• Subjective Cosmology, MOCAD, Detroit, MI
• Hither & Yon, Massimo De Carlo Gallery, London, UK
• Mantra, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
• New Work, Monique Meloche Projects, New York, NY
• New Monuments – Sanford Biggers: Laocoön, Cressman Center for Visual Art, Louisville, KY
• The pasts they brought with them, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL

• Danpatsu, outdoor video screening, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
• Shake, Shuffle, Urban Video Project, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
• Vex, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
• 3 Dollars & 6 Dimes, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
• Floating World, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NY

• Dark Star, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
• Sugar, Pork, Bourbon, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
• Ago, Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL
• Codex, VCUarts Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA

• Codex, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL
• The Cartographer’s Conundrum, MassMoCA, North Adams, MA

2011

• Sweet Funk: An Introspective Survey, Brooklyn Museum of Art. New York, NY, Curated by Eugenie Tsai
• Cosmic Voodoo Circus, Sculpture Center, New York, NY,  Curated by Mary Ceruti

2010

• Moon Medicine, Contemporary Arts Forum. Santa Barbara, CA,  Curated by Miki Garcia (catalog), (traveling to University of the South, Sewanee,TN)

2009

• Constellation (Stranger Fruit), Harvard, OFA
• Blossom, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Curated by Bruce Guenther
• Peculiar Institutions, Solvent Space. Richmond, VA

2008

• Sanford Biggers, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY

2007

• Blossom, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO (catalog)

2006

• Freedom and Other Seldom Travelled Roads, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Notions, Kenny Schachter Rove, London, UK (catalog)

2005

• The Afronomical Way, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
• (editioned custom catalog)
• New Work, Triple Candie, New York, NY

2004

• Sanford Biggers, Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Both/And Not Either/Or, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
• (traveling to the Contemporary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD)

2002

• Creation/Dissipation, Trafo Gallery, Budapest Hungary
• Afro Temple, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalog)
• Psychic Windows, Matrix Gallery, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (catalog)

2012

• a small world…(installation on view from the permanent collection), The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
• Transmission LA: AV Club, Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles, CA
• African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center, David C. Driskell Center, College Park, MD
• Contemporary Mandala: New Audiences, New Forms, Emory University Visual Arts, Gallery, Atlanta, GA
• US Embassy in Tokyo Exhibition for Ambassador John V. Roos, Tokyo, Japan

2011

• The Bearden Project, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY
• 15 x15, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
• Black Sound, White Cube, Kunstquariter Benthanien, Berlin, Germany.
• Curated by Ina Wudtke and Dieter Lesage.
• Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, Bronx
• Museum of Arts, New York, NY
• Infinite Mirror, Syracuse University Art Galleries (and traveling), Syracuse, NY
• Sweetcake Enso, Village Zendo, New York, NY

2010

• Grains of Emptiness, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
• Signs of Life: Ancient Knowledge in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne,
• Switzerland
• Resurrectine, Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
• Reflection, Nathan A. Bernstein Gallery, New York, NY
• Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
• Who are you close to, JANE KIM/ thrust projects, New York, NY
• Progress Reports – Art in an Age of Diversity, Iniva, London, UK
• Spirit Up! Event Notation and the Invocation of Spirit in Contemporary Art. CCS Bard,
• Annadale-on-Hudson, NY Curated by Daniel Mason
• 2010: Searching for the Heart of Black Identity, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft

2009

• 30 Seconds Off an Inch, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
• Curated by Naomi Beckwith
• Americana, New Society for Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
• Curated by Frank Wagner
• Passages, Revisiting Histories: Sanford Biggers + Andrea Geyer & Simon J. Ortiz,
• Lambent Foundation, New York, NY
• Curated by Niels von Tomme
• Intrinsic Trio: Biggers, Gilliam and Scott. Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
• Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor, Katonah Museum of Art, Bedford NY
• Jack Wolgin Competition Finalists, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
• Carnival Within, Uferhalle, Berlin, Germany
• Curated by Uta Grundmann, Sabine Russ and Gregory Volk
• Hidden Cities, Stephen Vittielo and Perrgrine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
• Curated by Christian Marclay

2008

• Prospect 1: US Biennial. Old US Mint. New Orleans, LA
• Curated by Dan Cameron. catalog
• Nippon in Black, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
• Curated by Fanon Che Wilkins.
• NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith, Menil Collection, Houston TX
• Curated by Franklin Sirmans. (Traveling)
• Unknown Pleasures, Aspen Museum of Art. Aspen, CO
• Curated by Matthew Thompson.
• Into the Trees. Art Omi. Ghent, NY C
• Curated by Lily Wei
• Shuffle. Schloss Solitude. Stuttgart, Germany

