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 multi-disciplinary formal process, and an equally syncretic creative approach, he makes works or “vignettes” that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are conceptual.

 

Sanford Biggers was born (1970) and raised in Los Angeles, and currently lives and works in New York. He was awarded the 2017 Rome Prize in Visual Arts. He has had solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2018), the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2016), the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (2012) and the Brooklyn Museum (2011), among many others. His work has been shown in important institutional group exhibitions including the Menil Collection (2008) and the Tate Modern (2007), as well as recent exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2017) and the Barnes Foundation (2017). Biggers’ work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Everson Museum, Syracuse; the Bass Museum, Miami Beach; the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C.; the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; and the Legacy Museum, Montgomery, among many others. His work is also included in major international private and corporate collections such as UBS.  Sanford Biggers’ work has been the subject of nearly twenty museum group and solo exhibitions in 2019, including ICA Boston, Tufts University, Phillips Collection (D.C.), Stanford University, American Academy in Rome and numerous others. The artist has a museum solo exhibition of his quilt-based artworks at The Bronx Museum of the Arts (April 7, 2020 – April 4, 2021) Codeswitch. The exhibition is organized by Bronx Museum Chief Curator Sergio Bessa and Chief Curator of the Visual Arts at the Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans) Andrea Andersson.  The exhibition will travel and be accompanied by a publication.

Born in 1970 in Los Angeles, CA; lives and works in New York City

 

EDUCATION

 

1999
Masters in Fine Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

 

1998
The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

 

1997
Maryland Institute of College of Art, Baltimore, MD

 

1992
Bachelor of Arts, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA

 

1991
Syracuse University (Department of International Programs Abroad), Florence Italy

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Patching Voyages, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
Of many waters…, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA,

 

2021
Intersections—Sanford Biggers: Mosaic, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Art in Focus, Rockefeller Plaza and Art Production Fund, New York, NY
Contra/Diction, Center for African American Studies Gallery, Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA

 

2020
CODESWITCH, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY (2020 – 2021); California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2021 – 2022); Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (2022).
Soft TruthsMarianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

 

2019
Sanford Biggers, Chazen Art Museum, Madison, WI
Quadri ed Angeli, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Sanford Biggers, Tufts University, Medford, MA
“Afro Pick” by Sanford Biggers, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

 

2018
Falk Visiting Artist: Sanford Biggers, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

 

2017
Selah, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

 

2016
Subjective Cosmology, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
NEW/NOW: Sanford Biggers, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Hither and Yon, Massimo De Carlo Gallery, London, UK
Sanford Biggers: the pasts they brought with them, Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL
Sanford Biggers: Laocoön, University of Louisville Hite Art Institute, Louisville, KY

 

2015
Sanford Biggers: Matter, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

 

2014
Sanford Biggers: Shuffle & Shake, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
3 Dollars & 6 Dimes, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
Danpatsu, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Vex, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Floating World, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NY

 

2013
Codex, VCUarts Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA
Sugar, Pork, Bourbon, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy

 

2012
Codex, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL
The Cartographer’s Conundrum, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA

 

2011
Sweet Funk: An Introspective Survey, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
Cosmic Voodoo Circus, Sculpture Center, New York, NY

 

2010
Moon Medicine, Contemporary Arts Forum. Santa Barbara, CA

 

2009
Constellation (Stranger Fruit), Harvard OFA
Blossom. Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Peculiar Institutions, Solvent Space. Richmond, VA

 

2008
Sanford Biggers, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY

 

2007
Blossom, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO

 

2006
Freedom and Other Seldom Travelled Roads, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Notions, Kenny Schachter Rove, London, UK

 

2005
The Afronomical Way, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
New Work, Triple Candie, New York, NY

 

2004
Sanford Biggers, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Both/And Not Either/Or, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

 

2002
Creation/Dissipation, Trafo Gallery, Budapest Hungary
Afro Temple, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Psychic Windows, Matrix Gallery, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (catalog)

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Touching Roots: Blackness and Ancestral Legacies in the Americas, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA

 

2022
Reimagining: New Perspectives, UBS Art Gallery, New York, NY
 
Garmenting: Costume and Contemporary Art, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Mural unveiling for Unframed: Sanford Biggers, Arts Council New Orleans and The Helis Foundation, New Orleans, LA.
Temporary Atlas: Mapping the Self in the Art Today, MOSTYN, Wales, UK
Heroic Bodies, Rudolph Tegner Museum, Dronningmølle, Denmark
A Gateway to Possible Worlds: Art and Science Fiction, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France (forthcoming)
The Colour of Anxiety: Race, Sexuality and Disorder in Victorian Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK (forthcoming)

 

2021
Parallel Lines: New Textile Masterworks Inspired by Geometry, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN.
Unframed: Sanford Biggers, Arts Council New Orleans and The Helis Foundation, New Orleans, LA
Abstranded: Fiber and Abstraction in Contemporary Art at Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Ω (Ohm), The Electricity Factory, Den Haag, NL
Break the Mold: New Takes on Traditional Art Making, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Mandala Lab, Rubin Museum, New York, NY
Well/Being: An Exhibition on Healing and Repair, University Art Museum, Albany, NY
Eclipse at Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece
The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Craft Front & Center, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

 

2020
Radical Tradition: American Quilts and Social Change, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Uptown Triennial 2020, Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY
Ubuntu: Five Rooms from the Harry David Collection, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Athens, Greece
Sculpturally Distanced, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO
Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Canon, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Polyphonic: Celebrating PAMM’s Fund for African American Art, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
Say It Loud, The Denison Museum, Granville, OH
Barring Freedon, The Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY

 

2019
The Academic Body, American Academy in Rome, Italy
Interchanges: Cross Collection Conversations, North Carolina, Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
In Plain Sight, Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Artists As Innovators, New York Foundation for the Arts, Stony Brook, NY
Messengers: Artists as Witnesses, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
American African American, Phillips Collection, New York, NY
Group Exhibition, Bronx Museum, New York, NY
Less is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
I am Hip to my Hop. I Know Why I Move (inaugural exhibition), Het HEM Museum, Amsterdam
Get Up, Stand Up Now, Somerset House, Strand, London
America Will Be!: Surveying the Contemporary Landscape, Dallas
Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Figuring the Floral, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
Unbroken Current, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
20 and Odd: The 400- Year Anniversary of 1619, Columbia University, New York, NY

 

2018
Black Value, Fondazione Biagiotti Progetto Arte in collaboration with the American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
Cinque Mostre, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
RESPECT: Hip-Hop Style & Wisdom, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration, The Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery, AL
Reclamation! Pan-African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
Surface/Depth, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
In terms of collage, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Milwaukee Sculpture, Milwaukee Sculpture Outdoor Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Open Spaces, Kansas City, MO
For Freedoms, 50 State Initiative,
Soundlines of Contemporary Art, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Yerevan, Armenia
Moving Visuals, David C. Driskell Center Gallery, College Park, MD
Remember This, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Call & Response: Recent Acquisitions from the Collection, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL

 

