Sanford Biggers
Sanford Biggers' works integrate film, video, installation, sculpture, drawing, original music and performance. He intentionally complicates issues such as hip-hop, Buddhism, politics, identity and art history in order to offer new perspectives and associations for established symbols. Through a multidisciplinary formal process, and an equally syncretic creative approach, he makes works or "vignettes" that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are conceptual.
A native of Los Angeles, California, Biggers has lived and worked in New York City since 1999. He earned a B.A. degree from Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia, an M.F.A. degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine.
Biggers is a 2008 Creative Capital award winner in the visual arts, and his artwork has been on view in several notable museums and biennials, including Prospect 1. New Orleans, Louisiana; the Tate Modern, London, England; the Whitney Biennial, New York City; The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Illinois; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City.
Biggers' work has been featured in solo exhibitions at The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida; the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts; the Brooklyn Museum, New York City; the SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, California; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland; Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Ohio; the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas; and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California.
He is also an assistant professor in the Columbia University visual arts program in New York City.