Sanford Biggers

Field of Practice:

Visual Arts

City, Country:

New York City, United States

Year:

2005, 2006, 2007

Stay(s):

Jan 2007 - June 2007

Website(s):

www.sanfordbiggers.com

Born in 1970.

Bachelor of Arts at Morehouse College in Atlanta (GA)/USA Master of Fine Arts at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (IL)/USA. Professor of Sculpture at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond (VA)/USA.

Selected solo exhibitions: Both/And Not Either/Or (Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati (OH)/USA, 2004), Notions (Kenny Schachter Gallery, London/Great Britain, 2005).

Selected group exhibitions: Whitney Biennale (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/USA, 2002), The Here and Now (The Renaissance Society, Chicago, 2005), The Dalai Lama Portrait Project: The Missing Peace, The 100 for Tibet. (2005), Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970 (Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (TX)/USA, 2005).

He received several fellowships, including a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts (San Francisco (CA)/USA, 2003) and at the Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw/Poland  2005.