SANFORD BIGGERS
Sanford Biggersâ 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 âvignettesâ 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). Biggersâ 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 Biggersâ 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
2026
Drift, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
2025
A Tesseract, A Talisman, David Castillo, Miami, FL
2022
Patching Voyages, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
Of many waters…, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA,
2021
IntersectionsâSanford 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 Truths, Marianne 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
âAfro Pickâ 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 Cartographerâs 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, DâAmelio 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
2026
See It Now: Contemporary Art from the Ann and Mel Schaffer Collection, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2025
MAMI WATA, Superposition Gallery and Eastville Community Historical Society, Sag Harbor, NY
Half Life, Museum unter Tage, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
True Colors, MAXXI L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy
Collections Highlight- Collection in Focus: Faith Ringgold, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
BUSTED: Contemporary Sculpture busts, Frederik Meijer Garden & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
2024
In Brilliant Light, Wereldmuseum Leiden, Netherlands
Sites of Impermanence, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Century: 100 Years of Black Art at MAM, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
The is a Body: Legacy of the Ancestral Arts in the 21st Century, Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester, NY
By Way of: Material and Motion in the Guggenheim Collection, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C
Line & Thread: Prints and Textiles from the 1600s to Present, New York Public Library, New York, NY
The Shape of Power, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C
Imagining Black Diasporas, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA\
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, NYÂ
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, DronningmĂžlle, 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 PAMMâs 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:Â The Contemporary Art of FlĂąnerie, 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, Childrenâs 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 â 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., Girlsâ 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 â 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. DâAmelio 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
DâAfrique dâAsie, 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
Altoidâs 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 Biggersâ Codeswitch creates new meaning from old quilts”, WFPL, April 2, 2022.
Scott, Chadd âFolk Art, Fine Art and Fabric Come Together in Louisvilleâ, Forbes, March 13, 2022.
Finkel, Jori âMapping a Bold Vision for the California African American Museumâ, New York Times, February 8, 2022.Maneker, Marion “The South is a Place of Transformation”, December 21, 2021.
Bejamin Suttin âMiami Beach residents vote to aquire Farah Al Quasismi works for public art collectionâ, Devember , 2021.
Ashley Ponter âArtists win awards for highlighting life on the border and reclaiming African artâ, December 3, 2021.
Mark Jenkins “At the Phillips Collection, a visual âconversationâ between the art of Europe, Africa and Japan”, November 17, 2021
Gabriella Angeleti. âSanford Biggers and Tanya Aguiñia win $250, 000 Heinz awardâ, November 18, 2021.
Leah Faye Cooper. “Style for the Ages”, Bazaar, November 3, 2021
Whyte, Murray. âMFAâs âFabric of a Nationâ pieces together American history through the quietly radical power of quiltsâ, The Boston Globe, October 21, 2021.
Murphy, Yume. âONE WORK: SANFORD BIGGERSâS â7 HEAVENSââ, Art in America, September 8, 2021.
Will Heinrich. âTeaching a New Inclusiveness at The Schoolâ, New York Times, August 12, 202
Christopher Knight. âReview: Do you see the smile? Why Sanford Biggersâ painting will put one on your faceâ, Los Angeles Times, August 10, 2021.
Carolina A. Miranda. âNewsletter:Â The Virginia Museum of Fine Artâs âDirty Southâ revels in Black Southern cultureâ, 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.
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Cascone, Sarah. Artist Sanford Biggers Explains How Our Misunderstanding of Classical Sculpture Inspired His Rockefeller Center Takeoverâ, ArtNet News, May 7, 2021.
Scott, Chadd. “A Face Not Seen Before: Sanford Biggers âLady Interbellumâ At SCAD Museum Of Art”, Forbes, March 30, 2021.
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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.
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Allen, Lila. “Sanford Biggers Uses Traditional Quilting to Issue a New Message”, Metropolis, October 12, 2020.
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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 ElectionsâSee 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.
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Mitter, Siddhartha. “Cracking Codes With Sanford Biggers”, The New York Times, August 14, 2020.