2007

• Illuminations, curated by Lucy Askew and Ben Borthwick. Tate Modern, London, UK
• 3 Day Museum, Okinawa Museum, Okinawa, Japan
• Performa 07; The Performance Art Biennial. New York, NY
• MANUAL cc : Instructions for Beginners and Advanced Players, Kronika Gallery, Bytom, Poland
• Pretty Baby, Modern Art Museum Fort Worth, TX
• For the Love of the Game, The Amistad Center for Arts and Culture. Hartford, CT
• Curated by Franklin Sirmans
• Black Light/White Noise. Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
• Curated by Valerie Cassel
• Paradise & Inferno: The Post Millennial Black Madonna. MoCADA & Skylight,New York,
• NY
• Intelligent Design. Momenta, New York, NY
• Urbanity. Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany

2006

• New York, Interrupted. PKM Gallery, Beijing, China.
• Curated by Dan Cameron
• The Black Moving Cube: Black Figuration & The Moving Image. The Tate Britain, London, UK
• Fountains. D’Amelio Terras. New York, NY
• Twisted Roots. WPA/ Corcoran & DCAC. Washington, DC.
• Everybody Dance. The Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts.
• The Dalai Lama Portrait Project: The Missing Peace, The 100 for Tibet. (traveling)
• Art Rock, Rockerfeller Center, New York, NY
• Black Alphabet, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

2005

• D’Afrique d’Asie, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY (traveling)
• Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum,
• Houston, TX Curated by Valerie Cassel
• The Here and Now, The Renassaince Society, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL
• Curated by Hamza Walker

2004

• Join Us (Calls of Ecstasy from the Edge of Oblivion), Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO

2003

• Somewhere Better Than This Place, Contemporary Art Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Curated by Stacy Switzer
• Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Kuti, The New Museum, New York, NY
• Curated by Trevor Schoonmaker. Catalog, traveling.
• Shuffling the Deck, Princeton Museum of Art, Princeton, NJ
• Curated by Eugenie Tsai. catalog
• The Commodification of Buddhism, Bronx Museum, New York, NY
• Curated by Lydia Yee. catalog
• Black Belt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
• Curated by Christine Kim. catalog

2002

• Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
• Curated by Larry Rindler. catalog
• Family, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (catalogue)

2001

• One Planet Under a Groove, Bronx Museum, New York, NY
• Curated by Franklin Sirmans and Lydia Yee. traveling/catlogue
• Zoning, The Project, New York, NY
• Curated by Sofia Hernandez-Choy and Tumelo Musaka
• Freestyle, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
• Curated by Thelma Golden. catalog)
• Rapper’s Delight, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
• Altoid’s Curiously Strong Collection, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, NY 2000 Full Service, Kenny Schachter, New York, NY

2018  

• PLACE, Directed by Patricia McGregor. Scenic design by Sanford Biggers & Tim Brown
  Co-commissioned and co-produced by Beth Morrison Projects and the Los Angeles Philharmonic 

2016  

• Sculpture Commission – Equal Justice Initiative, The Legacy Museum, Montgomery, AL.
• L’Amant Anonyme, (Art Direction) Little Opera Theater, 59E59, New York, NY

2013   

• Absolut X, Art Director for New York event featuring Santigold and Questlove, New York, NY

2009

• New York Percent for the Arts. Eagle Academy, New York, NY
• Marshall S. Cogan Visiting Artist in the Office for the Arts Public Art Program, Harvard,
• University, Cambridge, MA
• Hidden Cities, curated by Christian Marclay, Stephen Vittielo and Perrgrine Arts.
• Philadelphia, PA

2008

• The Norton Family Christmas Project
• Ahh Decadence… (Exhibition Designer). Curated by Lisa Wainwright. The School of The
• Art Institute of Chicago, Sullivan Galleries
• The Voting Booth Project, The Rema Hort Man Foundation, David Zwirner Gallery and
• Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY

2019

• Un-televised Revolutions, Moon Medicin, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC
• Moon Medicin, Chazen Art Museum, Madison, WI

2018    Moon Medicin, The Jazz Museum, Kansas City, MO, for Open Spaces

2017     Suburban Invasion / Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, in collaboration with Xaviera Simmons & Michael Stablein. The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