2017
Talking Pictures: Camera Phone Conversations Between Artists, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
DRAW/Boston, MassArt, Boston, MA
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Uptown, The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY
Maker, Maker, Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
No burden as heavy, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Victory over the Sun: The Poetics and Politics of Eclipse, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
Detroit 67: Perspectives, Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
ProjectArt Presents: My Kid Could Do That, Kimpton Eventi Hotel, New York, NY
American African American, Phillips Auctioneers, London, UK
Innovators and Activists: Celebrating Three Decades of New York State Council of the Arts/NYFA FellowshipsTraveling Exhibition 2017-2020: SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY; SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY; Alfred University, Alfred, NY; SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY; SUNY Plattsburg, Plattsburg, NY; Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; Westchester Community College Center for the Arts, Valhalla, NY

 

2016
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
The Nest, an exhibition of art and nature, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Hateful Things / Resilience, De Pree Art Center Hope College, Holland, MI
Africans in America, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

2015
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
SAIC 150th Anniversary Show, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Piece by Piece, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Wild Noise: Artwork from The Bronx Museum of the Arts and El Museo Nacional de La Habana, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
Bring in the Reality, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
Pilgrimage Dun Huang – First International City Sculpture Exhibition, Architectural Society of China, Dun Huang, China
POP Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art, 21c Durham, NC
Building a Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

 

2014
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Amerika, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
Camera as Release, JP Morgan Chase Collection at Paris Photo, Paris, France
The Moment. The Backdrop. The Persona., Girls’ Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Metabolic Bodies, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL

 

2013
Americana, Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
Soft Pictures, Fondazione Sandrette Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
The Shadows Took Shape, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Nu Age Hustle, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
Missed Connection, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
Honey, I Rearranged the Collection, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY

 

2012
Dark Flow Lurking, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
a small world… (installation on view from the permanent collection), The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Transmission LA: AV Club, Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles, CA
African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center, David C. Driskell Center, College Park, MD
Contemporary Mandala: New Audiences, New Forms, Emory University Visual Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
US Embassy in Tokyo Exhibition for Ambassador John V. Roos, Tokyo, Japan

 

2011
The Bearden Project, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY
15 x15, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Black Sound, White Cube, Kunstquariter Benthanien, Berlin, Germany.
Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, Bronx Museum of Arts, New York, NY
Infinite Mirror, Syracuse University Art Galleries (and traveling), Syracuse, NY
Sweetcake Enso, Village Zendo, New York, NY
2010 Grains of Emptiness, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
Signs of Life: Ancient Knowledge in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Reflection, Nathan A. Bernstein Gallery, New York, NY
Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Progress Reports – Art in an Age of Diversity, Iniva, London, UK
Spirit Up! Event Notation and the Invocation of Spirit in Contemporary Art. CCS Bard, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY

 

2010
Searching for the Heart of Black Identity, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft

 

2009
30 Seconds Off an Inch, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Americana, New Society for Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Passages, Revisiting Histories: Sanford Biggers + Andrea Geyer & Simon J. Ortiz, Lambent Foundation, New York, NY
Intrinsic Trio: Biggers, Gilliam and Scott. Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor, Katonah Museum of Art, Bedford NY
Jack Wolgin Competition Finalists, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Carnival Within, Uferhalle, Berlin, Germany
Hidden Cities, Stephen Vittielo and Perrgrine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

 

2008
Prospect 1: US Biennial. Old US Mint. New Orleans, LA
Nippon in Black, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
Unknown Pleasures, Aspen Museum of Art. Aspen, CO
Into the Trees. Art Omi. Ghent, NY C
Shuffle. Schloss Solitude. Stuttgart, Germany

 

2007
Illuminations, curated by Lucy Askew and Ben Borthwick. Tate Modern, London, UK
3 Day Museum, Okinawa Museum, Okinawa, Japan
Performa 07; The Performance Art Biennial. New York, NY
Pretty Baby, Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, TX
For the Love of the Game, The Amistad Center for Arts and Culture. Hartford, CT
Black Light/White Noise. Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
Intelligent Design. Momenta, New York, NY
Urbanity. Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany

 

2006
New York, Interrupted. PKM Gallery, Beijing, China.
The Black Moving Cube: Black Figuration & The Moving Image, The Tate Britain, London, UK
Fountains. D’Amelio Terras. New York, NY
Twisted Roots. WPA/ Corcoran & DCAC. Washington, DC.
Everybody Dance, The Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts
Art Rock, Rockerfeller Center, New York, NY
Black Alphabet, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

 

2005
D’Afrique d’Asie, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY (traveling)
Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

 

2004
Join Us (Calls of Ecstasy from the Edge of Oblivion), Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO

 

2003
Somewhere Better Than This Place, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Kuti, The New Museum, New York, NY
Shuffling the Deck, Princeton Museum of Art, Princeton, NJ
The Commodification of Buddhism, Bronx Museum, New York, NY
Black Belt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

 

2002
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Family, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

 

2001
One Planet Under a Groove, Bronx Museum, New York, NY
Zoning, The Project, New York, NY
Freestyle, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Altoid’s Curiously Strong Collection, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, NY

 

2000
Full Service, Kenny Schachter, New York, NY

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Weis, Natalie “Review: Sanford Biggers’ Codeswitch creates new meaning from old quilts”, WFPL, April 2, 2022.
Scott, Chadd “Folk Art, Fine Art and Fabric Come Together in Louisville”, Forbes, March 13, 2022.

Finkel, Jori “Mapping a Bold Vision for the California African American Museum”, New York Times, February 8, 2022.
Maneker, Marion “The South is a Place of Transformation”, December 21, 2021.
Bejamin Suttin “Miami Beach residents vote to aquire
Farah Al Quasismi works for public art collection”, Devember , 2021.
Ashley Ponter “Artists win awards for highlighting life on the border and reclaiming African art”, December 3, 2021.

Mark Jenkins “At the Phillips Collection, a visual ‘conversation’ between the art of Europe, Africa and Japan”, November 17, 2021
Gabriella Angeleti. “Sanford Biggers and Tanya Aguiñia win $250, 000 Heinz award”, November 18, 2021.
Leah Faye Cooper. “Style for the Ages”, Bazaar, November 3, 2021

Whyte, Murray. “MFA’s ‘Fabric of a Nation’ pieces together American history through the quietly radical power of quilts”, The Boston Globe, October 21, 2021.

Murphy, Yume. “ONE WORK: SANFORD BIGGERS’S “7 HEAVENS””, Art in America, September 8, 2021.
Will Heinrich. “Teaching a New Inclusiveness at The School”, New York Times, August 12, 202
Christopher Knight. “Review: Do you see the smile? Why Sanford Biggers’ painting will put one on your face”, Los Angeles Times, August 10, 2021.
Carolina A. Miranda. “Newsletter: The Virginia Museum of Fine Art’s ‘Dirty South’ revels in Black Southern culture”, Los Angeles Times, August 7, 2021.
Berg, Allison. “Sanford Biggers Returns to California With a Homespun Medium”, Cultured, July 29, 2021.
Gilman, Amy. “The Era of the Visionary Museum Director Is Over … or It Should Be”, Hyperallergic, July 27, 2021.
Schwendener, Martha. “Sculpture Transplanted to the Gardens”, The New York Times, July 1, 2021.
Cotter, Holland. “Outdoor Art, Summer 2021”, The New York Times, July 3, 2021.
Chang, Richard. “Huge new ‘Oracle’ greets Rockefeller Center visitors in New York”, msn, June 5, 2021.
Bauso, Lisa. “13 New Public Art Installations In Nyc June 2021”, Untapped New York, June 2021.