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Patel, Alpesh Kantilal. âUsing Antique Quilts, Sanford Biggers Creates An Afrofuturist History Of The Underground Railroadâ, Art In America, February 3, 2020.
âPrice Check! Hereâs What Soldâand for How Muchâat Art Basel in Miami Beach 2019â, Artnet News, December 9, 2019.
Ludel, Wallace. âHelen Moesworth to Collaborate With Jack Shainman on Summer Programmingâ, The Art Newspaper, November 14, 2019.
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âGetty Launches âRecording Artists: Radical Womenâ Podcastâ, Artfixdaily, November 12, 2019.
Whyte, Murray. âAt Tufts, Sanford Biggers Takes Aim at Violence Against African-Americansâ, The Boston Globe, November 7, 2019.
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Selvin, Claire. âPerforma Launches Online Platform for Streaming New and Archived Worksâ, Artnews, March 7, 2019.
ââLines of Fractureâ at David Castillo Gallery, Miamiâ, Artnews, February 28, 2019.
âFrom the Archives: Sanford Biggers on âJuggling Cultural Signs,â in 2000â, Artnews, December 21, 2018.
âDavid Castillo Gallery to present works by stellar group of artists at Art Basel Miami Beachâ, Artdaily.org, November 2018.
Jenkins, Dorothy. âArt of Black Miami to celebrate with neighborhood fairs, festivalsâ, Miami Herald, November 28, 2018.
Sheets, Hilarie M. âEmpty Nesters Donsize, but Thereâs Always Room for Artâ, The New York Times, November 27, 2018.
da Fonseca-Wollheim, Corinna. âReview: In âPlace,â a Composer Questions His Comfort, and Powerâ, The New York Times, October 12, 2018.
Cohn, Gabe. âPeggy Cooper Cafritz Leaves Collection to Two Arts Institutionsâ, The New York Times, October 10, 2018.
Abney, Nina Chanel. âPeggy Cooper Cafritz Bequeaths Major Collection to Harlemâs Studio Museumâ, Artforum, October 9, 2018.
Neuendorf, Henri. âHere are the 300 Artists Making Billboards for Every US State as Part of Hank Willis Thomasâs Midterm Election Projectâ, Artnet News, October 9, 2018.
Neuendorf, Henri. âCollector Peggy Cooper Cafritz Bequeaths More Than 600 Works to the Studio Museum and Duke Ellington School of the Artsâ, Artnet News, October 9, 2018.
Anderson, Lindsey. âGet to Know Sculpture Milwaukee artist Sanford Biggersâ, Milwaukee Magazine, August 10, 2018.
Cascone, Sarah. âFrom Nick Cave to Janelle Monae, Kansas Cityâs New Biennial Mingles Art and Music for a Midwestern Extravaganzaâ, Artnet news, August 9, 2018.
âThe Bass Acquires works by Sanford Biggers, Mika Rottenberg, Lawrence Weiner, Among Othersâ, Artforum, July 31, 2018.
Sutton, Benjamin. âBaltimore Museum of Art Acquires 23 Major Works and a Lucian Freud Reaches $29.4M at Sothebyâsâ, Hyperallergic, June 28, 2018.
Kane, Dawn. âWeatherspoon Art Museum acquires significant worksâ, News & Record, June 25, 2018.
Swartz, Anne. âThe Pattern and Decoration Zeitgeistâ, Hyperallergic, June 12, 2018.
Wild, Matt. âAll 21 Sculpture Milwaukee 2018 Sculptures, Rankedâ, Milwaukee Record, June 5, 2018.
âSanford Biggers received a 2018 American Academy of Arts and Letters Awardâ, St. Louis American, June 5, 2018.
Fenske, Sarah. âLargest Public Art Campaign in US History Will Place Billboards in MOâ, Riverfront Times, June 4, 2018.
Schumacher, Louise. âFridayâs the unveiling for Sculpture Milwaukee on Wisconsin Ave.; hereâs a first lookâ, Journal Sentinel, June 1, 2018.
Donelan, Charles. âManjari Sharmaâs âDarshanââ, Santa Barbara Independent, May 30, 2018.