2016

• Moon Medicin, MOCAD, Detroit, MI
• Moon Medicin, Harlem Stage, New York, NY

2015

• Moon Medicin, ASU Gammage, Tempe, AZ
• Moon Medicin, The Jones Center at The Contemporary Austin, Austin CO

2014

• Moon Medicin, Creative Capital Annual Benefit, New York, NY
• Moon Medicin, Neuehouse, New York, NY
• Moon Medicin, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
• Moon Medicn, Georgia Tech Ferst Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA

2013

• Mixtape by Moon Medicin, The Apollo Theater, New York, NY

2012

• Mixtape by Moon Medicin, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
• Mixtape by Moon Medicine, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2011

• Mixtape by Moon Medicine, Art Public at Art Basel, Miami, FL
• Moon Medicine (Feat. Sanford Biggers, Imani Uzuri, Sumie Kaneko, DJ Jahi Sundance and
• Mark Hines), Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY

2010

• Forum Lounge: Sanford Biggers (Feat. Gamelan Sinar Surya and DJ Jahi Sundance), Contemporary Arts Forum. Santa Barbara, CA

2009

• Stranger Fruit (Feat. Imani Uzuri), Harvard University OFA, Cambridge, MA
• Conundrum, The Kitchen, New York, NY Curated by Rashida Bumbray

2007

• The Somethin’ Suite, Performa 07, New York, NY

2006

• Cosmic Conundrum. UCLA Fowler Museum. Los Angeles, CA
• The Warsaw Pack(ed), Zacheta Gallery of National Art, Warsaw, Poland/ Temple Bar, Los Angeles, CA

2002

• Creation/Dissipation, Trafo Art Space, Budapest, Hungary.

2000

• Mandala of the B-Bodhisattva, Bronx Community College
• OM, Full Serve, New York, NY
• The Art of Breaking, Downtown Arts Festivals, New York, NY

1998

• Slam, CBGB’s, New York, NY
• Communication Breakdown, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL
• Racine des Memoirs, Skowhegan, ME
• Dark Magus, CBGB’s, New York, NY

1997

• Cane Song Cycles, Sculpture Center, New York, NY

2006

• Malleable, Kuhn Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

2004

• (In)visible Silence, guest curator of three person show, School 33, Baltimore, MD

2001

• Sticky Fingers, curated by Sanford Biggers and Elaine Ng, Para-Site Art Space,
• Hong Kong, China

2013

• Columbia University’s Office of the Provost’s Junior Faculty Grant
• New York York City’s Art Teacher’s Association’s Artist-of-the-Year
• Georgia Tech Ferst Center for the Arts Africa Atlanta 2014/STEAM Residency
• JWT’s Differenter Committee’s Innovators of Change Award

2012

• Berlin Prize Fellowship from the American Academy (to take place 2014)

2010

• Greenfield Prize at the Hermitage Artist Retreat

2009

• Harvard University Visiting Assistant Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies
• Harvard University’s Office of Fine Arts’ Artist in Residence
• Creative Time Travel Grant for Global Residency Project
• Denniston Hill Research Grant
• William H. Johnson Prize

2008

• Creative Capital Foundation Grant

2007

• New York Percent for the Arts Commission, New York, NY
• Art Matters Grant, New York, NY
• Akademie Schloss Solitude (residency), Stuttgart, Germany

2005

• AIR Laboratory. Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
• Lambent Fellowship in the Arts TIDES Foundation grant, New York, NY
• Fellow in Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Work from the New York Foundation for the
• Arts.

2004

• Pennies From Heaven/ New York Community Trust Grant

2003

• ARCUS Project Residency, Moriya City, Japan
• Headlands Center for the Arts/ AWAKE: “Art, Buddhism, and the Dimensions of
• Consciousness” (residency) San Francisco, CA

2002

• Art In General/ Trafo Gallery Eastern European Exchange Residency Budapest, Hungary

2001

• Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant
• Socrates Sculpture Park Residency, Long Island City, NY

2000

• World Views Artist in Residence, World Trade Center, New York, NY
• Eyebeam/ New York City Annenberg Challenge for Arts Education, New York, NY
• (Residency in teaching at Chelsea Vocational High School)
• Studio Museum in Harlem Artists-in-Residence, New York, NY
• P.S. 1 Studio Residency, New York, NY

1999

• The School of the Art Institute of Chicago James Nelson Raymond Fellowship
• The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Graduate Incentive Scholarship

1998

• Camille Hanks-Cosby Scholarship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture,
• Skowhegan, ME

