Matthew Harrison Tedford

Matthew Harrison Tedford is a writer and filmmaker based in San Francisco. He is a regular contributor to KQED (San Francisco’s PBS and NPR affiliate), SF Weekly, and Art Practical, where he writes about contemporary art, film, and history, with a focus on historical memory and landscape. Matthew is currently completing, with co-director Kristen Brown, a feature-length film exploring the nineteenth-century Modoc War through contemporary landscapes.

Latest Articles

Destinations 19/04/2017

Reykjavík: a City of Sculpture Gardens and Public Monuments 

Iceland’s parliament, the oldest functioning legislative body in the world, currently meets in a small brick building in ...

Artworks 20/01/2017

Ana Teresa Fernández Erases the U.S.-Mexico Border

The far northwest corner of Mexico is a bit peculiar. It is both a place of militarization and ...

Destinations 19/08/2016

Andy Goldsworthy Investigates the History of the Presidio of San Francisco

People often think of forests as wholly natural places. In this “wilderness” we sometimes see the world as ...

News 23/06/2016

SFMOMA Reopens With Several Gardens, Terraces, and Galleries for Sculpture

The first piece of work installed in anticipation of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s $610 million ...