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The San José Museum of Art nurtures empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art.

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Emerging in difference, by Felipe Baeza. Viewed at San Jose Museum of Art, 2025.
#queer #queerart #gayartist #sanjose #guanajuato #mexico #fugitiveart #felipebaeza #gaylikeme

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05.12.2025 02:10 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Super Bowl LX travel guide: What to do within 10 miles of Levi’s Stadium Silicon Valley computer history, heritage neighborhoods, museums, parks, restaurants — and a mysterious 160-room mansion

Thank you, @salpizarro.bsky.social, for including SJMA in your Super Bowl LX travel guide!
Read here: www.mercurynews.com/2026/01/19/l...

20.01.2026 19:50 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Five Rising Contemporary Artists You Should Know

💫 #ektorgarcia was named one of five rising contemporary artists you should know by @nytimes.com Style Magazine!

📰 Read the article by Laura Bannister and see “ektor garcia: loose ends” at SJMA, on view now.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/t...

28.10.2025 23:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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San Jose Museum of Art Celebrates Work of ektor garcia For artist ektor garcia, no piece is ever truly finished—only paused. His sculptures resist the idea of permanence.

"Reconnection—whether to people, places, or past work—threads through loose ends."– Melisa Yuriar

"ektor garcia: loose ends" is featured on @metrosiliconvalley.bsky.social!

Read the article + see "loose ends" for yourself, on view through June 7, 2026.

www.metrosiliconvalley.com/ektor-garcia...

22.10.2025 23:16 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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San Jose Museum of Art Presents EKTOR GARCIA: LOOSE ENDS - Preview WHEN: October 17, 2025 through June 7, 2026 WHERE: San Jose Museum of Art 110 South Market Street San José, CA 95113 TICKETS: $20+ For

Crochet of metal, horsehair, seashells, volcanic rock, and even a pig's ear--Check of this preview of a Greater Bay Area/San Jose sculpture show in the Art section of Picture This Post magazine by clicking the link below.

@sanjosemuseumofart.bsky.social #EktorGarcia #BayAreaArt #BayAreaMuseums

05.10.2025 21:02 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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San José Museum of Art Announces New Executive Director | KQED Jeremiah Matthew Davis comes to San José from Oklahoma Contemporary, where he worked for nearly nine years.

New director and CEO at @sanjosemuseumofart.bsky.social starts on Oct. 1!

www.kqed.org/arts/1398119...

09.09.2025 22:30 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Board of Trustees of the San José Museum of Art (SJMA) announced today the appointment of Jeremiah Matthew Davis as Oshman Director and Chief Executive Officer. Davis will assume the role on October 1, 2025, following a nationwide search.

Read about the new director at sjmusart.org/director

09.09.2025 23:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you, @sahotchkiss.bsky.social, for including "ektor garcia: loose ends" in your fall arts preview on @kqedarts.bsky.social!

25.08.2025 18:37 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

A big shout-out to the @sanjosemuseumofart.bsky.social for making their press images so incredibly easy to access and identify. This is a Very Niche Thing, but iykyk

14.08.2025 23:44 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Pao Houa Her’s Images Capture the Impossibly Complex Idea of Home In ‘The Imaginative Landscape’ at the San José Museum of Art, the Hmong American artist plays with reality and artifice.

The @sanjosemuseumofart.bsky.social does it again: another beautiful and intellectually very smart show. Go see this one and take advantages of the benches to really sit with it.

13.08.2025 19:45 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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San Jose Museum of Art Presents Young Bay Mud — Preview WHEN: July 11, 2025 through February 22, 2026 WHERE: San Jose Museum of Art 110 S Market Street San Jose, CA 95113 TICKETS: $20+ For more informa

Art born of consciousness of Bay Area artists in the shadow (and rich land inheritance) born of earthquakes-- Click the image to read the Picture This Post preview--

@sanjosemuseumofart.bsky.social #BayAreaArt #PictureThisPostArt #Earthquakes @ashwinibhat.bsky.social #MercedesDurame #YoungBayMud

07.07.2025 19:55 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Meet our interim Co-Directors: Karen Rapp, deputy director, and Lauren Schell Dickens, chief curator!

They will lead SJMA as it undertakes a national search for a new executive director following the departure of S. Sayre Batton, Oshman Executive Director.

👉 Read here: sjmusart.org/press-releas...

28.05.2025 20:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Follow Kambui Olujimi’s ‘North Star’ into SJMA Kambui Olujimi’s show at the San Jose Museum of Art evokes a recurring dream in which he runs faster and faster, nearing the speed of light.

Thank you @metrosiliconvalley.bsky.social for featuring "Kambui Olujimi: North Star!" Read the article and see the exhibition yourself before it closes on Sunday, June 1!

24.05.2025 03:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We've got quilts at @bampfa.bsky.social! Pao Houa Her at @sanjosemuseumofart.bsky.social (and its environs)! SFAI at SFMOMA! And Rose B. Simpson art cars at @deyoungmuseum.bsky.social! I barely scratched the surface.

15.05.2025 15:57 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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How can we imagine new ways of being in the world and with each other?

Join us for our upcoming artist talk with #KambuiOlujimi about his solo exhibition, followed by a book signing.

📆 Fri, May 16, 7pm
📍 San José Museum of Art
🎟️ Free with admission
👉 Details at sjmusart.org/CreativeMinds

02.05.2025 20:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🌷 Spring has arrived! 🌷

SJMA announces the opening of "@paohouaher: The Imaginative Landscape" on July 11, 2025, the first comprehensive survey of Her's compelling body of work.

Read the press release here: sjmusart.org/press-releas...

21.03.2025 23:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🌱 SJMA announces the opening of "Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection," the Museum’s first galleries dedicated to displaying works from its collection. Opens Friday, March 7.

👉 Read press release here: sjmusart.org/press-release/tending-and-dreaming

22.02.2025 00:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Happy #RuthAsawaDay from SJMA! ➿

See Asawa's work in SJMA's new dedicated collection
galleries "Tending and Dreaming," which opens Friday,
March 7. Learn more at sjmusart.org/tending.

12.02.2025 23:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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San Jose Museum of Art’s executive director announces departure S. Sayre Batton will step down at the end of May after more than 8 years leading the downtown museum.

San Jose Museum of Art’s executive director announces departure

11.02.2025 21:39 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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San José Museum of Art’s Longtime Executive Director to Depart Before Sayre Batton leaves, the museum will open a dedicated space for collection exhibitions.

Sayre Batton to leave the @sanjosemuseumofart.bsky.social at the end of May:

www.kqed.org/arts/1397166...

11.02.2025 22:46 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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With regret and deep appreciation, we announce that S. Sayre Batton, Oshman Executive Director, is stepping down to manage independent projects. Her leadership has been instrumental in achieving significant milestones, and we are so grateful for her many contributions.

Read more: sjmusart.org/sayre

12.02.2025 00:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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🐍 It's the Year of the Snake! On view is Tony Oursler's "Study for Slip" (2003), a bizarre-looking creature with a slithery, serpentine form.

🧧 Happy Lunar New Year from SJMA!

Image: Tony Oursler, "Study for Slip," 2003. Acrylic on paper, 12 x 9 inches. Gift of Barbara Goldstein. 2006.09.

31.01.2025 02:09 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0