Smith, Lilly. “7 Must-See Art Installations To Visit This Summer”, Fast Company, June 4, 2021.
Mohn, Tanya. “In New York and More, Public Art Is Taking on Thorny Social Issues”, The New York Times, May 19, 2021.
Smith, Melissa. “5 Things to Do This Weekend “, The New York Times, May 13, 2021.
McGreevy, Nora. “This Monumental ‘Oracle’ Statue in NYC Subverts Traditional Sculpture”, Smithsonian Magazine, May 11, 2021.
Cascone, Sarah. Artist Sanford Biggers Explains How Our Misunderstanding of Classical Sculpture Inspired His Rockefeller Center Takeover”, ArtNet News, May 7, 2021.
Scott, Chadd. “A Face Not Seen Before: Sanford Biggers ‘Lady Interbellum’ At SCAD Museum Of Art”, Forbes, March 30, 2021.
Samuelsson, Marcus. “Tips from the top: chef/restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson’s guide to New York”, Financial Times, March 22, 2021.
“SCAD deFINE ART 2021 Announces Virtual and Location-based Programming”
Art & Object, February 2021.
Mdivani, Nina. “Quilts as Cultural Maps: Sanford Biggers at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC”, Arte Fuse, January 9, 2021.
Angeleti, Gabriella. “Death row inmate designs garden installation by instructing university students through letters”, The Art Newspaper, January 8, 2021.
Sharp, Sarah Rose. “The Subversive Power of Quilting”, Hyperallergic, December 21, 2020.
Armstrong, Annie. “Startup consultant and collector George Wells gives Morehouse College a million- dollar art collection”, The Art Newspaper, December 15, 2020.
Ludel, Wallace. “Miami Beach public votes to acquire Sanford Biggers quilt for public art collection” The Art Newspaper, December 8, 2020.
Durón, Maximilíano, Claire Selvin, Tessa Solomon. “ARTnews in Brief: Tiwani Contemporary Now Represents Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers)—and More from December 8, 2020”, Artnews, December 7, 2020.
Routhier, Jessica Skwire. “ Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch”, Antiques and the Arts Weekly, November 24, 2020.
Smee, Sebastian. “At 100, the Phillips Collection doesn’t seem to have aged”, The Washington Post, November 24, 2020.
Brackens, Diedrick Code-Switching in Art and Craft: Sanford Biggers in Conversation with Diedrick Brackens, Interview Magazine, October 17, 2020.
Greenberger, Alex. “Art in General, Crucial New York Alternative Space, to Close Because of Covid-19”, ArtNews, October 15, 2020.
Allen, Lila. “Sanford Biggers Uses Traditional Quilting to Issue a New Message”, Metropolis, October 12, 2020.
Kenney, Nancy. “Rockefeller Brothers Fund plans $1.5m in grants to help New York museums promote diverse artists”, The Art Newspaper, September 22, 2020.
Cascone, Sarah and Caroline Goldstein. “25 Shows to See Across the US as Museums Reopen, From Jacob Lawrence’s Genius at the Met to an Epic Mexican Masterpiece in Dallas”, Artnet News, September 18, 2020.
Di Liscia, Valentina. “Guerrilla Girls and Julie Mehretu Among 60+ Artists Helping You “Plan Your Vote”, Hyperallergic, September 14, 2020.
Tauer, Kristen. “First Survey of Sanford Biggers’ Quilts on View at Bronx Museum”, WWD, September 10, 2020.
Mantai, Joshen. “Sanford Biggers / The Interplay of Narrative and Linguistics in Quilting”, Flaunt, September 9, 2020.
Rodney, Seph. “In His New Works, Sanford Biggers Finds a Future Ethnography”, Hyperallergic, September 8, 2020.
Goldstein, Caroline. “Wangechi Mutu, Patti Smith, and 62 Other Artists Created Images for a Get-Out-the-Vote Campaign Ahead of the US Elections—See Them Here”, Artnet News, September 10, 2020.
Angeleti, Gabriella. “Sanford Biggers show will highlight the unlikely role played by quilts in helping slaves flee to free states”, The Art Newspaper, September 8, 2020.
Crawford, Amy. Sanford Biggers’ Quilts Carry Secret Messages”, Smithsonian Magazine, September 2020.
Mitter, Siddhartha. “Cracking Codes With Sanford Biggers”, The New York Times, August 14, 2020.
Selvin, Claire. “Hirshhorn Adds New Sculptures to Collection and More: Morning Links from August 17, 2020”, ArtNews, August 17, 2020.
Goldstein, Caroline. “Jeff Koons, Marina Abramović, and 200 Other Artists Designed Flags That Are Now Flying at New York’s Rockefeller Center”, Artnet News, August 4, 2020.
“How These Seven Artists Use Their Work To Call For Change”, Cultured Magazine, June 29, 2020.
Sutton, Benjamin. “What Sold during Armory Week”, Artsy, March 9, 2020.
Goldstein, Caroline. “Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at the 2020 Armory Show in New York”, Artnet News, March 9, 2020.
Carrigan, Margaret. “New York’s Armory Show sees solid sales despite coronavirus risk”, The Art Newspaper, March 5, 2020.
Battaglia, Andy, Maximiliano Duron, Alex Greenberger, “‘It Can Hit Us, But It Won’t Defeat Us’: Armory Show Proves Resilient in Face of Coronavirus Fears and Complications”, Artnews, March 4, 2020.
Budds, Diana. “Inside the powerfully expressive world of maximalism”, Curbed, February 28, 2020.
“From Goya to Niki de Saint Phalle: 33 Essential Museum Shows and Biennials to See This Spring”, Artnews, February 25, 2020.
Patel, Alpesh Kantilal. “Using Antique Quilts, Sanford Biggers Creates An Afrofuturist History Of The Underground Railroad”, Art In America, February 3, 2020.
“Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at Art Basel in Miami Beach 2019”, Artnet News, December 9, 2019.
Ludel, Wallace. “Helen Moesworth to Collaborate With Jack Shainman on Summer Programming”, The Art Newspaper, November 14, 2019.
Selvin, Claire. “Curator Helen Molesworth Joins Forces with Getty Center for ‘Radical Women’ Podcast”, Artnews, November 13, 2019.
Keener, Katherine. “Recording Artists: A New Podcast Highlighting Women Artists”, Art Critique, November 13, 2019.
“Getty Launches ‘Recording Artists: Radical Women’ Podcast”, Artfixdaily, November 12, 2019.
Whyte, Murray. “At Tufts, Sanford Biggers Takes Aim at Violence Against African-Americans”, The Boston Globe, November 7, 2019.
