Artist Interviews

SFMOMA is committed to partnering with the most forward-thinking artists of our time and bringing their visions to life. Here, in their own words, many of these artists share their creative process and their stories.

Peter Campus on his most famous work and why he hates it

Tony Oursler’s “electronic effigies”: Between two spaces

Vito Acconci wants revolution

Hans Haacke: Fighting the establishment

Peter Campus says, “You can’t see yourself”

Abelardo Morell and the magic of the camera obscura

Liz Deschenes on her camera-less photography

Alison Rossiter gives new life to old photographic paper

Barbara Bosworth looks slowly and observes the landscape

Susan Meiselas on “the ethics of seeing”

Markus Schinwald’s strange prostheses and erotic table legs

John Baldessari on fighting the “photography” label

John Baldessari explains his “strange mind”

Sophie Calle’s voyeuristic portraits of hotel rooms

Mel Bochner transforms a wall with chalk

Sophie Calle on becoming an artist

Ewan Gibbs on his San Francisco drawings

Kateřina Šedá holds the Los Altos World Records

Charles R. Garoian: The teacher who was called to the principal’s office

Jessica Stockholder creates an intersection with the intersection

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