Dressed in a suit and tie, Sanford Biggers entered a Chicago diner teeming with businesspeople. Briefcases in hand, they exchanged small talk and serious nods. Biggers clung to his own briefcase while slowly taking a seat, alone, at the counter to order breakfast…
Drawing from a diverse range of sources – including Eastern spiritualism, black vernacular expression, 1970s process art, urban culture, and technology, Biggers’ work seamlessly blends contemporary hip-hop expressions with the ancient principles of Buddhism…
An important motivation for artist Sanford Biggers’ work is travel and the resulting integration of aesthetics and traditions of various cultures into his art…
A 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…