Halio, Grace. â42 Artists Donate Works to Sothebyâs Auction Benefitting the Studio Museum in Harlemâ, Art News, May 3, 2018.
Dafoe, Taylor. âA First Look Inside the New Alabama Museum Boldly Confronting Slavery and Its Brutal Legacyâ, Artnet News, April 25, 2018.
Selvin, Claire. âHereâs the Artist List for Open Spaces Kansas City 2018â, Art News, April 13, 2018.
Miller, James H. âAlabama memorial confronts Americaâs racist historyâ, The Art Newspaper, April 16, 2018.
Valenine, Victoria. âArt & Commerce: Scenes From the Armory Show 2018â, Culture Type, March 16, 2018.
Goldstein, Caroline & Henri Neuendorf. âPrice Check! Hereâs What Soldâand for How Muchâat the 2018 Armory Showâ, Artnet News, March 12, 2018.
âArmory Show Highlights and Lowlights 2018 Round-Upâ, Artlyst, March 11, 2018.
Schultz, Abby. âThe Changing World of Art Financingâ, PENTA, March 8, 2018.
Greenberger, Alex. âDavid Castillo Turns Its Entire Armory Show BoothâEven the FloorâOver to Sanford Biggersâ, Art News, March 7, 2018.
Laster, Paul. âDubbed âUnder-Sungâ by the New Yorker, Sanford Biggers Is on a Rollâ, Garage Magazine, February 1, 2018.
Kiefer, Ross. âMelding Textile and Tradition at the Weatherspoonâ, The Carolinian, January 17, 2018.
Cunningham, Vinson. âThe Playful, Political Art of Sanford Biggersâ, The New Yorker, January 2018.
Valentine, Victoria. âCulture Talk: Arnold Lehman on Curating âAmerican African American,â a Selling Exhibition at Phillips Londonâ, Culture Type, November 1, 2017.
Friedrich, Michael. âAt the Brooklyn Museum, New Research on Lynching in America Dialogues with the Artâ, Hyperallergic, October 1, 2017.
Mitter, Siddhartha. âAt âFictionsâ in Harlem, Young Black Artists Are on Fireâ, The Village Voice, September 13, 2017
Boucher, Brian. ââItâs Hard to Look Backâ: Why MacArthur Genius Bryan Stevenson Is Building Americaâs First Slavery Museumâ, ArtNet News, August 31, 2017.
Olson, Carly. âSanford Biggers Makes Art Out of Antique Quiltsâ, Architectural Digest, August 31, 2017.
Agitprop, T. â5 Artists Respond to: Charlottesvilleâ, The New York Times, August 29, 2017.
Mitter, Siddhartha. âConfronting the Legacy of Racial Terror, at the Brooklyn Museumâ, The Village Voice, August 29, 2017.
Uszerowicz, Monica. âWhen Artists Carry the Burden of Historyâ, Hyperallergic, August 20, 2017.
Luongo, Michael T., âDetroit Museums Examine the Riots That Changed the Cityâ, The New York Times, August 13, 2017.
Goba, Katie. âBrooklyn Museumâs The Legacy of Lynching Exhibitâ, Kings County Politics, July 27, 2017.
Hereford, Sharee. âRussell Simmonsâ Art Life Gala Takes a Political Turn: âThereâs a Lot of BullsâGoing on in the Governmentâ, The Boombox, July 20, 2017.
Barylski, Nicole. ââArt For Lifeâ Raises Over $1.1 Million For Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundationâ, Hamptons.com, July 2017.
âArt For Life 2017â, Hamptons Magazine, July 17, 2017.
âChuck D, Bozoma Saint John, Stephen Hill Honored at Russell Simmonsâ Art For Life Benefit in the Hamptonsâ, Human Nature Magazine, July 17, 2017.
Goldchain, Michelle. âHawkins Ferry House to host contemporary art gallery for MOCADâ, Curbed Detroit, July 14, 2017.
âWhatâs Going Onâ, Our Time Press, July 13, 2017.
Holliday Smith, Rachel. âExhibit on History of Lynchings in America Coming to Brooklyn Museumâ, DNA Info, July 13, 2017.
