Sanford Biggers works across disciplines and cultures, creating sculpture, video, performance, music, and photographs. Incorporating icons and rites ranging from Japanese mandalas and slave quilts to hip-hop and YouTube music culture, Biggers’s work connects the signifiers and patterns that link African spiritualism, Buddhist sacred rituals, and African-American urban culture.
Born in Los Angeles, Biggers currently lives in New York and is a Visual Arts professor at Columbia University.
Also don’t miss: The Contemporary Presents: Sanford Biggers with Moon Medicin Performance, Friday, April 10, 8:30P, Jones Center Roof Deck