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Sanford Biggers

January 01, 1970

Sanford Biggers is a Harlem-based interdisciplinary artist who works in film/video, installation, sculpture, music, and performance.[1] An L.A. native, he has lived and worked in New York City since 1999.[2]

Sanford Biggers
Born
United States
NationalityAmerican
Known forFilm, video, sculpture, music

Life and education edit

Biggers was born in Los Angeles, California.[3] He is the son of a neurosurgeon, his father, and of a teacher, his mother.[4] He received a BA from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1998.[3] Biggers says that due to a lack of art major classes at Morehouse, he was required to take the majority of his classes at the all-women Spelman College.[5]

Work edit

Biggers first received critical attention when his collaborative work with David Ellis, Mandala of the B-Bodhisattva II, was included in the exhibition "Freestyle", curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2001.[6][7][8] Since, his works have been presented internationally including the Tate Modern in London, the Renaissance Society in Chicago,[9] Prospect 1 in New Orleans and the Whitney Biennial, the Kitchen and Performa 07 (curated by Roselee Goldberg) in New York.[1][8][10] Biggers's art frequently references African-American ethnography, hip hop music, Buddhism, African spirituality, Indo-European Vodoun, jazz, Afrofuturism, urban culture and icons from Americana.[11][12][13][14] He has said that he places "no hierarchy on chronology, references or media"[15] and his work has been characterized by meditation and improvisation.[14] He says his themes are "meant to broaden and complicate our read on American history." He also uses syncretism to highlight the interconnectedness of seemly disparate cultural practices.[11][12] In order to make the viewer an active element, Biggers often turns his sculptures into performances.[15] Having spent most of his life playing piano, this performative element frequently takes the form of music.[13] He has collaborated on music projects with Saul Williams a.k.a. Niggy Tardust, Esthero, Martin Luther McCoy, Imani Uzuri, Rich Medina,[15] and Jahi Sundance.[13]

In 2014, Biggers departed from his typical medium by painting on quilts that were given to him by the descendants of slave owners.[16]

Biggers is Affiliate Faculty at the Virginia Commonwealth University Sculpture and Expanded Media program, and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University's VES Department in 2009.[17][18] He was previously an assistant professor at Columbia University's Visual Arts program.[19]

Recognition edit

In 2019, Biggers was inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame.[20] In 2010, Biggers was awarded the Greenfield Prize at the Hermitage Artist Retreat, a two-year residency and commission of new work.[21] The commission formed the centerpiece of Sanford Biggers: Codex, a 2012 solo exhibition at the Ringling Museum[22] curated by Matthew McLendon.

In 2009 he received the William H. Johnson Prize[23] and was one of the three finalists for the inaugural Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts, the largest juried prize in the world to go to an individual visual artist. Biggers in 2008 received the Creative Capital Award in the discipline of Visual Arts.[24] Biggers was an Eyebeam artist-in-residence in 2000.[25][26]

In 2018 Biggers was interviewed by Vinson Cunningham, a writer for the New Yorker magazine, about his impact on contemporary political art and his role in the Black Lives Matter movement.[27] Also in 2018 Biggers was given an art award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[28]

In 2021, Biggers received the 26th Annual Heinz Award for the Arts.[29]

Exhibitions edit

Source unless otherwise noted:[30]

Solo edit

"Sanford Biggers" - Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. September 7 - December 30, 2018