Smith, Roberta. âAn Exhibition Worth Thousands of Wordsâ, The New York Times, July 6, 2017.
Smith, Zadie. âWho owns black pain? Getting In and Outâ, Harperâs Magazine (cover), July 2017.
Jones, Kellie. âSouth of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970sâ, Duke University Press, June 2017.
Swanson, Carl. âHow to Tell If Your Child Is a Future Art Starâ, Vulture Magazine, April 27, 2017.
Greenberger, Alex. âRome Prize Names 2017-18 Winners, Including Sanford Biggers and Rochelle Feinsteinâ, ArtNews, April 24, 2017.
âSanford Biggers at MOCADâ, Contemporary Art Daily, January 1, 2017.
Dafoe, Taylor. âFairly Curatedâ, Art + Auction, December 2016.
Meixner, Christiane. âArt Basel Miami Beachâ, Messen, December 2016.
Hudson, Tom. âThe Sunshine Economy: Art and the Business at Art Baselâ, National Public Radio, December 2016.
Jackie Gutierrez-Jones. âThe 15 must-see galleries at Art Basel Miami 2016â, Time Out Magazine, December 2016.
Rodriguez, Rene. âArt Basel 2016 opens to smaller but enthusiastic crowdsâ, Miami Herald, November 2016.
Jacobs, Melissa. âArtâs Silver Liningâ, Luxe Magazine, November/December 2016.
Robinson, Kenya. âKenya (Robinson) on the Fate of Excellenceâ, Blouin Art Info, October 3, 2016.
Quiles, Daniel. âSanford Biggers: Subjective Cosmologyâ, Artforum, September 2016.
Stryker, Mark. âSanford Biggers at MOCAD: Meditations on race, identity, artâ, Detroit Free Press, September 5, 2016.
Fortier, Christopher. âN.Y. artist will create exhibit made of sand in New Britainâ, New Britain Herald, September 9, 2016.
Weiss, Haley. âArtists at Work: Sanford Biggersâ, Interview Magazine, August 16, 2016.
Sargent, Antwaun. â[Exclusive] Fat Albert: A Modern Trojan Horse?â, The Creators Project, August 16, 2016.
Noor, Tausif. âBattle Hymn of the Republic: The Measure of Kehinde Wiley in the American Southâ, Momus, July 13, 2016.
Ten Have, Mieke. âRewriting History: With his powerful visual language, artist Sanford Biggers takes on racial injustice through his socially charged worksâ, Culture Magazine, May 2016.
DeLand, Lauren. âSanford Biggersâ, Art in America, May 25, 2016.
Havens, Sara. âFat Albertâ-inspired controversial artwork lands at the Cressman Center on Wednesdayâ, Louisville Insider, May 2, 2016.
Kramer, Elizabeth. âMonumental art â in the image of âFat Albertââ, Courier-Journal, May 18, 2016.
Schmidlin, Charlie. âBody Paintings and Activist Art In the Arizona Desertâ, The Creators Project, May 18, 2016.
Quiles, Daniel. âChicago Reviews: Sanford Biggersâ, Artforum, May 2016.
âNasher 10: Celebrating a Decade 2005-2015â, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 2016.
Sargent, Antwaun. â16-Second Video Artwork Sums Up Police Brutalityâ, The Creators Project, March 9, 2016.
Heddaya, Mostafa. âReviews In Brief: Sanford Biggersâ, Modern Painters, February 2016.
El Khatib, Khalid. âArtist Sanford Biggersâ Work Needs to Be Talked Aboutâ, Paper Magazine, Feburary 25, 2016.
âNew York Premiere of LâAMANT ANONYME Set for 59E59 Theatersâ, Broadway World, February 18, 2016.
Bourland, Ian. âSun Rise In Different Dimensionsâ, Frieze, January-February 2016.
Farago, Jason. âThe best American art shows of 2015â, The Guardian, December 16, 2015.
Valentine, Victoria. âThe Year in Black Art: January 2015â, Culture Type, December 13, 2015.
âNEA Awards $26 Million in Arts Works Grantsâ, Artforum, December 9, 2015.