1996

• Santa Fe Public Art Fund Grant, Los Angeles, CA

1990

• Central Metals Sculpture Competition, second place, Atlanta, GA

1999

• Masters in Fine Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1998

• The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

1997

• Maryland Institute of College of Art, Baltimore, MD

1992

• Bachelor of Arts, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA

1991

• Syracuse University (Department of International Programs Abroad), Florence Italy

1/10 – 2019   Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, Visual Arts

Columbia University. New York, NY

1/09 – 12/09   Assistant Professor of Sculpture

Harvard University, VES Depart. Cambridge, MA

1/09 – Present   Affiliate Faculty of Sculpture & Extended Media

Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA

1/06 – 1/09   Assistant Professor of Sculpture & Extended Media

Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA

9/00 – 9/02   Co-Director and Instructional Coordinator of Saturday Outreach Program.

Cooper Union, New York, NY

2012

• International Sculpture Center Conference Keynote Speaker, Chicago, IL
• Comradely Objects: Art Against Reification Conference Speaker, The New School, New York, NY
• James A. Porter Colloquium on African Art, Keynote Speaker, Howard University,
• Washington DC
• AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Awards Ceremony Presenter, Asia Society,
• New York, NY
• Ringling College, Sarasota, FL
• The University of the South, Sewanee, TN
• Anderson Ranch Summer Workshop Visiting Artist
• Art Papers Lecture Series, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
• International Sculpture Center Conference, Keynote Speaker, Chicago, IL

2011

• Festival of the New Black Imagination with Wangechi Mutu and Greg Tate, Brooklyn, NY
• Brooklyn Museum Conversation with Mos Def and Marcus Samuelsson
• Food Republic Panel with Marcus Samuelsson, Dylan Ratigan and Eddie Chai, New
• York, NY
• Sotheby’s Institute, New York, NY
• Spelman College, Atlanta, GA
• Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ
• Creative Time Global Residency Talk, New York, NY

2010

• Visiting Faculty Artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
• MOMA, Conversations Among Friends: with Lorraine O’Grady & RoseLee Goldberg,
• New York, NY
• Columbia University, Work in Progress: Conversation with Dr. Kellie Jones, New York,
• NY

2009

• Revisiting Histories: A conversation between Sanford Biggers, Andrea Geyer and Simon
• J. Ortiz, Lambent Foundation, NY
• Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum, Conversation with Dr. Steven Nelson and Helen
• Molesworth, Cambridge, MA
• Harvard University Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Cambridge, MA
• American University, Washington, DC
• Buddhist Sculpture Contemporary Art Forum, Victoria and Albert Museum, London,
• England
• Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
• Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
• Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO
• Gelman Lecturer. Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY
• Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
• Pew Fellowships in the Arts Interdisciplinary Awards Panel

2008

• SkowheganTALKS presents a dialog between artists Sanford Biggers and Paul Pfeiffer
• PS1 Contemporary Art Center Subjective Histories of Sculpture
• The Sculpture lecture series presents: Sanford Biggers. Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New York, NY

2016

• Forthcoming: Farrington, Lisa, “African American Art”,Oxford University Press, USA.
• Forthcoming: Garrett, Natalie Eve,“The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook”, powerHouse Cultural Entertainment, Inc.

2015

• Tate, Steve, “Artist Provocateaur: Sanford Biggers”, Ubikwist, No. 1, Fall Issue.
• “Between the Lines: A Coloring Book by Contemporary Artists”, The RxArt Coloring Book, Vol. 5, http://www.rxart.net/store/between-the-lines-a-coloring-book-by-contemporary-artists-volume-5
• Nelson, Solveig “The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music 1965 to Now”, Artforum, Nov.
• Waxman, Lori “Freedom Principal at MCA”, Chicago Tribune, Nov 11. http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/ct-freedom-principle-mca-review-ent-1112-20151111-column.html
• Farago, Jason, “The Freedom Principle – an astounding fusion of jazz and art”. The Guardian, July. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jul/17/the-freedom-principle-review-jazz-art
• NPR Specials, The American Academy In Berlin presents the Spring 2015 publication of The Berlin Journal http://www.nprberlin.de/post/npr-specials-berlin-journal-spring-2015-2
• Hawley, Charles, “Portfolio”, Berlin Journal, Number 28, Spring 2015. https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/38991825/spring-2015-issue-28
• “Akademie X, Lessions in Art + Life”, Phaidon Press, Feb 23.