  • "Selah" — Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York. September 7 - October 21, 2017
  • "The Pasts They Brought with Them" — Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. February 11 - April 2, 2016
  • "Shuffle, Shake - Everson Museum" — Urban Video Project (UVP) and Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York. November 6 - December 27, 2014
  • "3 Dollars and Six Dimes" — David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Florida. May 15 - July 5, 2014
  • "Vex" — Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado. June 27–20, 2014
  • "Sugar, Pork, Bourbon" — Massimo De Carlo Gallery, Milan, Italy. April 5 - May 18, 2013
  • "Dark Star" — Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, New York. July 6–22, 2013
  • "Ago" — Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. April 13 - June, 2013
  • "The Cartographers Conundrum" — Mass MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts. October 2012
  • "Codex" — John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida. March 30 - October 14, 2012
  • "Sweet Funk – An Introspective" — The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York. September 23, 2011 - January 8, 2012
  • "Cosmic Voodoo Circus" — SculptureCenter, Long Island City, Queens, New York. September 10 - November 28, 2011
  • "Moon Medicine" — Museum of Contemporary Arts, Santa Barbara, California. 2010
  • "Blossom" — Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri September 7 – October 20, 2007[31][32]

Group edit

Collections edit

Biggers' work is held in the following permanent collections:

References edit

  1. ^ a b Modern Exhibitions July 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Schachter Rove, Kenny. . rovetv.net. Archived from the original on 2011-01-02. Retrieved 2010-07-12.
  3. ^ a b Cunningham, Vinson (8 January 2018). "The Playful, Political Art of Sanford Biggers" – via www.newyorker.com.
  4. ^ "The Playful, Political Art of Sanford Biggers". newyorker.com. 8 January 2018. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  5. ^ Biggers, Sanford; Keith, Amy Elisa (2014-02-20). "On the Record With ... Sanford Biggers". BET.com. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
  6. ^ Lesage, Dieter & Wudtke, Ina. "Black Sound White Cube." Löcker Verlag (June 11, 2010).
  7. ^ Bleckner, Ross. "BOMB Magazine: Rashid Johnson by Sanford Biggers". Bombsite.com. Retrieved 2010-07-15.
  8. ^ a b Yablonsky, Linda. . ARTnews. Archived from the original on 2010-10-25. Retrieved 2010-07-15.
  9. ^ "Sanford Biggers at the Renaissance Society". Archived from the original on 2012-09-08.
  10. ^ "/ archive". Artforum.com. Retrieved 2010-07-15.
  11. ^ a b . Bampfa.berkeley.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-06-11. Retrieved 2010-07-15.
  12. ^ a b Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. "• Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum || EXHIBITIONS •". Sbcaf.org. Retrieved 2010-07-15.
  13. ^ a b c "WM | whitehot magazine of contemporary art | April 2010, Interview with Sanford Biggers". Retrieved 2010-07-15.
  14. ^ a b . Vcu.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-07-07. Retrieved 2010-07-15.
  15. ^ a b c "Sanford Biggers - Time Out New York". Retrieved 2010-07-15.
  16. ^ Gilmore, Georgette (2014-11-14). "MAM Art Talks Thursday : Sanford Biggers - Baristanet". Baristanet. Retrieved 2015-11-11.
  17. ^ . Ofa.fas.harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-06-27. Retrieved 2010-07-15.
  18. ^ . Vcu.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-05-28. Retrieved 2010-07-15.
  19. ^ . Pp.cc.columbia.edu. Archived from the original on January 7, 2009. Retrieved 2010-07-15.
  20. ^ "NYFA 2019 Hall of Fame Event". 29 January 2019. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  21. ^ "Greenfield Winners". www.greenfieldprize.org. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  22. ^ "Sanford Biggers: Codex". www.ringling.org. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  23. ^ "Sanford Biggers Wins 2009 William H. Johnson Prize". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  24. ^ http://creative-capital.org/projects/view/23 [dead link]
  25. ^ "Sanford Biggers | eyebeam.org". eyebeam.org. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
  26. ^ "iniva: Sanford Biggers". www.iniva.org. Retrieved 2016-02-01.
  27. ^ Cunningham, Vinson (2018-01-08). "The Playful, Political Art of Sanford Biggers:An under-sung artist upends received ideas about race and history". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
  28. ^ "2018 Ceremonial Exhibition: Work by New Members and Recipients of Awards – American Academy of Arts and Letters". artsandletters.org. Retrieved 2018-05-29.
  29. ^ "The Heinz Awards :: Sanford Biggers". www.heinzawards.net. Retrieved 2021-11-18.
  30. ^ "Exhibitions". Sanford Biggers official website. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
  31. ^ "Blossom" by Sanford Biggers, 2007
  32. ^ Brooklyn Museum
  33. ^ "2018 Ceremonial Exhibition: Work by New Members and Recipients of Awards – American Academy of Arts and Letters". artsandletters.org. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  34. ^ "Sanford Biggers". www.studiomuseum.org. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  35. ^ "Sanford Biggers". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  36. ^ "Sanford Biggers". www.moma.org. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  37. ^ "Sanford Biggers". www.whitney.org. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  38. ^ "Sanford Biggers". www.mcachicago.org. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  39. ^ "Borne by the River". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  40. ^ "Semaphore". www.collections.artsmia.org. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  41. ^ "Sanford Biggers". www.walkerart.org. Retrieved 2023-02-24.
  42. ^ "SANFORD BIGGERS". www.phillipscollection.org. Retrieved 2023-02-24.

