Working with land-based materials, Christine Howard Sandoval excavates the conflicting knowledge systems and histories that are held in archives, architecture, and the land itself. Move the Plot brings the artist’s practice home to San José, where she grew up.
Motherboards explores the foundational contributions of women’s work to the technology industry. Featuring artists from California and beyond, the exhibition maps an extensive network of women’s work in technology, connecting Silicon Valley’s laboratories and garages to vital work performed at looms, desks, kitchens, and assembly lines across the globe.
In a materials-based practice that draws on 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.
Ongoing
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.
Ongoing Installation
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.
Ongoing Exhibition
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.
Ongoing Installation
Receiver is a phantasmal giant. The figure’s head suggests a robot or alien from a Hollywood movie, its chiseled smile characteristic of Greek statues of the Archaic period.
Ongoing Installation
Kelly Akashi's Cultivator is a monumental bronze cast from the artist’s own hand—complete with details of cuticles, fingernails, and creases—as a record of her slowly changing body. Rising from a planter filled with native plants, the hand’s fingers gently support an array of oversized glass-blown flowers modeled after endangered California species, including Presidio clarkia and threadleaf brodiaea.
