Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass. Through critical research, fictional reconstruction, and a marriage of poetic image and sound, Julien asserts Douglass’ enduring lessons of justice, abolition, and freedom that […]

Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection launches the first dedicated collection galleries at the Museum. Providing unprecedented access to core works in San José’s only publicly held art collection, SJMA’s collection galleries position artists as storytellers to imagine the Museum as a space where culture and meaning are actively made and always in process.  […]

Lotus L. Kang creates installations that respond to the spaces they inhabit and reveal the surprising possibilities of ‘misusing’ materials—specifically, the tools of photography. In her largest museum exhibition to date, she presents two major new installations alongside a series of works on paper, all developed in dialogue with the Frye Art Museum’s distinctive architecture. […]