Opening Celebration: Pao Houa Her and Young Bay Mu

Friday, Jul 11, 2025 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm
San Jose Museum of Art
110 South Market Street
408-271-6840

Save the date for the opening celebration of two new exhibitions Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape and Young Bay Mud.

The Imaginative Landscape is 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.

Inspired by the unique ground that underlies the San Francisco Bay Area, Young Bay Mud highlights artists with local ties who are using mud to explore ecological entanglement and belonging in the Bay Area.

Images from left to right:  Pao Houa Her, My grandmother’s favorite grandchild – Pao Houa from “My grandfather turned into a tiger” series, 2017. Wheat-pasted vinyl, 10 x 8 inches. Courtesy of the artist; Futurefarmers, "Soil Horizons," 2022. Video and sound, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artists and the Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San José State University. Photo byJin Zhu.  

Special Instructions

$5 after 5pm.

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