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.

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

AA Bronson and his fictional museum Cornucopia

Let’s talk about sex: AA Bronson pushes critics to consider queer culture

The story of Ernest Cole, a black photographer in South Africa during apartheid

The photographs of South African nightclub bouncer Billy Monk

In Boksburg, David Goldblatt photographs the reality of apartheid

Jim Campbell: Transmitted in light

Naoya Hatakeyama on what’s awe-some

Tiffany Chung: Maps are about people

Akram Zaatari describes Hashem el Madani’s “photography of the working class”

The Futurefarmers stand on one leg, together

Yto Barrada on how the Strait of Gibraltar shapes life in Tangier

Lamia Joreige maps Beirut’s tumultuous past and future

The Futurefarmers on picnics and Powers of Ten

Lamia Joreige on disappearance and memories of war

Adrian Ghenie: Painting a dictator in the moment before his execution

Adrian Ghenie: Attending art school in Communist Romania

Yto Barrada on laziness as resistance

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