Artist’s Questionnaire

Sarah Sze discusses her practice, pet adoption and winning second prize in a painting contest.

The artist discusses his work routine, selling paintings as a teenager and the first piece that made him cry.

The artist on his new work at the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Alabama, the development of his practice and taking drum lessons from Jimmie Smith.

The 97-year-old artist’s newest works reflect her decades-long interest in cultural artifacts and self-emancipation.

The artist discusses marine life and African American myth from her studio in the Netherlands.

The painter discusses her latest work, her previous career in the New York City welfare department and why she tries to make a brushstroke every day.

The artist reflects on witnessing war up close — and then photographing it at a distance.

The artist discusses violence, AI, his latest work and how he comes up with his ideas.

At his studio in Queens, the artist’s routine includes turkey meatballs, cut-up Crocs and the patience to let his materials set his pace.

The experimental artist discusses Black Southern storytelling, the blues and the guilt-free pleasures of a romance novel.

The restless innovation of the influential painter is on display in a retrospective in California.

Christina Quarles discusses representation, trades and protein shakes.

At 77, the artist’s clay sculptures are fiercer than ever.

The artist, known for the influential Project Row Houses in Houston, discusses music, basketball and art’s ability to improve lives.

The musician, whose new album was released in March, discusses disguises, recording and why they find karaoke so off-putting.

Max Hooper Schneider’s work space in Los Angeles is a cabinet of curiosities, complete with fish tanks, glass mushrooms and Nerds candy.

The author of “Rent Boy” and “Do Everything in the Dark” reflects on a life of writing and art.

Tauba Auerbach’s brilliant, mathematical paintings and sculptures are as playful as they are conceptual.

Claudette Johnson emerged in Thatcher-era England as a prominent Black feminist, only to fall into obscurity. Now, she’s having her first solo show in New York.

The artist was the first Black woman photographer to have her work acquired by MoMA. Now, decades later, as she returns for a solo show, she reflects on her singular career.

For the interdisciplinary artist, watching the cycle of responses to white supremacist violence — outrage turning into apathy — is an anguish as familiar as heartbreak.

The multidisciplinary artist’s work dives into history and legend to explore the fantasies and manipulations underpinning our modern world.

At 93, June Leaf is still fascinated by bodies and machines in motion, and still working every day.

With a pair of new shows centered on his influential collective, General Idea, the Berlin-based multimedia artist reflects on his pioneering practice.

With a new collection of images, the photographer looks at the Rio Grande — the fraught border river between the U.S. and Mexico — through a fresh lens.

At 86, the Japanese pop artist has a lifetime of vivid recollections — some more real than others — and a new show in New York.

As two new retrospectives consider the staggering scope of the artist’s career, she reflects on seven decades of creativity.

The artist is creating work that plays with perspective and scale, drawing the background into focus while blurring his own presence.

Despite her success, the performance artist has chosen a monastic life in upstate New York, where she falls asleep to Canadian television and eats baby food.

The artist’s work looks at the storied past and present of the deeply misunderstood community of South Central Los Angeles and creates new possibilities.

With a new solo show in New York, the Los Angeles-based artist recalls his early career and life during the pandemic.

From these and other wide-ranging materials, Kevin Beasley creates multilayered works that, even when they’re abstract, have much to say about history and identity.

Ahead of his inclusion in this year’s Whitney Biennial, the emerging sculptor reflects on the spiritual power of domestic spaces.

The artist, once one of the youngest members of the famed avant-garde collective Gutai, is showing some of his latest experiments at Hauser & Wirth.

In advance of a show of his drawings at New York’s Pace Gallery, the polymathic performer answered T’s Artist’s Questionnaire.

Ahead of a major five-city show, the artist reflects on the evolution of her practice and her distrust of Amazon.

At 81, the artist is still making clever and cutting work that juxtaposes symbols of American empire with those of Native culture.

With her richly detailed narrative drawings, the artist creates vivid fictional worlds that ask questions about our own, and about the nature of storytelling itself.

At 82, the artist continues to make works that respond to the world around her, whether they comment on the migrant crisis or transform the potatoes she grows in her garden.

With her incisive, boundary-breaking works, the multidisciplinary artist has been exploring the nature of identity, and challenging assumptions about art-making, since the 1980s.

