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.

Robert Rauschenberg pays tribute to John Cage

Form, growth, behavior: The making of Andrew Kudless’s “bulbous” sculpture

Teresita Fernández harnesses the behavior of fire

Premature mortality: William Kentridge reflects on the AIDS epidemic in South Africa

Beach life: William Kentridge and Tide Table

William Kentridge: transformation with animation

William Kentridge and his animated alter egos

Kerry James Marshall: Requiem for a decade

Kerry James Marshall: Art is a series of visual problems that need to be solved

Completely out of whack: Kerry James Marshall on his murals for SFMOMA

Kerry James Marshall wants to see black people in art, all the time

Kerry James Marshall goes grisaille

Olafur Eliasson: Everyone sees a different rainbow

Ann Hamilton evokes the working class with the color blue

Ann Hamilton gives voice to Charleston’s invisible history

“Un-reading”: Ann Hamilton erases texts to make room for other stories

In the studio with Olafur Eliasson

Experimenting in the lab with Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson’s machine: A phenomenon maker

Olafur Eliasson wants you to slow down and take your time

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