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.

Marlon Mullen: The language of color

Richard Mayhew: "What color is love?"

Twin Walls Mural Company: Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams

Ruth Asawa on her forms and materials

Hung Liu on guns, art, history, forced labor, and taboos

Sahar Khoury on creative repair

Dawoud Bey on visualizing history

Hal Fischer: The Gay Seventies

Tucker Nichols: Flowers For Sick People

Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle on intuition

Nicole Miller: To the Stars

JR on The Chronicles of San Francisco

Cauleen Smith imagines a Black, feminist utopia

Suzanne Lacy: Women fight back

Suzanne Lacy: We Are Here

Rodney McMillian on home and history

The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism

Vija Celmins: Saying the unsayable

Vija Celmins on her life in (and out of) the studio

Etel Adnan on art and urgency

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