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.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s biometric portraiture

Isamu Noguchi: There’s no such thing as time

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

Richard T. Walker on landscape and desire

Robert Rauschenberg: Erasing the Rules

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

Etel Adnan on art and urgency

Etel Adnan on lightning-strike paintings and words as gestures

Kerry Tribe on empathy in health care

O Grivo’s sculptural orchestra

Bea Nettles’s photographic tarot deck

Judy Chicago: Is there a "Female Aesthetic"?

Sean McFarland: Landscape photography as failed record

Sean McFarland’s metaphysical way of looking

How ORFN’s graffiti inspires Alicia McCarthy

Alicia McCarthy: Visually listening to bands of colors

Lindsey White: How humor threatens us

Liam Everett: The art of obstruction

Christina Kubisch: Discovering new sounds

Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork: The slipperiness of sound

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