Salon Jane: Resonance | February 27 - June 28, 2026

For over a decade, the artists of Salon Jane have explored their artwork with the consistent presence of a dedicated working group for critiques, discussion and encouragement. Their meetings are a place to think seriously about photography, challenge the boundaries of the medium, and open new paths of creative expression. While each artist independently develops their own artwork, the Salon’s ongoing dialogues draw unexpected connections and resonance between each other’s ideas and aesthetics.

NUMU is thrilled to present a group exhibition of Salon Jane: Resonance, featuring new works of traditional, alternative process, digital, and mixed media photographic art that highlight the innovation and collective wisdom that emerges from this unique artistic group.

Salon Jane is a six-member artist collective formed in Monterey in 2014. The members are Martha Casanave, Susan Hyde Greene, Jane Olin, Anna Rheim, Robin V. Robinson, and Robin Ward.

ArtNow 2026: Before / Between / Beyond | March 27 - July 19, 2026

New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) invited high school students across Santa Clara County to submit a work of art responding to the theme Before / Between / Beyond. Students were welcome to explore before, between, or beyond as individual ideas or any combination of the three.

Before

We reside in a framework shaped by countless external forces, whether they’re social, cultural, or environmental. Over time, we form patterns of belief and behavior that are passed from person to person. They are shaped by our habits, heritage, memories, surroundings, and historical events. What do they reveal about our society? How have they shaped who we are?

Between

As we move through life, new behaviors and narratives emerge. We choose to let go of some, others we embrace, and a few transform us by giving rise to new ones. When we find ourselves at the threshold of what was and what’s next, we face a choice: to maintain our patterns or to change them. Through self-reflection, we find our path forward; these moments are significant. What does it mean to break a pattern? What compels someone to break or continue a cycle?

Beyond

As we recognize these patterns, how will we use that awareness? Each of us holds the power to shape our own lives and influence our communities. Our awareness becomes meaningful when it leads to action. Our agency lies in the choices we make about who we want to become. What should the future hold?

Reawakening | June 12 - January 3, 2027

This exhibition celebrates the revitalization of Muwekma Ohlone culture, focusing on their efforts to reclaim traditions through youth education and empowerment. Additionally, we strive to provide a platform for the Muwekma to tell their story of cultural connections between neighboring indigenous groups as well as the 2024 Trail of Truth, a sacred journey of the Muwekma Ohlone across the United States that was facilitated and honored through a series of ceremonial relationships with many indigenous tribes along the way. This exhibition seeks to advance the efforts of the Muwekma in land stewardship, which provides resources for regalia making, dance, music, song, language, and traditional healing, while addressing key topics such as land and food sovereignty. The exhibition also illuminates how the land inspires cultural practices and the revitalization of the Chochenyo language. We aim to shed light on the Tribe’s ongoing cultural revival after a century of erasure following the loss of, and the fight to regain, federal recognition.

Made in collaboration with the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe and San Jose State University.

This two-part exhibition will have content in the Mike & Alyce Parsons Reception Gallery from June 12, 2026, through January 3, 2027, and the Spotlight Gallery from July 10 through November 29, 2026

New Additions 2026 | July 31 - September 27, 2026

NUMU is pleased to present New Additions 2026, on view for a limited time and highlighting more than five years of donations of artwork and historical artifacts to our institution. Through the generosity of our community of regional and exhibiting artists, collectors, and keepers of history, we carefully and thoughtfully build our permanent art and history collections to preserve and maintain them for generations to come.

Community Ignition: Partnership and Artmaking in the Disability Arts Community | October 16 - March 21, 2027

The goal of this project is to highlight the Disability Arts Community as a way to reveal how art can be created: in communities, through conversation and support, through interdependence, and within systems of care. The concept of interdependence, or mutual reliance, celebrates asking for assistance, and honors the collaboration that is often present in artistic practice. NUMU provides a venue for conversation and learning to shift perspectives and develop awareness of disability culture and artists with disabilities.

Museums often construct a false separation between art created by artists with disabilities (disabled artists) and artists who do not expressly identify with disability. This exhibition disrupts that expectation by acknowledging that identity is intersectional and that creativity is informed by an artist’s lived experience. NUMU presents art that is made by, for and in collaboration with artists in the Disability Arts Community, celebrating the richness and diversity of the collective.

Images:

Photo by Kike Arnal.

"Ensouled Skies," 2021. Acrylic and carved wood, 16.5" x 17.5" x 4.5." Artist: Holly Lane. On view in New Additions 2026.

Michelle Mantione in Telephone Film (telephonefilm.com). On view in Community Ignition.

Jack Wilson, From Russian Hill (1983), Oil on canvas, Gift of Silvia Moore, 2025.9.1. On view in New Additions 2026