Kenney, Nancy. “Columbia University Exhibition Retells the Story of America by Foregrounding ‘Black Genius’”, The Art Newspaper, September 3, 2019.
Das, Jareh. “Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers at Somerset House”, Ocula, July 5, 2019.
Franklin, Sydney. “Six Big-name Teams Shortlisted for National Pulse Memorial and Museum”, The Architect’s Newspaper, May 31, 2019.
“Artist Sanford Biggers to open 2019 Anderson Ranch Summer Series”, The Aspen Times, May 16, 2019.
Weber, Jasmine. “Art Movements.”, Hyperallergic, April 18, 2019.
Armstrong, Annie. “’Because Art Uplifts!’: New York Foundation for the Arts Inducts Sanford Biggers, Karl Kellner, Min Jin Lee to Hall of Fame”, Artnews, April 12, 2019.
Armstrong, Annie. “Dallas Art Museum Adds Eight Works to Collection with Dallas Art Fair Acquisiton Fund”, Artnews, April 11, 2019.
Armstrong, Christopher Andrew. “Bronx Gala | Bronx Museum of the Arts”, Flaunt, April 9, 2019.
Schneider, Tim. “’It Allows Them All to Freak Out’: Artist Sanford Biggers on Collaborating With Visionary Musicians to Form an ‘Afrofuturist Boy Band’”, Artnet News, April 5, 2019.
“Sanford Biggers’s Futuristic Funk Comes to the Kennedy Center”, The Art Newspaper, April 3, 2019.
Goldstein, Caroline. “Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at the 2019 Armory Show in New York”, artnet news, March 11, 2019.
“Art Industry News”, artnet news, March 8, 2019.
Selvin, Claire. “Performa Launches Online Platform for Streaming New and Archived Works”, Artnews, March 7, 2019.
“’Lines of Fracture’ at David Castillo Gallery, Miami”, Artnews, February 28, 2019.
“From the Archives: Sanford Biggers on ‘Juggling Cultural Signs,’ in 2000”, Artnews, December 21, 2018.
“David Castillo Gallery to present works by stellar group of artists at Art Basel Miami Beach”, Artdaily.org, November 2018.
Jenkins, Dorothy. “Art of Black Miami to celebrate with neighborhood fairs, festivals”, Miami Herald, November 28, 2018.
Sheets, Hilarie M. “Empty Nesters Donsize, but There’s Always Room for Art”, The New York Times, November 27, 2018.
da Fonseca-Wollheim, Corinna. “Review: In ‘Place,’ a Composer Questions His Comfort, and Power”, The New York Times, October 12, 2018.
Cohn, Gabe. “Peggy Cooper Cafritz Leaves Collection to Two Arts Institutions”, The New York Times, October 10, 2018.
Abney, Nina Chanel. “Peggy Cooper Cafritz Bequeaths Major Collection to Harlem’s Studio Museum”, Artforum, October 9, 2018.
Neuendorf, Henri. “Here are the 300 Artists Making Billboards for Every US State as Part of Hank Willis Thomas’s Midterm Election Project”, Artnet News, October 9, 2018.
Neuendorf, Henri. “Collector Peggy Cooper Cafritz Bequeaths More Than 600 Works to the Studio Museum and Duke Ellington School of the Arts”, Artnet News, October 9, 2018.
Anderson, Lindsey. “Get to Know Sculpture Milwaukee artist Sanford Biggers”, Milwaukee Magazine, August 10, 2018.
Cascone, Sarah. “From Nick Cave to Janelle Monae, Kansas City’s New Biennial Mingles Art and Music for a Midwestern Extravaganza”, Artnet news, August 9, 2018.
“The Bass Acquires works by Sanford Biggers, Mika Rottenberg, Lawrence Weiner, Among Others”, Artforum, July 31, 2018.
Sutton, Benjamin. “Baltimore Museum of Art Acquires 23 Major Works and a Lucian Freud Reaches $29.4M at Sotheby’s”, Hyperallergic, June 28, 2018.
Kane, Dawn. “Weatherspoon Art Museum acquires significant works”, News & Record, June 25, 2018.
Swartz, Anne. “The Pattern and Decoration Zeitgeist”, Hyperallergic, June 12, 2018.
Wild, Matt. “All 21 Sculpture Milwaukee 2018 Sculptures, Ranked”, Milwaukee Record, June 5, 2018.
“Sanford Biggers received a 2018 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award”, St. Louis American, June 5, 2018.
Fenske, Sarah. “Largest Public Art Campaign in US History Will Place Billboards in MO”, Riverfront Times, June 4, 2018.
Schumacher, Louise. “Friday’s the unveiling for Sculpture Milwaukee on Wisconsin Ave.; here’s a first look”, Journal Sentinel, June 1, 2018.
Donelan, Charles. “Manjari Sharma’s ‘Darshan’”, Santa Barbara Independent, May 30, 2018.
Halio, Grace. “42 Artists Donate Works to Sotheby’s Auction Benefitting the Studio Museum in Harlem”, Art News, May 3, 2018.
Dafoe, Taylor. “A First Look Inside the New Alabama Museum Boldly Confronting Slavery and Its Brutal Legacy”, Artnet News, April 25, 2018.
Selvin, Claire. “Here’s the Artist List for Open Spaces Kansas City 2018”, Art News, April 13, 2018.
Miller, James H. “Alabama memorial confronts America’s racist history”, The Art Newspaper, April 16, 2018.
Valenine, Victoria. “Art & Commerce: Scenes From the Armory Show 2018”, Culture Type, March 16, 2018.
Goldstein, Caroline & Henri Neuendorf. “Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—at the 2018 Armory Show”, Artnet News, March 12, 2018.
“Armory Show Highlights and Lowlights 2018 Round-Up”, Artlyst, March 11, 2018.
Schultz, Abby. “The Changing World of Art Financing”, PENTA, March 8, 2018.
Greenberger, Alex. “David Castillo Turns Its Entire Armory Show Booth—Even the Floor—Over to Sanford Biggers”, Art News, March 7, 2018.
Laster, Paul. “Dubbed ‘Under-Sung’ by the New Yorker, Sanford Biggers Is on a Roll”, Garage Magazine, February 1, 2018.
Kiefer, Ross. “Melding Textile and Tradition at the Weatherspoon”, The Carolinian, January 17, 2018.
Cunningham, Vinson. “The Playful, Political Art of Sanford Biggers”, The New Yorker, January 2018.
Valentine, Victoria. “Culture Talk: Arnold Lehman on Curating ‘American African American,’ a Selling Exhibition at Phillips London”, Culture Type, November 1, 2017.
Friedrich, Michael. “At the Brooklyn Museum, New Research on Lynching in America Dialogues with the Art”, Hyperallergic, October 1, 2017.
Mitter, Siddhartha. “At ‘Fictions’ in Harlem, Young Black Artists Are on Fire”, The Village Voice, September 13, 2017
Boucher, Brian. “’It’s Hard to Look Back’: Why MacArthur Genius Bryan Stevenson Is Building America’s First Slavery Museum”, ArtNet News, August 31, 2017.
