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.

Anselm Kiefer: “My paintings change”

Larry Sultan discovers his family through photography

Journey through the soundscape of a boiler room with Bill Fontana

Bill Fontana: The makings of a sound sculptor

Robert Frank as a young artist

Will Rogan's Mediums channel artists lost to time

Lieko Shiga on Kitakama village and the 2011 tsunami

Tomás Saraceno: Building “future flying cities” with spiders

Anselm Kiefer: History is a clay

William Kentridge: The Refusal of Time

Marco Breuer: Pushing the boundaries of photography

Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s Janded: Between two cultures

Ursula von Rydingsvard on sculpture and ancestry

Sohei Nishino’s maps trace more than the city

Bruce Conner: It’s All True

Nobuyoshi Araki: Journey through life and death

Akiyoshi Taniguchi’s meditations on photography

Rinko Kawauchi contemplates the small mysteries of life

Tomoko Sawada’s self-portraits create familiar characters

Eikoh Hosoe: Does photography reflect truth?

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