PAEWHITE:NOISYBLUSHES
TENDINGANDDREAMING
ON VIEW
SECOND FLOOR
PAO HOUA HER: THE IMAGINATIVE LANDSCAPE
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through Friday, July 11, 2025 – Sunday, February 22, 2026 • sjmusart.org/houa
This first major exhibition of Pao Houa Her’s photographic practice traces the artist’s deepening exploration of diasporic constructions of homeland among her Hmong American community.
YOUNG BAY MUD
through Friday, July 11, 2025 – Sunday, February 22, 2026 • sjmusart.org/mud
Inspired by the unique ground that underlies the San Francisco Bay Area, known scientifically as young bay mud, this exhibition highlights artists with local ties who are using mud to explore ecological entanglement and belonging in the Bay Area.
EKTOR GARCIA: LOOSE ENDS
Opens Friday, October 17, 2025 – Sunday, June 7, 2026 • sjmusart.org/ektor
In 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. This is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in his home state of California.
FIRST FLOOR
PA E WHITE: NOISY BLUSHES
Ongoing installation • sjmusart.org /noisy-blushes
Pae White’s Noisy Blushes (2020) is a meditation on movement and time, light and color, material presence and the elusiveness of form. Commissioned by SJMA, the sculpture soars within the Museum’s thirty-foot high atrium and transforms its entrance into an experiential passageway, delivering a sublime experience for visitors.
TENDING AND DREAMING: STORIES FROM THE COLLECTION
Ongoing exhibition • sjmusart.org/tending
Tending and Dreaming 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.
LOWER LEVEL
KORET
GALLERY: ART LEARNING LAB
Ongoing exhibition • sjmusart.org/lab
Art Learning Lab is a dedicated exhibition space inspired by Sowing Creativity, the Museum’s award-winning STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) education program. Featuring a diverse selection of work from the permanent collection, the Art Learning Lab reveals how artists engage cross-disciplinary concepts in their approach to art-making.