The painter — known for colorful, cartoony works that explore the depths of American depravity — is still pushing the boundaries, but enjoys quiet afternoons on his porch most of all.

For over 50 years, Lynn Hershman Leeson has anticipated and reflected the ways in which technology might change us.

For her latest exhibition, the German artist has transformed the sprawling interior of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris into an eerie meditation on mortality.

Left alone and unconstrained, the British artist has painted throughout the pandemic.

On the eve of her first major retrospective, the artist talks about her past, her process and the benefit of criticism.

The artist’s latest work, for which she made an image nearly every day for almost 14 months, unexpectedly became a document of life at the start of a pandemic.

For decades, Tishan Hsu has explored the ever more salient relationship between technology and the human body.

The artist’s new body of work depicts life outside of the city, in a rural idyll free of the white gaze.

Caroline Kent’s canvases explore the power and limits of language — and challenge the modernist canon of abstraction.

In advance of a new exhibition, the acclaimed Belgian artist discusses his process and how the pandemic has shifted his perspective.

The Belgian artist has a new exhibition of large-scale paintings at David Zwirner Gallery that shows the natural world in and out of focus.

Ahead of a major retrospective in Los Angeles, the Japanese artist discusses his musical education.

Moyra Davey’s work moves freely between photography, video and writing but is united in its unwavering attention to the objects and accidents of everyday life.

Leidy Churchman’s latest show encourages a focused, joyful kind of looking that feels deliberately at odds with our increasingly distracted world.

The artist’s vibrant, writhing sculptures often seem poised on the brink of transformation, an illusion born from her lively, ever-evolving practice.

With a new exhibition, Lisa Yuskavage demonstrates her mastery of her medium and her unique talent for upending its conventions.

Susan Cianciolo’s intuitive, craft-oriented practice has encompassed everything from handmade clothing to an alternative currency.

Ahead of her latest solo show, Huma Bhabha reflects on her towering mixed-media figures, and the strangest object in her studio.

The photographer Pieter Hugo, who has captured scenes from Nigeria to Mexico, takes T inside his studio.

A new exhibition in New York showcases the boundary-pushing, but long overlooked, work of Zilia Sánchez.

Mel Bochner, who has spent half a century making art, revisits one of his early shows for his latest exhibition at Dia:Beacon.

Ahead of a new solo show, Suzanne Jackson talks about her creative routine, her love of jazz music and the worst studio she ever had.

Calvin Marcus’s color-washed works, which feature surfers, bodybuilders and dead fish, defy narrative.

The artist and musician discusses his new photography book, “Our Interference Times,” and his unusual daily routine.

Jacolby Satterwhite, known for his virtual-reality installations and 3-D-printed sculptures, discusses a pair of new shows — and his daily routine.

Robin Rhode uses city walls as his canvas, challenging the idea of creation as a solitary, private act.

The artist has been challenging our notions of identity and selfhood for three decades, but her latest project feels uniquely pressing.

Ahead of the release of his memoir, Peter McGough looks back on 40 years as half of the time-traveling artist duo McDermott & McGough.

The artist, who made his name with his polarizing but masterly portraits of women, discusses his lesser-known paintings.

With her evocative images of printed matter, Leslie Hewitt is breaking down the boundaries between sculpture and photography, past and present.

The pioneering artist, who came to attention with her poured-latex floor works, is still pushing the limits of her medium.

Tschabalala Self’s textile works — which will go on view at MoMA PS1 next month — are inspired by people on the streets of Harlem.

Christine Sun Kim discusses her experimental, sensory-rich process — and her favorite shoes to wear in the studio.

Ruby Neri’s voluptuous ceramic sculptures depict female figures as they dance, talk and ride horses.

Ron Nagle helped pave the way for clay artists to be taken seriously — but he still has a sense of humor. Ahead of a new solo show, he discusses his work, his dog and his TV habits.

Ahead of a new solo show, Paul Anthony Smith discusses his intricate, time-intensive process — and his favorite forms of procrastination.

Ahead of two major shows, the painter Jonas Wood reflects on his early career — and the most unusual object in his studio.

As he prepares for a new solo exhibition in New York, Angel Otero looks back to his childhood home.