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.

Claudy Jongstra on art and sustainability

Jananne Al-Ani on the Middle Eastern landscape

Leonor Antunes on the architecture of inspiration

Julia Scher: Predictive Engineering

Jason Lazarus: “At sea” with found photographs

Robert Adams's sobering photographs of clearcutting in the Pacific Northwest

How Mike Mandel created new meaning from old photographs

Mike Mandel’s Baseball-Photographer Trading Cards

Michael Jang’s family snapshots

Catherine Opie’s groundbreaking queer portraiture

Janet Delaney on South of Market

Janet Delaney on hand-painted signs

Judith Joy Ross: Protest the War

Leo Rubinfien: How do you photograph a psychological wound?

An-My Lê: Landscapes of war

Rabih Mroué on “the war against the image”

Michael Jang: The night the Sex Pistols broke up

How Michael Jang photographed the most glamorous celebrities of 1970s Beverly Hills

John Divola: “Time is a verb”

John Divola: Photographing abandoned houses

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