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.

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

David Best is a burning man

William Allan brings books back to life

Jordan Kantor on the act of looking and looking again

Graffiti is a sport, and Barry McGee a sportsman

Will Rogan: “We are on this planet that’s spinning around the sun and it’s totally insane”

The legendary Wayne E & Wayne R show

Kamau Amu Patton and the machine that’s always learning

A large and flickering grid of light by Jim Campbell

Klara Kristalova on the darker side of childhood

Talking trash, over Skype, with Tiago Carneiro da Cunha

Daniel Schwartz: “My university is the road”

Traveling “through the eye of history” with photographer Daniel Schwartz

Jim Goldberg: Why do we keep making the same mistakes?

Jim Goldberg’s compassionate lens

Richard Misrach: Graffiti in the wake of Hurricane Katrina

Photographer Jacob Aue Sobol in Greenland

Rosana Castrillo Diaz on finding meaning in the everyday

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