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Artist
Sanford Biggers
b. 1970, Los Angeles, California, USA · American · Based in New York, New York
- Morehouse College
- Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
- Syracuse University
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Sculpture
- Textiles
- Installation
Sanford Biggers combines sculpture, quilts, video, music and performance to examine Black history, Buddhism, popular culture and cultural hybridity. Antique quilts, African sculpture and found monuments become sites for revision, often through cutting, recombination or ballistic intervention.
Sculpture; installation; video; performance
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
Artists on Artists: Sanford Biggers on With Pleasure
The Museum of Contemporary Art40 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Imagining Black Diasporas - Sanford Biggers
Major Works
- 2007Blossom
- 2017BAM (Seated Warrior)
- 2012 onwardCodex series
- 2007Lotus
- 2015Laocoön
- 2008Cheshire
- 2019Moon Medicine
- 2021Oracle
- 2018 onwardKintsugi sculptures
- 2015BAM (For Michael)
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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