Nelson, Solveig. âThe Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music 1965 to Now Museum of Contemporary Art Chicagoâ, Artforum, November 2015.
Waxman, Lori. ââFreedom Principleâ at MCA takes on black art, musicâ, Chicago Tribune, November 11, 2015.
Terrill, Marshall. âWhile visiting ASU, Sanford Biggers explains how to embrace unplanned creativity â and unintended reactionâ, Arizona State University, November 19, 2015.
Rupert, Sarah Michelle, and Michelle Weinberg, âThe Moment. The Backdrop. The Persona.â, Catalogue, Girlsâ Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Farago, Jason. âThe Freedom Principle review â an astounding fusion of jazz and art,â the guardian, July 17, 2015.
Suede. âPicasso Who? Afropop + Afrpunk Blow Up Black Modern Art,â EBONY, February 5, 2015.
â2015 Joyce Award Recipients Announced,â Artforum, January 27, 2015.
Thorson, Alice. âKemperâs âPiece by Pieceâ leads the way in 2015âČs visual arts,â Kansas City Star, January 2, 2015.Artsy Editorial. âA Group Show Considers Kafkaâs âAmerikaâ and Otherness in Art,â Artsy, 2014.
Russeth, Andrew. âA Tour of Expo Chicago 2014,â ArtNews, September 2014.
Tschida, Anne. âMiami galleries are jammed with noteworthy exhibitions,â The Miami Herald, June 20, 2014.
Artsy Editorial. âSacred Geometry: Cultural Semiotics in the work of Sanford Biggers,â Artsy, June 2014.
McDermott, Emily. âSanford Biggers Talks His Band, Moon Medicin.â Complex, June 2014.
ââBlack Eyeââ: Impressive Gathering of Artists Aims to Defy Categorization,â ArtsOberver, May 2014.
Gilsdorf, âMetabolic Bodiesâ, The Miami Rail, May 2014.
Fullerton, Elizabeth. âPlaying a Different Tune,â ArtNews, April 2014.
Artsy Editorial. âHybrid Bodies and Charged Narratives at David Castillo Gallery,â Artsy, Spring 2014.
Sutton, Benjamin. âSilicon Valley Contemporary Fair Launches With Bitcoin Sales and New Media Art Aplenty.â ArtNet News, April 11, 2014.
Alexander, Andrew. âSanford Biggers returns to Atlanta this week,â Creative Loafing, March 25, 2014.
Hirsch, Faye. âSanford Biggers: Floating World,â Art in Print, January 2013.
Hutson, Laura. âCoded Quilt Drawings: Notes From Sanford Biggersâ Art Talk,â Nashville Scene, November 25, 2013.
Rosenberg, Karen. âThe Future Is African,â The New York Times, November 8, 2013.
Adler, Tony. âWhat I saw at Expo Chicago (and suggest you see, too),â Chicago Reader, September 21, 2013.
Lord, Jo. âAt VCU, 2 artists interpret story of Harriet Tubman,â Richmond Times Dispatch, July 2013.
Newton, Karen. âCodes and Clouds: Artist Sanford Biggers deciphers a secret language at Anderson Gallery.â Style Weekly. June 11, 2013.
Pollack, Barbara. âThe Civil War in Art, Then & Now.â ArtNews. May, 2013.
Perra, Daniele. âSanford Biggers: Django Unchained in salsa quilt.â Artribune. April 28, 2013.
Huebner, Jeff. âSanford Biggers manifests a new destiny with Ago.â Chicago Reader. April 26, 2013.
âCreative Commons: David Castillo.â Delta Sky Magazine, March 2013.
Castro, Jan Garden. âSyncretic Improvisations: A Conversation with Sanford Biggers.â Sculpture. October, 2012
Gaskins, Nettrice. Polyculturalist Visions Revisited. Art:21. September 4, 2012
Gaskins, Nettrice. âSanford Biggersâ Conundrum: The Mothership Lands at Mass MoCA.â Art:21. June 19, 2012
Gaskins, Nettrice. âSanford Biggersâ Codex Navigates the Past, Present, Future.â Art:21. April 24, 2012.