External links edit

  • Sanford Biggers at Marianne Boesky Gallery
  • Sanford Biggers and Jennifer Zackin: a small world... A 2012 exhibition at The Jewish Museum, NY.
  • Show and Tell: Sanford Biggers, NY Mag
  • ‘Stranger Fruit,’ indeed, Harvard Gazette
  • Sanford Biggers’s Moon Medicine at Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara Independent
  • Review: Sanford Biggers at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon Live
  • This year's Greenfield Prize winner melds a variety of talents and thoughts, Herald Tribune
  • The deeply political, bold and rich work of Harlem's Sanford Biggers, ALL ARTS
  • Sanford Biggers Opens Multimedia Installation at Rockefeller Center

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Sanford Biggers is a Harlem based interdisciplinary artist who works in film video installation sculpture music and performance 1 An L A native he has lived and worked in New York City since 1999 2 Sanford BiggersBornUnited StatesNationalityAmericanKnown forFilm video sculpture music Contents 1 Life and education 2 Work 3 Recognition 4 Exhibitions 4 1 Solo 4 2 Group 5 Collections 6 References 7 External linksLife and education editBiggers was born in Los Angeles California 3 He is the son of a neurosurgeon his father and of a teacher his mother 4 He received a BA from Morehouse College in Atlanta Georgia an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Illinois and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1998 3 Biggers says that due to a lack of art major classes at Morehouse he was required to take the majority of his classes at the all women Spelman College 5 Work editBiggers first received critical attention when his collaborative work with David Ellis Mandala of the B Bodhisattva II was included in the exhibition Freestyle curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2001 6 7 8 Since his works have been presented internationally including the Tate Modern in London the Renaissance Society in Chicago 9 Prospect 1 in New Orleans and the Whitney Biennial the Kitchen and Performa 07 curated by Roselee Goldberg in New York 1 8 10 Biggers s art frequently references African American ethnography hip hop music Buddhism African spirituality Indo European Vodoun jazz Afrofuturism urban culture and icons from Americana 11 12 13 14 He has said that he places no hierarchy on chronology references or media 15 and his work has been characterized by meditation and improvisation 14 He says his themes are meant to broaden and complicate our read on American history He also uses syncretism to highlight the interconnectedness of seemly disparate cultural practices 11 12 In order to make the viewer an active element Biggers often turns his sculptures into performances 15 Having spent most of his life playing piano this performative element frequently takes the form of music 13 He has collaborated on music projects with Saul Williams a k a Niggy Tardust Esthero Martin Luther McCoy Imani Uzuri Rich Medina 15 and Jahi Sundance 13 In 2014 Biggers departed from his typical medium by painting on quilts that were given to him by the descendants of slave owners 16 Biggers is Affiliate Faculty at the Virginia Commonwealth University Sculpture and Expanded Media program and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University s VES Department in 2009 17 18 He was previously an assistant professor at Columbia University s Visual Arts program 19 Recognition editIn 2019 Biggers was inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame 20 In 2010 Biggers was awarded the Greenfield Prize at the