Art on Walls

Experience the many ways that artists engage with the walls around us. From community-inspired murals to abstract chalk drawings, these artworks use walls to communicate big ideas and transform spaces. In this playlist, explore a variety of the artist projects commissioned for the walls of SFMOMA.

Making a Mural with Liz Hernández

The Living Wall

Twin Walls Mural Company: Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams

Emory Douglas: "Land, bread, housing, justice, and peace"

Sol LeWitt’s Loopy Doopy: The Installation

Time-lapse of Parra’s mural Weirded Out

Parra on getting “weirded out”

Completely out of whack: Kerry James Marshall on his murals for SFMOMA

All things must come to an end: the deinstallation of Sol LeWitt’s SFMOMA murals

Mel Bochner transforms a wall with chalk

How ORFN’s graffiti inspires Alicia McCarthy

Graffiti is a sport, and Barry McGee a sportsman

Jürg Lehni’s extraordinary drawing machine

Emory Douglas: Art for the People