Gaskins, Nettrice. âSanford Biggers: Contemporary Mandala and the Hip Hop Ethos.â Art:21. March 23, 2012
Cooke, Erica. âSanford Biggersâs futuristic vision at Mass MoCA.â The Art Newspaper. February 6, 2012.
Smee, Sebastian. âMusic, Memory, Mystery on view.â BostonGlobe.com. Mar 1, 2012.
Pasori, Cedar, Alex Morency and Nick Shonberger. âThe 100 Most Influential Artists of the Complex Decade.â Complex.com
Martinez, Alanna. âThe Top 20 Shows to See in 2012.â Artinfo. December 30, 2011.
Sutton, Benjamin. âSanford Biggers Goes Biggers in Brooklyn and Queens.â The L Magazine. November 4, 2011
Richard, Frances. âSanford Biggers, Brooklyn Museum/SculptureCenter.â Artforum. December, 2011.
Johnson, Ken. âSmile and Metaphor, Crossing Borough Lines.â The New York Times, October 20, 2011
Budick, Ariella. âSanford Biggers: Sweet Funk-An Introspective, Brooklyn Museum, New Yorkâ, Financial Times, October 20, 2011.
Adkins, Terry. âSanford Biggers.â Bomb Magazine, Fall.
McGee, Celia. âFirst an Outcast, Then an Inspiration.â The New York Times, April 24, 2011.
Cash, Stephanie. âIn the Studio: Sanford Biggers.â Art in America, March, 2011.
Sanders, Brandee. âArt Basel Miami: Black Artists Push Creative Boundaries.â The Root, December, 8, 2010
Jacobs, Ferenz. âBlanco es el nuevo negroâ Lamono Magazine, November 3, 2010
Lesage, Dieter & Wudtke, Ina. âBlack Sound White Cube.â Löcker Verlag, June 11, 2010
Goldberg, RoseLee. âEverywhere and All At Once: An Anthology of Writings on Performa 07.JRP|Ringier, April 24, 2010
Butter, Thomas. âInterview with Sanford Biggers.â Whitehot Magazine, April 2010
Rife, Susan. âGreenfield Prize presented to NY artist.â Herald Tribune, April 16, 2010
Donelan, Charles. âSanford Biggersâs Moon Medicine at Contemporary Arts Forum.â Santa Barbara Independent, March 18, 2010
Mills, Ted. âBiggers than Most â The ever-expanding world of Sanford Biggers.â Santa Barbara News Press, March 12, 2010
Garcia, Miki. âSanford Biggers: Moon Medicine.â Catalog by Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, March 3, 2010
Grudman, Uta, Volk, Gregory & Russ, Sabine. âCarnival Within: An Exhibition Made in America.â Verlag fur moderne Kunst Nurnber, February 28, 2010
Row, D.K. âReviewâ âDisquietedâ at the Portland Art Museum.â The Oregonian, February 22, 2010
Rife, Susan, L. âThis yearâs Greenfield Prize winner melds a variety of talents and thoughts.â Herald Tribune, January 24, 2010
âBest of Manhattan 09: Arts & Entertainment.â New York Press, October 14, 2009
Newhall, Edith. âGalleries: Three artists vie for prize.â Philadelphia Inquirer, October 11, 2009
Miles, David. âThe $150,000 Question.â Art Info, October 8, 2009
Green, Kate. âFuture Anterior: an index to contemporary artâs imminent history.â Art Papers September/October, 2009
Bloemink, Barbara. âDress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor.â The Huffington Post, August 12, 2009
Johnson, Barry. âSanford Biggers: The Skittery Meaning of Trees.â The Oregonian, June 30, 2009
Bowie, Chas. âReview: Sanford Biggers at the Portland Art Museum.â (June 26)
Blackburn, Mary Walling. âVirtual Sketchbook: Sanford Biggersâs Conundrum.â, April 27, 2009
Jackson, Brian Keith. âTalking About A Revolution.â Giant Magazine, Apri 2009
Schwartz, Madeleine M. âMultifaceted Artist Biggers Dodges Simple Interpretations.â The Harvard Crimson April 10, 2009
