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.

Akram Zaatari: Collecting images from the Arab world

Adrian Ghenie started a gallery because he was a “failure”

Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Using graffiti and breakdancing to rebrand a country

Trevor Paglen on the secret history of early Yosemite photography

Parra on getting “weirded out”

Trevor Paglen photographs classified “black sites”

Pablo López Luz on shooting the landscape of Mexico City

Alejandro Cartagena on photographing while walking through dry riverbeds

How Daniela Rossell’s photographs came to be viewed as images of Mexico’s “poster girls of corruption”

Daniela Rossell questions “female territories”

Stephanie Syjuco creates knockoffs of works of art

Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher’s Learning to Love You More: Piggybacking assignments

Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher’s Learning to Love You More: Before web 2.0

Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher’s Learning to Love You More: Instant acceptance

Richard Serra answers: Why make art?

Advice from Richard Serra: Clear away the clutter and do your own thing

How do you take notes? Richard Serra draws his thoughts

Have you seen my bird? Rigo 23’s “found lost bird” posters

From cross-stitch to cake with Gay Outlaw

Hung Liu: There’s dignity in a woman handling a machine

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