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Creative Minds: Pao Houa Her and Book Launch

Gallery installation of vivid photographic imagery with a portrait of a young Hmong girl

Left to right: Installation view of Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape at the San José Museum of Art, July 11, 2025–February 22, 2026. Photo by Glen Cheriton ; Pao Houa Her, My grandmother’s favorite grandchild – Pao Houa from “My grandfather turned into a tiger” series, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and Bockley Gallery.

4–6pm • Free
Offsite at SJSU King Library

Hosted at SJSU King Library

Join artist Pao Houa Her as she discusses her work in Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape, currently on view at SJMA and at locations around downtown San José. Following the program will be a celebration of the launch of the new exhibition catalog and a book-signing. This program is presented in partnership with SJSU King Library.

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Location
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library • Digital Humanities Center (First Floor)
150 E San Fernando St, San José, California 95112

 

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Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape

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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.