Biggers, Sanford. âArtists on Artists: Rashid Johnson by Sanford Biggers.â BOMB Magazine, April 2009
Schambelan, Elizabeth. âCivic Engagement.â Artforum, January 2009
Carlin, TJ. âSanford Biggers.â Time Out New York (issue 695) January 22, 2009
âSouthern Exposure.â The New York Times Magazine December 7, 2008
Klein, Paul. âArt Lifts New Orleans.â The Huffington Post, November 4, 2008
âHalloween Special: New Orleans, Prospect 1.â ArtFagCity.com, October 31, 2008
Yablonsky, Linda. âBlue Note.â Artforum online, November 10, 2008
Cotter, Holland. âMaking Secular Art Out of Religious Imagery.â The New York Times, October 29, 2008
Jackson, Sharyn. âThe Voting Booth Project.â Village Voice, October 2008
WNYC Culture. âNeoHooDoo, Broadway, the Oxygen Hog, and âMaryâ.âART.CULT, October 20, 2008
Duff, Stacey. âA New York Minute.â Time Out Beijing, February 2007
Oliver, Valerie Cassel. âMeditations of a B-Boy Buddhist.â International Review of African American Art (Volume 21, Number 3): 51-54.
Rabinowitz, Cay-Sophie. âBlossom.â Grand Arts Exhibition Catalog, October 2007
Taft, Catherine. âSanford Biggers.â Modern Painters, February 2007
âIntelligent Design.â New Yorker, April 9, 2007
Artner, Allan. âArt of Peace: 88 Viewpoints on the Dalai Lama.â The Chicago Tribune, November 2, 2006
Kino, Carol. âYoung Collector Stefan Levine: Gas Man.â Art Basel Miami Beach, December 2006
Knight, Christopher. ââJockoâ Represents a Cultural Battle.â Los Angeles Times, December 1, 2006
Larson, Kay. âKeeping the Faith.â ARTnews (February): 98-100.
Newman, Andrew Adam. âDirections; The Golden Hour.â New York Times (Arts), March 12, 2006
Smith, Roberta. âChelsea is a Battlefield: Galleries Muster Groups.â New York Times, July 28, 2006
OâSullivan, Michael. âRichmond artists Rooted in Histories.â The Washington Post, December 1, 2006
Dawson, Jessica. âStreet Culture Bursts Into the Gallery.â The Washington Post, July 21, 2005
Bowles, John. âSanford Biggers at the Contemporary Arts Center.â Art in America, January 2, 2005
Jackson, Brian Keith. âShow and Tell: Sanford Biggers.â New York Magazine, June 2005
Bauer, Marilyn. âCultural Fusion.â The Cincinnati Enquirer May 2004
Estes, Sarah. âCritics Pick: Both And Not Either Or.â The City Paper, October 27, 2004
Glueck, Grace. âFrom Four Milleniums of Jewish Cultural Life.â New York Times, June 27, 2003
Genocchio, Benjamin. âThe Forgeries Are The Real Thing In This Exhibition.âNew York Times, April 13, 2003
Golonu, Berin. âPsychic Windows.â Sculpture (review) January/February, 2003
Greco, Stephen & Zita, Carmen. âState of the Art: In Sight.â Trace (issue #36)
Smith, Roberta. âA Cornucopia of Cultural Exchange, Beginning With A Martial Arts Hero.â New York Times(Arts), November 28, 2003
Dailey, Meghan. âFamily â The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art.â ArtForum, October 2002
Donohue, Piper. âBoogie Downâ Honey.â, January 2002
Erhardt, Miklos. âFesusfono es Poteau- Mitan.â Balkon, October 2002
Girst, Thomas. âEnnui im Whitney.â die tageszeitung, March 2002
Gopnik, Blake. âAs American as Jumbalayaâ Washington Post (Art). March 7, 2002
Griffin, Tim. âBi American â The Whitney Biennial opens its doors.â Time Out New York, March 14-21, 2002
Grunitzky, Claude. âMeister Aller Klassen.â GQ International, September, 2002.
