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.

Spencer Finch takes viewers from technicolor to black and white

Jeremy Blake: A waking dream

Christian Jankowski needs subtitles for Silicon Valley Talks

Jonn Herschend on finding beauty behind the scenes

Larger than life! David Wilson and his sixteen-foot-high ink drawing Frog Woman Rock

Alec Soth photographs loneliness in Silicon Valley

Soul food for the brain: Chris Johanson and public sculpture

Mike Mills finds the past in the present, interviewing the “futurists” of Los Altos

Where did all the art go? Jonn Herschend and stories of the SFMOMA evacuation

Zarouhie Abdalian makes social sound in downtown Oakland

Fake snacks and jack-o’-lanterns: Josh Faught takes us to the Neptune Society Columbarium

Open your eyes! Rediscover San Francisco with David Wilson’s Arrivals

Gu Wenda on the artist as peacemaker

How Gu Wenda turns hair and glue into works of art

Gates of steel: Mark di Suvero and his path to welding

Bow and arrow to the heart: Mark di Suvero’s love for the Golden Gate

Mark di Suvero likes to work with his hands

From Revlon to Robert Smithson: Mary Heilmann finds inspiration everywhere

Lynn Hershman Leeson’s seductive chat bot

Mapping nine centuries of a Romanian city with Tiffany Chung

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