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Launching with San Francisco Art Week 2026 (January 17-25, 2026), ICA SF is partnering with SHVO at Transamerica Pyramid Center as part of the Pyramid Arts initiative to present large-scale Stratagem sculptures by Tara Donovan, including two works that have never before been shown publicly.
Known for her transformative use of everyday materials, Donovan’s most recent sculptures are in exquisite formal dialogue with the building itself. The Stratagem works, made of thousands of recycled CDs, will constantly shift as the light and weather outside of Transamerica’s glass Annex gallery changes over the course of days and months.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
The Institute for Contemporary Art recently announced it would be shedding its latest space, giving up permanent walls to roam naked through San Francisco. From here on out, the city itself will be the gallery, art appearing in locations that best suit. This new approach launches with two installations at the freshly transformed Transamerica Pyramid during Art Week 2026. Tara Donovan's "Strategems," large columns made of recycled audio CDs, will appear in the lobby, while local landscape artist Lily Kwong's "Earthseed Dome" begins 3-D printing itself from living soil in the courtyard. The process continues through July, acting as both a fabrication slash performance and a seed distribution center.
Mark Taylor
SF/Arts Curator
The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF) is a brand new, free, non-collecting contemporary art museum dedicated to experimenting in public, operating transparently, and embracing constant reinvention in the realm of contemporary art.
The Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA SF) is a brand new, free, non-collecting contemporary art museum dedicated to experimenting in public, operating transparently, and embracing constant reinvention in the realm of contemporary art.