Hermitage Artist Retreat a two year residency and commission of new work 21 The commission formed the centerpiece of Sanford Biggers Codex a 2012 solo exhibition at the Ringling Museum 22 curated by Matthew McLendon In 2009 he received the William H Johnson Prize 23 and was one of the three finalists for the inaugural Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts the largest juried prize in the world to go to an individual visual artist Biggers in 2008 received the Creative Capital Award in the discipline of Visual Arts 24 Biggers was an Eyebeam artist in residence in 2000 25 26 In 2018 Biggers was interviewed by Vinson Cunningham a writer for the New Yorker magazine about his impact on contemporary political art and his role in the Black Lives Matter movement 27 Also in 2018 Biggers was given an art award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters 28 In 2021 Biggers received the 26th Annual Heinz Award for the Arts 29 Exhibitions editSource unless otherwise noted 30 Solo edit Sanford Biggers Contemporary Art Museum St Louis St Louis Missouri September 7 December 30 2018 Selah Marianne Boesky Gallery New York New York September 7 October 21 2017 The Pasts They Brought with Them Monique Meloche Gallery Chicago Illinois February 11 April 2 2016 Shuffle Shake Everson Museum Urban Video Project UVP and Everson Museum of Art Syracuse New York November 6 December 27 2014 3 Dollars and Six Dimes David Castillo Gallery Miami Florida May 15 July 5 2014 Vex Baldwin Gallery Aspen Colorado June 27 20 2014 Sugar Pork Bourbon Massimo De Carlo Gallery Milan Italy April 5 May 18 2013 Dark Star Eric Firestone Gallery East Hampton New York July 6 22 2013 Ago Monique Meloche Gallery Chicago Illinois April 13 June 2013 The Cartographers Conundrum Mass MoCA North Adams Massachusetts October 2012 Codex John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota Florida March 30 October 14 2012 Sweet Funk An Introspective The Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn New York September 23 2011 January 8 2012 Cosmic Voodoo Circus SculptureCenter Long Island City Queens New York September 10 November 28 2011 Moon Medicine Museum of Contemporary Arts Santa Barbara California 2010 Blossom Grand Arts Kansas City Missouri September 7 October 20 2007 31 32 Group edit Matter David Castillo Gallery Miami Florida December 1 2015 January 31 2016 Eight Sculptors Paula Copper Gallery New York New York November 10 December 22 2012 2018 Ceremonial Exhibition Work by new members and recipients of awards American Academy of Arts and Letters 33 Collections editBiggers work is held in the following permanent collections Studio Museum in Harlem 34 Brooklyn Museum 35 Museum of Modern Art 36 Whitney Museum 37 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 38 Metropolitan Museum of Art 39 Minnesota Museum of American Art 40 Walker Art Center 41 The Phillips Collection 42 References edit a b Modern Exhibitions Archived July 4 2011 at the Wayback Machine Schachter Rove Kenny Sanford Biggers Notions rovetv net Archived from the original on 2011 01 02 Retrieved 2010 07 12 a b Cunningham Vinson 8 January 2018 The Playful Political Art of Sanford Biggers via www newyorker com The Playful Political Art of Sanford Biggers newyorker com 8 January 2018 Retrieved 2021 03 10 Biggers Sanford Keith Amy Elisa 2014 02 20 On the Record With Sanford Biggers BET com Retrieved 2015 11 11 Lesage Dieter amp Wudtke Ina Black Sound White Cube Locker Verlag June 11 2010 Bleckner Ross BOMB Magazine Rashid Johnson by Sanford Biggers Bombsite com Retrieved 2010 07 15 a b Yablonsky Linda