The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art

The Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art An arts and education organization with a mission to break down the barriers between the art world an

Alongside Emma Safir in our main gallery, Gitmo Baby by in our project space is opening Friday, May 1st 7-10pmCurated b...
04/23/2026

Alongside Emma Safir in our main gallery, Gitmo Baby by in our project space is opening Friday, May 1st 7-10pm
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We are so excited to announce Emma Safir: Passionate Wretch, opening Friday, May 1, 7-10pm at BICA. This is the second e...
04/14/2026

We are so excited to announce Emma Safir: Passionate Wretch, opening Friday, May 1, 7-10pm at BICA. This is the second exhibition in our series The Real Deal.

In Passionate Wretch, Emma Safir’s paintings tarry at the boundaries of privacy and presentation, interiority and reflection, temptation and rejection. Safir photographs textures—fences, blinds, water, leaves, fabric—and then physically works against them. Printed onto gauzy, semi-transparent fabrics, Safir smocks, beads, or upholsters the images over sculptural forms, burying them beneath layers of accumulated handiwork until they function less as pictures than as surfaces: pressured, adorned, and only partially visible. She calls the results paintings. Taking its title from an excerpt by William Blake, Passionate Wretch brings together two new bodies of work by Safir.

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A line amongst lines is an architectural intervention by Alberte Tranberg that uses the gesture of a line to sense how i...
03/13/2026

A line amongst lines is an architectural intervention by Alberte Tranberg that uses the gesture of a line to sense how infrastructure directs movement, behavior, and perception. A slender steel rod, coated in glossy red, draws a physical and visual division through the landscape, guiding the viewer’s gaze along its branching off-shoots. Referencing powerlines, roads, and public signage, the sculpture frames the built environment as a disciplinary system - one that educates bodies through repetition, regulation, and standardization.⁠
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On view now at BICA! .tranberg

📒 Issue 20's last print drop...⁠⁠‘A Quiet Consciousness’ Annie MacDonell, 'Interior Life' written by Alana Traficante. R...
03/08/2026

📒 Issue 20's last print drop...⁠
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‘A Quiet Consciousness’ Annie MacDonell, 'Interior Life' written by Alana Traficante. Read it online, or find your copy in the wild!⁠
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The photographs, glossy and carefully composed, draw from the language of advertising. But within this context, their po...
03/07/2026

The photographs, glossy and carefully composed, draw from the language of advertising. But within this context, their polished surfaces are subverted. The images act like stage sets or portals, introducing characters that inhabit a speculative world of the artist’s own making. Color runs through them not as decoration, but as agent, atmosphere, and architecture. These are images in which color does something, building a scene, becoming a character.⁠
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Installation views from The Language of Color by Jova Lynne (), on view at BICA.

Our next project space opening is a show Friday, March 13th from 7-10pm!Mise-en-Abyme emerges from two unholy creations...
03/06/2026

Our next project space opening is a show Friday, March 13th from 7-10pm!

Mise-en-Abyme emerges from two unholy creations in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Dr. Frankenstein’s re-animating a body from stolen parts and Captain Walton’s reconstruction of Dr. Frankenstein’s story. Inspired by these parallel acts, the artists in Mise-en-Abyme each assembled a set of artifacts over the course of three readings of Frankenstein, then received a different artist’s fragments with which to reconstruct reality. The result is a body of work that brings new life to each other’s visions—though what form that life takes will be a mystery.

Gaze into the abyss when it arrives on Friday, March 13 at 7 PM in the BICA Project Space

Two Generator Fund events, one Friday! (This Friday!)Museum of Cold invites you to their inaugural show, Cold Visions f...
03/04/2026

Two Generator Fund events, one Friday! (This Friday!)

Museum of Cold invites you to their inaugural show, Cold Visions from 6-9 this Friday.

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Ctrl + Print .art & invite you to their inaugural show from 6-9 this Friday.

You don’t have to choose, you can do both!

It's the last week to visit Nick Mass: Under Observation! The show ends Saturday. ⁠⁠⁠⁠Hours:⁠Wednesday 12-5⁠Thursday 12-...
03/04/2026

It's the last week to visit Nick Mass: Under Observation! The show ends Saturday. ⁠
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Hours:⁠
Wednesday 12-5⁠
Thursday 12-7⁠
Friday 12-5⁠
Saturday 12-5

📒 Drop number four from Issue 20!⁠⁠Alexa Kanarowski is 'Searching for a New New Topographics in Western New York's Lands...
03/01/2026

📒 Drop number four from Issue 20!⁠
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Alexa Kanarowski is 'Searching for a New New Topographics in Western New York's Landscape." ⁠Online now!⁠

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Frequency describes the rate at which something oscillates: the pitch of a note, the hue of a color. Resonance occurs wh...
02/25/2026

Frequency describes the rate at which something oscillates: the pitch of a note, the hue of a color. Resonance occurs when a vibration is sustained or amplified by another body, causing materials, spaces, or people to respond. In The Language of Color, these concepts are both method and metaphor. Sound and color don’t just appear: they move, echo, and ripple. Meaning is built through return, through touch, through repetition.⁠
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Installation view from The Language of Color by Jova Lynne (), on view at BICA.

📒 Issue 20, article number three!⁠⁠Namah J. writes 'The Pre-Degraded Image, A shortcut to History.' Available to read on...
02/22/2026

📒 Issue 20, article number three!⁠
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Namah J. writes 'The Pre-Degraded Image, A shortcut to History.' Available to read online now!⁠

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