San Jose Museum of Art
Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection
San Jose Museum of Art 110 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA, United StatesTending 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. […]
Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape
San Jose Museum of Art 110 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA, United StatesPao Houa Her’s practice engages with the legacies, potentials, and aesthetics of landscape and portrait photography traditions, examining the complex intertwining of desire, homeland, and artifice. Rooted in the experience of her Hmong community and shaped by family experiences and lore passed down by her elders, Her’s work centers women as the knowledge bearers of […]
Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape
San Jose Museum of Art 110 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA, United StatesPao Houa Her’s practice engages with the legacies, potentials, and aesthetics of landscape and portrait photography traditions, examining the complex intertwining of desire, homeland, and artifice. Rooted in the experience of her Hmong community and shaped by family experiences and lore passed down by her elders, Her’s work centers women as the knowledge bearers of […]
ektor garcia: loose ends
San Jose Museum of Art 110 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA, United StatesIn a materials-based practice that draws on Mexican handcraft traditions and a DIY sensibility, ektor garcia subtly challenges hierarchies of gendered and racialized labor while undermining notions of static identity. He draws from a unique vocabulary of materials—copper wire, cast metals, glass, clay, horsehair, seashells, and leather—which he weaves, knots, and crochets into objects at […]
Motherboards
San Jose Museum of Art 110 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA, United StatesNot simply users of technology, women have played vital roles as inventors and makers across the history of technology. Yet their contributions aren’t always acknowledged in popular and official histories of technological innovation. Motherboards brings together artists whose work foregrounds the many ways that women have shaped the technology industry. Motherboards highlights the central role of women in […]