The San Jose Museum of Art has a permanent collection of approximately 2,000 20th– and 21st–century artworks including paintings, sculpture, installation, new media, photography, drawings, prints, and artist books. The collection continues to evolve as a set of works reflecting important movements in recent art history, the accomplishments of emerging West Coast artists, acquisitions from our special exhibitions, and other significant works.

Visitors can view works from the collection in the Museum’s galleries, and often our curators create special exhibitions from the collection that explore particular themes or present interesting juxtapositions of works and artists. You can use this website to see some of the collection’s highlights and recent acquisitions.