The Hockney Interviews brings together expansive conversations held between art world icon David Hockney, who is best known for his large scale, vivid paintings, and pre-eminent curator, Hans Ulrich Obrist. 

Since their meeting in 2006, when Obrist first visited Hockney at his London studio, the conversations span a 16-year period to the present day. Exploring Hockney’s dedicated and prolific practice, his relationship with fellow artists Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon, fervent preoccupation with painting nature, ruminations on new technologies and his love of smoking - Hockney’s musings are as bold and varied as his work. 

The Hockney Interviews is a hardback reading book and intimate portrait of David Hockney, one of the world’s most distinguished living artists. Fully illustrated with artworks spanning the breadth of Hockney’s artistic career. 

Hans Ulrich Obrist (b. 1968) is a world-renowned curator and the artistic director of the Serpentine galleries in London. Alongside his curatorial practice, Obrist has written extensively on and around contemporary art, with a particular interest in the interview format. David Hockney (b. 1937) is one of the most influential and widely recognised artists of our time. A key figure in the pop art movement of the 1960s, Hockney’s work encompasses painting, draughtsmanship, printmaking, stage design, photography, and, more recently, digital design using his iPad. Hockney’s work first gained public attention during his studies at the Royal College of Art (1959—1962), where he was awarded the Gold Medal in recognition of his mastery of drawing and painting. Hockney has lived and worked in Yorkshire and London, UK, Los Angeles, USA, and now resides in Normandy, France.