diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20231219-153446.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20231219-153446.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..44a858eb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/Fixes-20231219-153446.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+kind: Fixes
+body: remove json patch to leverage bigquery-python improvement
+time: 2023-12-19T15:34:46.843931-08:00
+custom:
+  Author: colin-rogers-dbt
+  Issue: "1055"
diff --git a/dbt/adapters/bigquery/connections.py b/dbt/adapters/bigquery/connections.py
index f9bb791d2..0f2f70f74 100644
--- a/dbt/adapters/bigquery/connections.py
+++ b/dbt/adapters/bigquery/connections.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 import google.auth
 import google.auth.exceptions
-import google.cloud.bigquery as bigquery
+import google.cloud.bigquery
 import google.cloud.exceptions
 from google.api_core import retry, client_info
 from google.auth import impersonated_credentials
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
     DbtRuntimeError,
     DbtConfigError,
 )
+
 from dbt_common.exceptions import DbtDatabaseError
 from dbt.adapters.exceptions.connection import FailedToConnectError
 from dbt.adapters.base import BaseConnectionManager
@@ -63,16 +64,6 @@
 )
 
 
-# Override broken json deserializer for dbt show --inline
-# can remove once this is fixed: https://github.com/googleapis/python-bigquery/issues/1500
-def _json_from_json(value, _):
-    """NOOP string -> string coercion"""
-    return json.loads(value)
-
-
-bigquery._helpers._CELLDATA_FROM_JSON["JSON"] = _json_from_json
-
-
 @lru_cache()
 def get_bigquery_defaults(scopes=None) -> Tuple[Any, Optional[str]]:
     """
diff --git a/tests/functional/adapter/dbt_show/test_dbt_show.py b/tests/functional/adapter/dbt_show/test_dbt_show.py
index 203d7031b..acb54cc47 100644
--- a/tests/functional/adapter/dbt_show/test_dbt_show.py
+++ b/tests/functional/adapter/dbt_show/test_dbt_show.py
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
     limit 5
     """
 
+model_with_null_json_struct = """
+    select (struct<k json>(null)) as null_struct
+"""
+
 
 class TestBigQueryShowLimit(BaseShowLimit):
     pass
@@ -40,7 +44,11 @@ class TestBigQueryShowSqlWorksWithJSONStruct:
     def models(self):
         return {
             "json_struct_model.sql": model_with_json_struct,
+            "null_json_struct_model.sql": model_with_null_json_struct,
         }
 
     def test_sql_header(self, project):
         run_dbt(["show", "--select", "json_struct_model"])
+
+    def test_show_with_null_json_struct(self, project):
+        run_dbt(["show", "--select", "null_json_struct_model"])