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.

Richard Diebenkorn: “The sky took the place of the ocean”

Hilla and Bernd Becher invented a new genre of photography

Sol LeWitt on working with assistants

Petah Coyne: “Materials are a language”

Ellsworth Kelly on Abstraction

Paul Kos: Salt and ice

Paul Kos in the Sierras

Tony Cragg, radical materialist

Tony Cragg’s utilitarian materials

Vik Muniz's images

Vik Muniz on his series The Best of Life.

Stephen Shore ditched school for Warhol’s Factory

Fred Wilson on “degradaria”

Njideka Akunyili Crosby on painting cultural collision

Mildred Howard’s houses hold memories

Richard Learoyd takes us inside his giant homemade camera

Stephen Shore: Taking photographs that “feel like seeing”

The message is for the media: Ant Farm and Media Burn

Doug Hall on his utopian generation

Doug Hall’s giant Tesla coil

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