz Damnabi, Debrani Das, Romuald Hazoumè, Youcef Krache, Josué Rivas, Randa Shaath, Jamel Shabazz, Trevor Stuurman, Alexey Titarenko as well as Nontsikelelo Veleko.
Through the work of these intergenerational and geographically disparate artists, We Are Here encourages an expansive reviewing of street photography. Furthermore, it opens 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.
40th Annual Infinity Awards 2024
April 10, 6–10 p.m., Tisch Skylights at The Shed
The ICP Infinity Awards honor and celebrate major achievements in photography and visual art. This year’s event coincides with ICP’s 50th Anniversary. It is a milestone anniversary celebrating a lasting legacy in photographic excellence. The event is also ICP’s largest fundraiser which benefits its full range of education and exhibition programs.
In addition, the event recognizes four talented photographers who have expanded the boundaries of the medium. It also recognizes 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
For more information about these exhibitions and related 50th anniversary events, including the Naomi Rosenblum ICP Talks Photographer Lecture Series, visit icp.org.
