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SUPPORT

Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape is co-organized by Lauren Schell Dickens, chief curator at the San José Museum of Art, and Jodi Throckmorton, chief curator at John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Shebogyan, Wisconsin.

Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape is made possible with lead support from the Teiger Foundation and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The San José Museum of Art presentation is also made possible by the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with generous support from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese, Wanda Kownacki, and Mary Mocas and Marv Tseu.

Young Bay Mud is made possible by the SJMA Exhibitions Fund.Motherboards is made possible by the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with major support from Peggy and Yogen Dalal; generous support from McManis Faulkner; and additional support from Wanda Kownacki.

Motherboards is made possible by the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with major support from Peggy and Yogen Dalal; generous support from McManis Faulkner; and additional support from Wanda Kownacki.

Christine Howard Sandoval: Moving the Plot is made possible by the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with major support from Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese.

Operations and programs at the San José Museum of Art are made possible by principal support from SJMA’s Board of Trustees, and a Cultural Affairs Grant from the City of San José and the Skyline Foundation; by lead support from the Lipman Family Foundation, the Adobe Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Toby and Barry Fernald, Tammy and Tom Kiely, Yvonne and Mike Nevens, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Teiger Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the SJMA Director's Council and Council of 100; and with significant endowment support from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the San José Museum of Art Endowment Fund established by the Knight Foundation at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

IMAGES

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.

Closing Soon (left to right): Pao Houa Her, untitled (real opium, behind opium backdrop) from “The Imaginative Landscape” series, 2020. Pigment print, 52 x 65 inches. Courtesy of the artist; Joanna Keane Lopez, Roadtrip Adobe Theatre of the Bay Area (still), 2025. Two-channel video projection. Courtesy of the artist.

Upcoming Exhibitions (from left to right): Installation view of This Space Is for Lost Time: Hương Ngô at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago, August 10–October 3, 2024. Photo by Tom Van Eynde.; Christine Howard Sandoval, Phonological Sketch II, 2024. Adobe on blind embossed paper mounted to panel, 23-3/4 x 17-3/4 x 5 inches. Image courtesy parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles. © Christine Howard Sandoval. Photo by Ed Mumford.