Olson, Carly. “Sanford Biggers Makes Art Out of Antique Quilts”, Architectural Digest, August 31, 2017.
Agitprop, T. “5 Artists Respond to: Charlottesville”, The New York Times, August 29, 2017.
Mitter, Siddhartha. “Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, at the Brooklyn Museum”, The Village Voice, August 29, 2017.
Uszerowicz, Monica. “When Artists Carry the Burden of History”, Hyperallergic, August 20, 2017.
Luongo, Michael T., “Detroit Museums Examine the Riots That Changed the City”, The New York Times, August 13, 2017.
Goba, Katie. “Brooklyn Museum’s The Legacy of Lynching Exhibit”, Kings County Politics, July 27, 2017.
Hereford, Sharee. “Russell Simmons’ Art Life Gala Takes a Political Turn: ‘There’s a Lot of Bulls—Going on in the Government”, The Boombox, July 20, 2017.
Barylski, Nicole. “’Art For Life’ Raises Over $1.1 Million For Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation”, Hamptons.com, July 2017.
“Art For Life 2017”, Hamptons Magazine, July 17, 2017.
“Chuck D, Bozoma Saint John, Stephen Hill Honored at Russell Simmons’ Art For Life Benefit in the Hamptons”, Human Nature Magazine, July 17, 2017.
Goldchain, Michelle. “Hawkins Ferry House to host contemporary art gallery for MOCAD”, Curbed Detroit, July 14, 2017.
“What’s Going On”, Our Time Press, July 13, 2017.
Holliday Smith, Rachel. “Exhibit on History of Lynchings in America Coming to Brooklyn Museum”, DNA Info, July 13, 2017.
Smith, Roberta. “An Exhibition Worth Thousands of Words”, The New York Times, July 6, 2017.
Smith, Zadie. “Who owns black pain? Getting In and Out”, Harper’s Magazine (cover), July 2017.
Jones, Kellie. “South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s”, Duke University Press, June 2017.
Swanson, Carl. “How to Tell If Your Child Is a Future Art Star”, Vulture Magazine, April 27, 2017.
Greenberger, Alex. “Rome Prize Names 2017-18 Winners, Including Sanford Biggers and Rochelle Feinstein”, ArtNews, April 24, 2017.
“Sanford Biggers at MOCAD”, Contemporary Art Daily, January 1, 2017.
Dafoe, Taylor. “Fairly Curated”, Art + Auction, December 2016.
Meixner, Christiane. “Art Basel Miami Beach”, Messen, December 2016.
Hudson, Tom. “The Sunshine Economy: Art and the Business at Art Basel”, National Public Radio, December 2016.
Jackie Gutierrez-Jones. “The 15 must-see galleries at Art Basel Miami 2016”, Time Out Magazine, December 2016.
Rodriguez, Rene. “Art Basel 2016 opens to smaller but enthusiastic crowds”, Miami Herald, November 2016.
Jacobs, Melissa. “Art’s Silver Lining”, Luxe Magazine, November/December 2016.
Robinson, Kenya. “Kenya (Robinson) on the Fate of Excellence”, Blouin Art Info, October 3, 2016.
Quiles, Daniel. “Sanford Biggers: Subjective Cosmology”, Artforum, September 2016.
Stryker, Mark. “Sanford Biggers at MOCAD: Meditations on race, identity, art”, Detroit Free Press, September 5, 2016.
Fortier, Christopher. “N.Y. artist will create exhibit made of sand in New Britain”, New Britain Herald, September 9, 2016.
Weiss, Haley. “Artists at Work: Sanford Biggers”, Interview Magazine, August 16, 2016.
Sargent, Antwaun. “[Exclusive] Fat Albert: A Modern Trojan Horse?”, The Creators Project, August 16, 2016.
Noor, Tausif. “Battle Hymn of the Republic: The Measure of Kehinde Wiley in the American South”, Momus, July 13, 2016.
Ten Have, Mieke. “Rewriting History: With his powerful visual language, artist Sanford Biggers takes on racial injustice through his socially charged works”, Culture Magazine, May 2016.
DeLand, Lauren. “Sanford Biggers”, Art in America, May 25, 2016.
Havens, Sara. ‘Fat Albert’-inspired controversial artwork lands at the Cressman Center on Wednesday”, Louisville Insider, May 2, 2016.
Kramer, Elizabeth. “Monumental art – in the image of ‘Fat Albert’”, Courier-Journal, May 18, 2016.
Schmidlin, Charlie. “Body Paintings and Activist Art In the Arizona Desert”, The Creators Project, May 18, 2016.
Quiles, Daniel. “Chicago Reviews: Sanford Biggers”, Artforum, May 2016.
“Nasher 10: Celebrating a Decade 2005-2015”, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2016.
Sargent, Antwaun. “16-Second Video Artwork Sums Up Police Brutality”, The Creators Project, March 9, 2016.
Heddaya, Mostafa. “Reviews In Brief: Sanford Biggers”, Modern Painters, February 2016.
El Khatib, Khalid. “Artist Sanford Biggers’ Work Needs to Be Talked About”, Paper Magazine, Feburary 25, 2016.
“New York Premiere of L’AMANT ANONYME Set for 59E59 Theaters”, Broadway World, February 18, 2016.
Bourland, Ian. “Sun Rise In Different Dimensions”, Frieze, January-February 2016.
Farago, Jason. “The best American art shows of 2015”, The Guardian, December 16, 2015.
Valentine, Victoria. “The Year in Black Art: January 2015”, Culture Type, December 13, 2015.
“NEA Awards $26 Million in Arts Works Grants”, Artforum, December 9, 2015.
Nelson, Solveig. “The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music 1965 to Now Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago”, Artforum, November 2015.
Waxman, Lori. “’Freedom Principle’ at MCA takes on black art, music”, Chicago Tribune, November 11, 2015.
Terrill, Marshall. “While visiting ASU, Sanford Biggers explains how to embrace unplanned creativity – and unintended reaction”, Arizona State University, November 19, 2015.
Rupert, Sarah Michelle, and Michelle Weinberg, “The Moment. The Backdrop. The Persona.”, Catalogue, Girls’ Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Farago, Jason. “The Freedom Principle review – an astounding fusion of jazz and art,” the guardian, July 17, 2015.
Suede. “Picasso Who? Afropop + Afrpunk Blow Up Black Modern Art,” EBONY, February 5, 2015.
“2015 Joyce Award Recipients Announced,” Artforum, January 27, 2015.
Thorson, Alice. “Kemper’s ‘Piece by Piece’ leads the way in 2015′s visual arts,” Kansas City Star, January 2, 2015.Artsy Editorial. “A Group Show Considers Kafka’s ‘Amerika’ and Otherness in Art,” Artsy, 2014.