2014

• “Zingmagazine – #24”, Zingmagazine
• Valentine, Victoria L.“Culture Type: The Year in Black Art 2014”, Culturetype, Dec 27. http://www.culturetype.com/2014/12/27/culture-type-the-year-in-black-art-2014/
• Sutton, Benjamin, “Artists Hit the Highway in Search of New Viewers”, Artnet, August 20.
• Miranda, Carolina. “Frida Kahlo.” ARTnews. July 14.
• Lohr, Nikki, “Moon Medicin at Neuehouse”, Gallerist/New York Observer, June 24. http://observer.com/2014/06/sweet-medicine-sanford-biggers-and-his-band-moon-medicin play-at-neuehouse/
• “Miami Galleries are Jammed with Noteworthy Exhibitions”, The Miami Herald, June 20. http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/06/20/4186246/miami-galleries-are-jammed-with.html
• McDermott, Emily “Follow that Sh*t, Don’t Think About it Too Much, Just Do it. Sanford Biggers talks his Band, Moon Medicin.” Complex, June 20.
• “In Conversation with Sanford Biggers and Robb Pruitt.” Art South Africa. June 12. http://sanfordbiggers.com/pages/press/ArtinAmericaMarch11SBiggers.pdf
• “NYC-Based artist Sanford Bigger’s Solo Exhibition at David Castillo The Miami Art Scene. Jun 8. http://www.themiamiartscene.com/nyc-based-artist-sanford-biggers-solo-exhibition-at-david-castillo-gallery/
• Weathersby, Irvin. “Why is this White Woman in a Morehouse Shirt?” The Root, June 6. http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/06/white_woman_in_morehouse_shirt_sanford_biggers_provocative_photograph.html
• Dees, Sasha. “Sanford Biggers: A Quilted Conversatio.” Africanah.org, May 6.
• Gilsdorf, Ben. “Metabolic Bodies.” The Miami Herald, May.
• Fullerton, Elizabeth.“How Artists are using Music to Seduce, Confound (and Entertain Us)” ARTnews. April 23
• “When Worlds Collide.” Vibe Magazine, Winter 2014.
• Alexander, Andrew. “Sanford Biggers returns to Atlanta this week.” Creative Loafing Atlanta, Mar 25. http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2014/03/25/sanford-biggers-returns-to-atlanta-this-week
• Wolff, Rachel. “Science Friction: Sci-Fi Gets Real.” Mar 5. http://www.artnews.com/2014/03/05/sci-fi-gets-real-in-artworks/
• Goffstein, Sarah. “A Memory Jar for Terry Adkins (1953-2014).” The Brooklyn Rail. Mar 4. http://brooklynrail.org/2014/03/art/a-memory-jug-for-terry-adkins-19532014
• Alexander, Andrew. “A Critic’s Notebook: March’s Top Events” Creative Loafing Atlanta. Feb 26. http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2014/02/26/a-critics-notebook-marchs-top-events
• Anti-Robot Radio Show with Moonshyne Brown: Guests: Moon Medicin, Feb 1. http://www.blogtalkradio.com/antirobotnetwork/2014/02/02/anti-robot-radio-show-w-moonshyne-brown-guests-moon-medicine
• Cotter, Holland. “Lost in the Gallery-Industrial Complex.” The New York Times. Jan 17. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/arts/design/holland-cotter-looks-at-money-in-art.html?ref=hollandcotter&_r=0
• Hirsch, Faye. “Sanford Biggers: Floating World.” Art in Print. Volume 3, Number 5.
• Cercone, Katie. “EYE CANDY IS DANDY: Rashaad Newsome’s Hip-Hop Heraldry & the New Black Swag.” Art Papers. January/February.
• Cembalest, Robin. “Avant-Garde Quilt Explosion!” ARTnews. Jan 30.