Jones, Amelia. âThe Post Black Bomb.â Tema Celeste, March/April 2002
Knight, Christopher. âArt Review.â Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2002
Matusow, Cathy. âBuddhism and B-Boys?â Houston Press, November 21, 2002
Nickas, Bob. âMultiple Voice.â ArtForum, May, 2002
Patton, Phil. âArtists on the Verge.â Mercury Owner Magazine, Spring 2002
Plagens, Peter. âThis Man Will Decide What Art Is.â Newsweek, March 4, 2002
Rauterberg, Von Hanno. âDanke, Herr, fur Video.â Feuilleton (kunst).
Robinson, Knox âThe Show.â Fader (Winter): 48.
Stevens, Mark. âIrony Lives.â New York Magazine, March 2002
Teicholz, Nina. âPrivate View: Lawrence Rinder.â Art & Auction, March 2002
Budick, Ariella. âPost- Black and White.â Newsday, June 2001
Aranda-Alvarado, Rocio. âCulture and Memory.â NKA (Review), Spring/Summer 2001
Cotter, Holland. âA Full Studio Museum Show Starts with 28 Young Artists and a Shoehorn.â New York Times (Review: Arts), May 11, 2001
Croal, Mashaka. âFreestylinâ at the Studio Museum in Harlem by Aida.âAfricana.com, June 26, 2001
Dewan, Sheila K. âTwin Peaks Makes A Vertical World Their Own.â New York Times(Metro), February 27, 2001
Erikson, Emily. âColor Coded.â ArtForum (Preview) May, 2001.
Fowler Gabe. âGang of Four.â New Art Examiner, November/December 2001.
Gioni, Massimiliano. âNew York Cut Up.â Flash Art, July-September 2001
Girst, Thomas. âPower Enormous: The Art of Sanford Biggersâ NY Arts, April 2001
Girst, Thomas. âBreakdance auf Leinwand.â die tageszeitung (kultur), March, 16
Griffin, Tim. âRace Matters.â Time Out New York (Art),May 24, 2001
Saltz, Jerry. âPost Black.â Village Voice (Art), May 22, 2001
Stevens, Mark. âThe Studio Museum in Harlem âFreestyleâ: More About Art than About Race.â New York Magazine (Art), May 21, 2001
Viveros- Faune, Christian. âFreestyle.â New York Press (Editorial) (June)
Wilcox, Lauren. âTransformation and Tradition: Interview with Sanford Biggers.â Tout-Fait (Duchamp Studies On-line Journal)
âMaking the Case fir the âPost Blackâ School of Art.â LA Times, September 29, 2001
The New Masters.â Vibe (Gallery), May 2001
âFreestyleâ at Studio Museum.â Artnet.com (news), April 13, 2001Berwick, Carly. âPower Spinsâ ARTnews (On the Edge). November 2000
Cotter Holland. âPicking Out Distinctive Voices in a Pluralistic Chorus.â New York Times (Review: Arts), August 18, 2000
Cotter, Holland. âA Condensed International Melange.â New York Times, (Weekend â Arts & Leisure) May 6, 2000
Jackson, Brian Keith. âDharma on the Dancefloor.â Paper Magazine (Arts).September 2000
Sirmans Franklin. âArtistically Speaking.â Soul Purpose.com, September 22, 2000
Sirmans, Franklin. âFrom the Studio: Artists in Residence 2000.â Time Out New York (Arts), August 3-10, 2000
âHanne Tierney, Marian Griffiths and Five Myles.â 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 Universityâs Office of the Provostâs Junior Faculty Grant, New York, NY
New York Cityâs Art Teachers Associationâs Artist-of-the-Year, New York, NY
Georgia Tech Ferst Center of the Arts Africa, Atlanta 2014 STEAM Residency, Atlanta, GA
JWTâs Differenter Committeeâs 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 Universityâs Office of Fine Artsâ 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
Afropunkâs 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
Afropunkâs 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
Sothebyâs 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 OâGrady & 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



























