Russeth, Andrew. “A Tour of Expo Chicago 2014,” ArtNews, September 2014.
Tschida, Anne. “Miami galleries are jammed with noteworthy exhibitions,” The Miami Herald, June 20, 2014.
Artsy Editorial. “Sacred Geometry: Cultural Semiotics in the work of Sanford Biggers,” Artsy, June 2014.
McDermott, Emily. “Sanford Biggers Talks His Band, Moon Medicin.” Complex, June 2014.
“‘Black Eye’”: Impressive Gathering of Artists Aims to Defy Categorization,” ArtsOberver, May 2014.
Gilsdorf, “Metabolic Bodies”, The Miami Rail, May 2014.
Fullerton, Elizabeth. “Playing a Different Tune,” ArtNews, April 2014.
Artsy Editorial. “Hybrid Bodies and Charged Narratives at David Castillo Gallery,” Artsy, Spring 2014.
Sutton, Benjamin. “Silicon Valley Contemporary Fair Launches With Bitcoin Sales and New Media Art Aplenty.” ArtNet News, April 11, 2014.
Alexander, Andrew. “Sanford Biggers returns to Atlanta this week,” Creative Loafing, March 25, 2014.
Hirsch, Faye. “Sanford Biggers: Floating World,” Art in Print, January 2013.
Hutson, Laura. “Coded Quilt Drawings: Notes From Sanford Biggers’ Art Talk,” Nashville Scene, November 25, 2013.
Rosenberg, Karen. “The Future Is African,” The New York Times, November 8, 2013.
Adler, Tony. “What I saw at Expo Chicago (and suggest you see, too),” Chicago Reader, September 21, 2013.
Lord, Jo. “At VCU, 2 artists interpret story of Harriet Tubman,” Richmond Times Dispatch, July 2013.
Newton, Karen. “Codes and Clouds: Artist Sanford Biggers deciphers a secret language at Anderson Gallery.” Style Weekly. June 11, 2013.
Pollack, Barbara. “The Civil War in Art, Then & Now.” ArtNews. May, 2013.
Perra, Daniele. “Sanford Biggers: Django Unchained in salsa quilt.” Artribune. April 28, 2013.
Huebner, Jeff. “Sanford Biggers manifests a new destiny with Ago.” Chicago Reader. April 26, 2013.
“Creative Commons: David Castillo.” Delta Sky Magazine, March 2013.
Castro, Jan Garden. “Syncretic Improvisations: A Conversation with Sanford Biggers.” Sculpture. October, 2012
Gaskins, Nettrice. Polyculturalist Visions Revisited. Art:21. September 4, 2012
Gaskins, Nettrice. “Sanford Biggers’ Conundrum: The Mothership Lands at Mass MoCA.” Art:21. June 19, 2012
Gaskins, Nettrice. “Sanford Biggers’ Codex Navigates the Past, Present, Future.” Art:21. April 24, 2012.
Gaskins, Nettrice. “Sanford Biggers: Contemporary Mandala and the Hip Hop Ethos.” Art:21. March 23, 2012
Cooke, Erica. “Sanford Biggers’s futuristic vision at Mass MoCA.” The Art Newspaper. February 6, 2012.
Smee, Sebastian. “Music, Memory, Mystery on view.” BostonGlobe.com. Mar 1, 2012.
Pasori, Cedar, Alex Morency and Nick Shonberger. “The 100 Most Influential Artists of the Complex Decade.” Complex.com
Martinez, Alanna. “The Top 20 Shows to See in 2012.” Artinfo. December 30, 2011.
Sutton, Benjamin. “Sanford Biggers Goes Biggers in Brooklyn and Queens.” The L Magazine. November 4, 2011
Richard, Frances. “Sanford Biggers, Brooklyn Museum/SculptureCenter.” Artforum. December, 2011.
Johnson, Ken. “Smile and Metaphor, Crossing Borough Lines.” The New York Times, October 20, 2011
Budick, Ariella. “Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk-An Introspective, Brooklyn Museum, New York”, Financial Times, October 20, 2011.
Adkins, Terry. “Sanford Biggers.” Bomb Magazine, Fall.
McGee, Celia. “First an Outcast, Then an Inspiration.” The New York Times, April 24, 2011.
Cash, Stephanie. “In the Studio: Sanford Biggers.” Art in America, March, 2011.
Sanders, Brandee. “Art Basel Miami: Black Artists Push Creative Boundaries.” The Root, December, 8, 2010
Jacobs, Ferenz. “Blanco es el nuevo negro” Lamono Magazine, November 3, 2010
Lesage, Dieter & Wudtke, Ina. “Black Sound White Cube.” Löcker Verlag, June 11, 2010
Goldberg, RoseLee. “Everywhere and All At Once: An Anthology of Writings on Performa 07.JRP|Ringier, April 24, 2010
Butter, Thomas. “Interview with Sanford Biggers.” Whitehot Magazine, April 2010
Rife, Susan. “Greenfield Prize presented to NY artist.” Herald Tribune, April 16, 2010
Donelan, Charles. “Sanford Biggers’s Moon Medicine at Contemporary Arts Forum.” Santa Barbara Independent, March 18, 2010
Mills, Ted. “Biggers than Most – The ever-expanding world of Sanford Biggers.” Santa Barbara News Press, March 12, 2010
Garcia, Miki. “Sanford Biggers: Moon Medicine.” Catalog by Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, March 3, 2010
Grudman, Uta, Volk, Gregory & Russ, Sabine. “Carnival Within: An Exhibition Made in America.” Verlag fur moderne Kunst Nurnber, February 28, 2010
Row, D.K. “Review” ‘Disquieted’ at the Portland Art Museum.” The Oregonian, February 22, 2010
Rife, Susan, L. “This year’s Greenfield Prize winner melds a variety of talents and thoughts.” Herald Tribune, January 24, 2010
“Best of Manhattan 09: Arts & Entertainment.” New York Press, October 14, 2009
Newhall, Edith. “Galleries: Three artists vie for prize.” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 11, 2009
Miles, David. “The $150,000 Question.” Art Info, October 8, 2009
Green, Kate. “Future Anterior: an index to contemporary art’s imminent history.” Art Papers September/October, 2009
Bloemink, Barbara. “Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor.” The Huffington Post, August 12, 2009
Johnson, Barry. “Sanford Biggers: The Skittery Meaning of Trees.” The Oregonian, June 30, 2009
Bowie, Chas. “Review: Sanford Biggers at the Portland Art Museum.” (June 26)
Blackburn, Mary Walling. “Virtual Sketchbook: Sanford Biggers’s Conundrum.”, April 27, 2009
Jackson, Brian Keith. “Talking About A Revolution.” Giant Magazine, Apri 2009
Schwartz, Madeleine M. “Multifaceted Artist Biggers Dodges Simple Interpretations.” The Harvard Crimson April 10, 2009
Biggers, Sanford. “Artists on Artists: Rashid Johnson by Sanford Biggers.” BOMB Magazine, April 2009
Schambelan, Elizabeth. “Civic Engagement.” Artforum, January 2009