ARTnews ARTnews Archived from the original on 2010 10 25 Retrieved 2010 07 15 Sanford Biggers at the Renaissance Society Archived from the original on 2012 09 08 archive Artforum com Retrieved 2010 07 15 a b BAM PFA Art Exhibitions Sanford Biggers MATRIX 197 Bampfa berkeley edu Archived from the original on 2010 06 11 Retrieved 2010 07 15 a b Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum EXHIBITIONS Sbcaf org Retrieved 2010 07 15 a b c WM whitehot magazine of contemporary art April 2010 Interview with Sanford Biggers Retrieved 2010 07 15 a b Bachelors Degree Program Vcu edu Archived from the original on 2010 07 07 Retrieved 2010 07 15 a b c Sanford Biggers Time Out New York Retrieved 2010 07 15 Gilmore Georgette 2014 11 14 MAM Art Talks Thursday Sanford Biggers Baristanet Baristanet Retrieved 2015 11 11 Sanford Biggers Public Art at Harvard Ofa fas harvard edu Archived from the original on 2010 06 27 Retrieved 2010 07 15 VCU Sculpture Extended Media Vcu edu Archived from the original on 2010 05 28 Retrieved 2010 07 15 Visual Arts Faculty Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate MFA Programs Pp cc columbia edu Archived from the original on January 7 2009 Retrieved 2010 07 15 NYFA 2019 Hall of Fame Event 29 January 2019 Retrieved 2019 03 28 Greenfield Winners www greenfieldprize org Retrieved 2016 04 05 Sanford Biggers Codex www ringling org Retrieved 2016 04 05 Sanford Biggers Wins 2009 William H Johnson Prize www artforum com Retrieved 2016 04 05 http creative capital org projects view 23 dead link Sanford Biggers eyebeam org eyebeam org Retrieved 2016 01 28 iniva Sanford Biggers www iniva org Retrieved 2016 02 01 Cunningham Vinson 2018 01 08 The Playful Political Art of Sanford Biggers An under sung artist upends received ideas about race and history The New Yorker Retrieved 2018 02 04 2018 Ceremonial Exhibition Work by New Members and Recipients of Awards American Academy of Arts and Letters artsandletters org Retrieved 2018 05 29 The Heinz Awards Sanford Biggers www heinzawards net Retrieved 2021 11 18 Exhibitions Sanford Biggers official website Retrieved December 5 2017 Blossom by Sanford Biggers 2007 Brooklyn Museum 2018 Ceremonial Exhibition Work by New Members and Recipients of Awards American Academy of Arts and Letters artsandletters org Retrieved 29 May 2018 Sanford Biggers www studiomuseum org Retrieved 2023 02 24 Sanford Biggers www brooklynmuseum org Retrieved 2023 02 24 Sanford Biggers www moma org Retrieved 2023 02 24 Sanford Biggers www whitney org Retrieved 2023 02 24 Sanford Biggers www mcachicago org Retrieved 2023 02 24 Borne by the River www metmuseum org Retrieved 2023 02 24 Semaphore www collections artsmia org Retrieved 2023 02 24 Sanford Biggers www walkerart org Retrieved 2023 02 24 SANFORD BIGGERS www phillipscollection org Retrieved 2023 02 24 External links editSanford Biggers at Marianne Boesky Gallery Sanford Biggers and Jennifer Zackin a small world A 2012 exhibition at The Jewish Museum NY Show and Tell Sanford Biggers NY Mag Stranger Fruit indeed Harvard Gazette Sanford Biggers s Moon Medicine at Contemporary Arts Forum Santa Barbara Independent Review Sanford Biggers at the Portland Art Museum Oregon Live This year s Greenfield Prize winner melds a variety of talents and thoughts Herald Tribune The deeply political bold and rich work of Harlem s Sanford Biggers ALL ARTS Sanford Biggers Opens Multimedia Installation at Rockefeller Center Portals nbsp United States nbsp Biography Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Sanford Biggers 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