Sanford Biggers is an American interdisciplinary artist who works in film and video, installation, sculpture, music, and performance.
[5] 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.
[21] The commission formed the centerpiece of Sanford Biggers: Codex, a 2012 solo exhibition at the Ringling Museum[22] curated by Matthew McLendon.
[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.