Announcing SJMA has successfully qualified as an Active Member for 2025-26 with Gallery Climate Coalition! To achieve Active status, we had to demonstrate that we had implemented environmentally responsible best practices in line with GCC guidance. Visit GalleryClimateCoalition.org to learn more!

An art museum in San Jose shines a light on the underrecognized women in the tech industry. Click the link in the Picture This Post Museum section to read the preview-- @sanjosemuseumofart.bsky.social #BayAreaMuseums #BayAreaArt #PictureThisPostMuseums #PictureThisPostArt

Opening today and well worth your while! @sanjosemuseumofart.bsky.social does it again: www.kqed.org/arts/1398839...

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

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

💫 #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...

"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...

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

New director and CEO at @sanjosemuseumofart.bsky.social starts on Oct. 1! www.kqed.org/arts/1398119...

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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!

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.

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

🌷 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...

🌱 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

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.

San Jose Museum of Art’s executive director announces departure

Sayre Batton to leave the @sanjosemuseumofart.bsky.social at the end of May: www.kqed.org/arts/1397166...

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

🐍 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.