Eleven works of art, ranging from images by the gritty photographer Nan Goldin to a large sculpture of hanging charcoal, will be the first items in the Institute of Contemporary Art's new permanent collection, the museum will announce today.

All of the works were donated to the museum. Among them are three photographs by Goldin and a watercolor by Marlene Dumas, one of whose paintings recently sold for $3.3 million, the highest price paid at auction for a living woman artist. There are two sculptures by Cornelia Parker, a 1997 finalist for the Turner Prize, Britain's most prestigious art award, including ''Hanging Fire (Suspected Arson)," made of suspended charcoal. Paul Chan's ''1st Light," a piece of digital animation, is featured in the current Whitney Biennial, in New York.

There are also sculptures by Mona Hatoum, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Taylor Davis, and a gouache by Laylah Ali. Both Davis and Ali are former winners of the ICA Artist Prize, which the museum gives to outstanding local artists, and Hirshhorn was just featured in a major show at the ICA.

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Boston Globe. ICA selects the first 11 works for its permanent collection