Carlin, TJ. “Sanford Biggers.” Time Out New York (issue 695) January 22, 2009
“Southern Exposure.” The New York Times Magazine December 7, 2008
Klein, Paul. “Art Lifts New Orleans.” The Huffington Post, November 4, 2008
“Halloween Special: New Orleans, Prospect 1.” ArtFagCity.com, October 31, 2008
Yablonsky, Linda. “Blue Note.” Artforum online, November 10, 2008
Cotter, Holland. “Making Secular Art Out of Religious Imagery.” The New York Times, October 29, 2008
Jackson, Sharyn. “The Voting Booth Project.” Village Voice, October 2008
WNYC Culture. “NeoHooDoo, Broadway, the Oxygen Hog, and ‘Mary’.”ART.CULT, October 20, 2008
Duff, Stacey. “A New York Minute.” Time Out Beijing, February 2007
Oliver, Valerie Cassel. “Meditations of a B-Boy Buddhist.” International Review of African American Art (Volume 21, Number 3): 51-54.
Rabinowitz, Cay-Sophie. “Blossom.” Grand Arts Exhibition Catalog, October 2007
Taft, Catherine. “Sanford Biggers.” Modern Painters, February 2007
“Intelligent Design.” New Yorker, April 9, 2007
Artner, Allan. “Art of Peace: 88 Viewpoints on the Dalai Lama.” The Chicago Tribune, November 2, 2006
Kino, Carol. “Young Collector Stefan Levine: Gas Man.” Art Basel Miami Beach, December 2006
Knight, Christopher. “‘Jocko’ Represents a Cultural Battle.” Los Angeles Times, December 1, 2006
Larson, Kay. “Keeping the Faith.” ARTnews (February): 98-100.
Newman, Andrew Adam. “Directions; The Golden Hour.” New York Times (Arts), March 12, 2006
Smith, Roberta. “Chelsea is a Battlefield: Galleries Muster Groups.” New York Times, July 28, 2006
O’Sullivan, Michael. “Richmond artists Rooted in Histories.” The Washington Post, December 1, 2006
Dawson, Jessica. “Street Culture Bursts Into the Gallery.” The Washington Post, July 21, 2005
Bowles, John. “Sanford Biggers at the Contemporary Arts Center.” Art in America, January 2, 2005
Jackson, Brian Keith. “Show and Tell: Sanford Biggers.” New York Magazine, June 2005
Bauer, Marilyn. “Cultural Fusion.” The Cincinnati Enquirer May 2004
Estes, Sarah. “Critics Pick: Both And Not Either Or.” The City Paper, October 27, 2004
Glueck, Grace. “From Four Milleniums of Jewish Cultural Life.” New York Times, June 27, 2003
Genocchio, Benjamin. “The Forgeries Are The Real Thing In This Exhibition.”New York Times, April 13, 2003
Golonu, Berin. “Psychic Windows.” Sculpture (review) January/February, 2003
Greco, Stephen & Zita, Carmen. “State of the Art: In Sight.” Trace (issue #36)
Smith, Roberta. “A Cornucopia of Cultural Exchange, Beginning With A Martial Arts Hero.” New York Times(Arts), November 28, 2003
Dailey, Meghan. “Family – The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art.” ArtForum, October 2002
Donohue, Piper. “Boogie Down” Honey.”, January 2002
Erhardt, Miklos. “Fesusfono es Poteau- Mitan.” Balkon, October 2002
Girst, Thomas. “Ennui im Whitney.” die tageszeitung, March 2002
Gopnik, Blake. “As American as Jumbalaya” Washington Post (Art). March 7, 2002
Griffin, Tim. “Bi American – The Whitney Biennial opens its doors.” Time Out New York, March 14-21, 2002
Grunitzky, Claude. “Meister Aller Klassen.” GQ International, September, 2002.
Jones, Amelia. “The Post Black Bomb.” Tema Celeste, March/April 2002
Knight, Christopher. “Art Review.” Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2002
Matusow, Cathy. “Buddhism and B-Boys?” Houston Press, November 21, 2002
Nickas, Bob. “Multiple Voice.” ArtForum, May, 2002
Patton, Phil. “Artists on the Verge.” Mercury Owner Magazine, Spring 2002
Plagens, Peter. “This Man Will Decide What Art Is.” Newsweek, March 4, 2002
Rauterberg, Von Hanno. “Danke, Herr, fur Video.” Feuilleton (kunst).
Robinson, Knox “The Show.” Fader (Winter): 48.
Stevens, Mark. “Irony Lives.” New York Magazine, March 2002
Teicholz, Nina. “Private View: Lawrence Rinder.” Art & Auction, March 2002
Budick, Ariella. “Post- Black and White.” Newsday, June 2001
Aranda-Alvarado, Rocio. “Culture and Memory.” NKA (Review), Spring/Summer 2001
Cotter, Holland. “A Full Studio Museum Show Starts with 28 Young Artists and a Shoehorn.” New York Times (Review: Arts), May 11, 2001
Croal, Mashaka. “Freestylin’ at the Studio Museum in Harlem by Aida.”Africana.com, June 26, 2001
Dewan, Sheila K. “Twin Peaks Makes A Vertical World Their Own.” New York Times(Metro), February 27, 2001
Erikson, Emily. “Color Coded.” ArtForum (Preview) May, 2001.
Fowler Gabe. “Gang of Four.” New Art Examiner, November/December 2001.
Gioni, Massimiliano. “New York Cut Up.” Flash Art, July-September 2001
Girst, Thomas. “Power Enormous: The Art of Sanford Biggers” NY Arts, April 2001
Girst, Thomas. “Breakdance auf Leinwand.” die tageszeitung (kultur), March, 16
Griffin, Tim. “Race Matters.” Time Out New York (Art),May 24, 2001
Saltz, Jerry. “Post Black.” Village Voice (Art), May 22, 2001
Stevens, Mark. “The Studio Museum in Harlem “Freestyle”: More About Art than About Race.” New York Magazine (Art), May 21, 2001
Viveros- Faune, Christian. “Freestyle.” New York Press (Editorial) (June)
Wilcox, Lauren. “Transformation and Tradition: Interview with Sanford Biggers.” Tout-Fait (Duchamp Studies On-line Journal)
“Making the Case fir the ‘Post Black’ School of Art.” LA Times, September 29, 2001
The New Masters.” Vibe (Gallery), May 2001
“Freestyle” at Studio Museum.” Artnet.com (news), April 13, 2001Berwick, Carly. “Power Spins” ARTnews (On the Edge). November 2000
Cotter Holland. “Picking Out Distinctive Voices in a Pluralistic Chorus.” New York Times (Review: Arts), August 18, 2000
Cotter, Holland. “A Condensed International Melange.” New York Times, (Weekend – Arts & Leisure) May 6, 2000
Jackson, Brian Keith. “Dharma on the Dancefloor.” Paper Magazine (Arts).September 2000
Sirmans Franklin. “Artistically Speaking.” Soul Purpose.com, September 22, 2000
Sirmans, Franklin. “From the Studio: Artists in Residence 2000.” Time Out New York (Arts), August 3-10, 2000
“Hanne Tierney, Marian Griffiths and Five Myles.” NY Arts Magazine, April 2000

