Sanford Dennis Biggar

Place: Los Angeles

Born: 1970

Biography:

Sanford Biggers is an American interdisciplinary artist who works in film and video, installation, sculpture, music, and performance. He was born in Los Angeles, California in 1970 and 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. Biggers's art frequently references African-American ethnography, hip hop music, Buddhism, African spirituality, Indo-European Vodoun, jazz, Afrofuturism, urban culture and icons from the past and present. His work has been presented internationally including the Tate Modern in London, the Renaissance Society in Chicago, Prospect 1 in New Orleans, and the Whitney Biennial in New York. He currently lives and works in New York City.