‘Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection’ featuring Josh Kline and Tishan Hsu at San Jose Museum of Modern Art, California, USA

31 March 2025

Until 28 September, San Jose Museum of Art presents ‘Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection’, the first dedicated collection galleries at the Museum featuring the work of Josh Kline and Tishan Hsu. The museum will provide unprecedented access to core works in San José’s only publicly held art collection, inviting a deeper sense of community pride in the collection.

Initiated in 1973 under the guidance of San José artists, SJMA’s collection has grown to reflect their international point of convergence, where dynamic cultural diversity and high-tech industries mix in California soil. 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. Organized into thematic groupings, Tending and Dreaming offers poetic starting points for engaging with ideas woven through the works of almost fifty artists from the Bay Area and beyond, including Ruth Asawa, Martha Atienza, Shilpa Gupta, Yolanda López, and Elias Sime, among many others.

Josh Kline works in installation, video, sculpture, and photography. In his works, he questions how emergent technologies are being used to change human life in the 21st Century. Kline often utilizes the technologies, practices, and forms he scrutinizes—digitization, image manipulation, 3D-printing, commercial and political advertising, productivity-enhancing substances—aiming them back at themselves.

Since the mid-1980s, Tishan Hsu has been at the forefront of exploring the effects of technological transformation, rendering poetic reimaginings of the human body through innovative materials and digital processes. His approach to the intersections of organic and artificial life has made him one of the most prescient voices in contemporary art today.

Find out more via San Jose Museum of Art.

Image: Installation view of 'Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection' at San José Museum of Art, March 7, 2025 – ongoing. Courtesy of San José Museum of Art. Photo by Glen Cheriton.