 

SELECTED AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

 

2019
Hall of Fame Inductee, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Juror, AXA Caitlin Art Prize, Chicago, IL

 

2018
Art Award Winner, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY

 

2017
Rome Prize in Visual Arts, American Academy in Rome, Italy
Spring Art Auction Honoree, ArtBridge, New York, NY
Art For Life Featured Artist, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, New York, NY

 

2016
Fellow, TED2016, Vancouver, BC
NEA Award, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
Cool Culture UnGala Honoree, Phillips Auction House, New York, NY
Atlantic Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence, New Smyrna Beach, FL

 

2015
Board of Governors, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL
Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany
Guna S. Mundheim Fellow in the Visual Arts, The American Academy, Berlin, Germany
The Joyce Foundation Award, Chicago, IL

2014
Columbia University’s Office of the Provost’s Junior Faculty Grant, New York, NY
New York City’s Art Teachers Association’s Artist-of-the-Year, New York, NY
Georgia Tech Ferst Center of the Arts Africa, Atlanta 2014 STEAM Residency, Atlanta, GA
JWT’s Differenter Committee’s Innovators of Change Award, New York, NY

2013
Verbier 3-D Sculpture Park & Residency, Verbier, Switzerland
Residency at Georgia Institute of Technology for Africa, Atlanta, GA
BET ICON MANN 28 Men of Change Award

 

2010
Greenfield Prize at the Hermitage Artist Retreat

 

2009
Harvard University Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies
Harvard University’s Office of Fine Arts’ Artist in Residence
Creative Time Travel Grant for Global Residency Project

 

2008
Creative Capital Foundation Grant

 

2007
New York Percent for the Arts Commission, New York, NY
Art Matters Grant, New York, NY

 

2005
AIR Laboratory. Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Lambent Fellowship in the Arts TIDES Foundation grant, New York, NY
Fellow in Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Work from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

 

2004
Pennies From Heaven/ New York Community Trust Grant

 

2003
ARCUS Project Residency, Moriya City, Japan

 

2002
Art In General/ Trafo Gallery Eastern European Exchange Residency Budapest, Hungary

 

2001
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant
Socrates Sculpture Park Residency, Long Island City, NY

 

2000
World Views Artist in Residence, World Trade Center, New York, NY
Eyebeam/ New York City Annenberg Challenge for Arts Education, New York, NY
Studio Museum in Harlem Artists-in-Residence, New York, NY
P.S. 1 Studio Residency, New York, NY

 

1999
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago James Nelson Raymond Fellowship
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Graduate Incentive Scholarship

 

1998
Camille Hanks-Cosby Scholarship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

 

1996
Santa Fe Public Art Fund Grant, Los Angeles, CA

 

1990
Central Metals Sculpture Competition, second place, Atlanta, GA

 

SELECTED VISITING ARTIST, CRITIC and LECTURER

 

2020
Co-Chair and Donation, Art Production Fund Gala, Seagram Building, New York, NY
Co-design Set With Tim Brown for Power to the People!, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA

 

2019
Sanford Biggers in Conversation with Helen Molesworth, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
Alchemy: Found Material in Contemporary African-American Art, The New Museum, New York, NY
Performance, Direct Current, The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
Performative Lecture, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
The Arts and Civic Engagement Forum, Aspen Institute, Aspen, CO
Lecture, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Lecture, Brown University, Providence, RI
In Conversation: Yto Barrada and Sanford Biggers, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, NY
Performative Lecture with Moon Medicin, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI

 

2018
Lecture, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

 

2017
Master Class, National YoungArts Foundation, New York, NY
Conversation with Sanford Biggers, Moderated by Franklin Sirmans, Faena Rose, Miami Beach, FL
Brooklyn Talks: Bryan Stevenson with Sanford Biggers and Glenn Ligon, Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY

 

2016
Conversations with Greg Tate & Sanford Biggers, Hammer Museum UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

 

2015
Conversations & Salon Talks, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL
Lecture, ASU Gammage, Tempe, AZ
Lecture, Black Portraiture{s} II Conference; Florence, Italy
Lecture, University at Austin, Austin TX
American Academy in Berlin, Berlin, Germany

 

2014
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Urban Video Project, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
CoHosts, Baltimore School for the Arts, Baltimore, MD
Art in Embassies, Delegation participant, Johannesburg, South Africa
Prompter for LaTableRonde Whitney Biennial  #3: On Art as Apparatus, Critical Practices Inc, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
AFROPUNK panel moderated by Greg Tate, Moogfest, Asheville, NC
Carrie Mae Weems: Live from the Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
In Conversation Sanford Biggers and Saul Williams moderated by Rujeko Hockley presented by Columbia University School of the Arts and The Studio Museum, New York, NY
Afropunk’s The Triptych screening panel, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Advancing STEM Through Culturally Situated Arts Based Learning, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

 

2013
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
EXPO CHICAGO, SAIC sponsored /Dialogues: Sanford Biggers, Elysia Borowy-Reeder and José Lerma in conversation with Richard Holland and Duncan MacKenzie, Chicago, IL
Afropunk’s The Triptych screening panel, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Columbia University Visiting Artist Lecture Series, New York, NY
Sanford Biggers, Everard Findley & Marcus Samuelsson in conversation, moderated by Thelma Golden, Neuehouse, New York, NY
The Verbier 3-D Residency and Sculpture Park, Verbier, Switzerland
Bermuda National Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda
Now Dig This! Symposium, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

 

2012
International Sculpture Center Conference Keynote Speaker, Chicago, IL
Comradely Objects: Art Against Reification Conference Speaker, The New School, New York, NY
James A. Porter Colloquium on African Art, Keynote Speaker, Howard University, Washington DC
AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Awards Ceremony Presenter, Asia Society, New York, NY
Ringling College, Sarasota, FL
The University of the South, Sewanee, TN
Anderson Ranch Summer Workshop Visiting Artist
Art Papers Lecture Series, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

 

2011
Festival of the New Black Imagination with Wangechi Mutu and Greg Tate, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Museum Conversation with Mos Def and Marcus Samuelsson
Food Republic Panel with Marcus Samuelsson, Dylan Ratigan and Eddie Chai, New York, NY
Sotheby’s Institute, New York, NY
Creative Time Global Residency Talk, New York, NY

 

2010
Visiting Faculty Artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
MOMA, Conversations Among Friends: with Lorraine O’Grady & RoseLee Goldberg, New York, NY
Columbia University, Work in Progress: Conversation with Dr. Kellie Jones, New York, NY

 

2009
Revisiting Histories: A conversation between Sanford Biggers, Andrea Geyer and Simon & Simon J. Ortiz, Lambent Foundation, New York, NY, Curated by Niels von Tomme
Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum, Conversation with Dr. Steven Nelson and Helen Molesworth, Cambridge, MA
Harvard University Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Cambridge, MA
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
|Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO
Gelman Lecturer. Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY
Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Pew Fellowships in the Arts Interdisciplinary Awards Panel

 

2008
SkowheganTALKS presents a dialog between artists Sanford Biggers and Paul Pfeiffer
PS1 Contemporary Art Center
Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New York, NY

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

 

J.P. Morgan Corporate Collection
The Studio Museum in Harlem
The Walker Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art
The Jewish Museum, New York
The Princeton University Art Museum
Brooklyn Museum
Portland Art Museum
Bronx Museum
Dayton Art Institute
Everson Museum of Art
Weatherspoon Art Museum
The Bass Art Museum

Sign and Substance
Sanford Biggers: Quadri ed Angeli
Lines of Fracture
In terms of collage
No burden as heavy
Sanford Biggers: Matter
David Castillo Gallery Pop-up
Amerika
Sanford Biggers: 3 Dollars & 6 Dimes
Metabolic Bodies
Dark Flow Lurking