 Sanford BiggersA native of Los Angeles, California and a resident of New York, Sanford Biggers creates multi-disciplinary artworks that integrate film/video installation, sculpture, music and performance. Influenced by his experiences in the United States, Europe and Japan, and by Buddhism, hip-hop and urban culture, Biggers’ work is known for its combination of meditative rigor and improvisatory edge. Sanford Biggers’ installations, videos and performances have attracted audiences in venues worldwide, including the Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Museum in New York, the Studio Museum in Harlem, N.Y., and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, as well as institutions in China, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Poland and Russia. Biggers has had solo exhibitions at the Grand Arts Gallery in Kansas City, the Mary Goldman Gallery in Los Angeles, the Triple Candie Gallery in New York, the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, the Matrix/University of Berkeley Museum and the Zamek Ujazdowski in Warsaw. He has received awards and grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, the New York Percent for Art Program, the Lambent Fellowship in the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, among others. Biggers is presently an Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Expanded Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is represented by the Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles.
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