2013

• 2013   Faumberg, Jason. “12 Incredible Works of Art Bought by Chicago Museums in 2013” Chicago Magazine. December 30. http://www.chicagomag.com/arts-culture/December-2013/What-Chicago-Museums-Bought-This-Year/
• “Expo Chicago—Sanford Biggers, Elysia Borowy-Reeder and Jose Lerma.” Bad At Sports Episode 433. Dec 17. http://badatsports.com/2013/episode-433-expo-chicago-sanford-biggers-elysia-borowy-reeder-and-jose-lerma/
• Cembalest, Robin. “Miami Finally Has the Art Museum It Deserves.” ARTnews. Dec 5.
• “Goings On About Town: The Studio Museum.” The New Yorker. Dec. 2. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/2013/12/02/131202gofr_GOAT_front
• Quinn, Chase.“The Days of Future Past: Afrofuturism and Black Memory.”Hyperallergic Nov 27 http://hyperallergic.com/95760/the-days-of-future-past-afrofuturism-and-black-memory/
• Glasberg, Eve. “LeRoy Neiman’s Gift to the School of the Arts Provides Hands-on Printmaking Expertise.” Nov 18. http://news.columbia.edu/neimanprints
• “The Artist’s Way: Sanford Biggers.” BET.com. Oct 2. http://www.bet.com/video/lifestyle/2013/the-artists-way-sanford-biggers.html
• Long, Monique. “If You Like…” Studio: The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine. Summer/Fall 2013.
• Miller, Andrea. “Steel, Roses and Slave Ships.” Shambala Sun. September.
• Brooks, Katherine. “25 Artists You Should Be Following on Instagram.” August 12. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/12/artists-on-instagram_n_3728119.html
• Sanford Biggers Interview. Arise Entertainment 360. July 10. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFxQ3gAyo0I
• Goleas, Janet. “Sanford Biggers @ Eric Firestone Gallery.” Whitehot Magazine. July. http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/sanford-biggers-eric-firestone-gallery/2817
• Newton, Karen. “Codes and Clouds.” Style Weekly. June 11. http://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/codes-and-clouds/Content?oid=1906830
• Rose-Shapiro, Annette M., “Feast for the Eyes,” ARTnews. February.
• Onli, Meg. “Ago” Black Visual Archive. May 21. http://blackvisualarchive.com/2013/05/ago/
• Pollack, Barbars. “The Civil War in Art, Then and Now.” ARTnew. May 15. http://www.artnews.com/2013/05/15/the-civil-war-in-art-then-andnow/
• Campion, Michelle Gray. “Culture Clash. The Biggers Deal,” Gravure, Issue 7 Spring/Summer.
• Perra, Daniele. “Sanford Biggers: Django Unchained in salsa quilt.” Artribune. April 28. http://www.artribune.com/2013/04/sanford-biggers-django-unchained-in-salsa-quilt/
• Huebner, Jeff. “Sanford Biggers manifests a new destiny with Ago.” Chicago Reader. April 26. http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/jeff-huebner-on-sanford-biggers-ago-at-monique-meloche/Content?oid=9431093

2012

• Wolff, Rachel. “Hank Willis Thomas Stages a Photo Shoot:  How Sanford Biggers Came to  Strike a Pose as a Two-Faced Dandy.” ARTnews. November.
• Castro, Jan Garden. “Sanford Biggers: Music, Afrofuturism and Re-visioning History.” Black Renaissance Noire. Volume 12, Issue 1, Fall.
• Castro, Jan Garden. “Syncretic Improvisations: A Conversation with Sanford Biggers.” Sculpture, October.
• Gaskins, Nettrice. Polyculturalist Visions Revisited. Art:21. September 4. http://blog.art21.org/2012/09/04/polyculturalist-visions-revisited/
• Gaskins, Nettrice. “Sanford Biggers’ Conundrum: The Mothership Lands at Mass MoCA.” Art:21. June 19. http://blog.art21.org/2012/06/19/sanford-biggers-conundrum-the-mothership-lands-at-mass-moca/
• Gaskins, Nettrice. “Sanford Biggers’ Codex Navigates the Past, Present, Future.” Art:21. April 24. http://blog.art21.org/2012/04/24/sanford-biggers-codex-navigates-the-past-present-and-future/
• von Arbin Ahlander, Astri. Interview with Sanford Biggers. The Days of Yore April 23. http://www.thedaysofyore.com/sanford-biggers/
• The Insider’s Guide, publication for Transmission LA: AV Club, Geffen Contemporary at MoCA,Los Angeles, CA. April 20. http://issuu.com/theusualmontauk/docs/av_club_magazine_final_issuu?mode=window&backgroundColor=%23222222
• MacVean, Mary. “Chef Marcus Samuelsson talks about art, ethnicity.” Los Angeles Times. Jul 10. “http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2012/07/chef-marcus-samuelsson-talks-about-art-ethnicity.html” http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2012/07/chef-marcus-samuelsson-talks-about-art- ethnicity.html
• Gaskins, Nettrice, Sanford Biggers Conundrum: The Mothership Lands at Mass MoCA, art: 21 blog, Jun 19. “http://blog.art21.org/2012/06/19/sanford-biggers-conundrum-the-mothership-lands-at-mass-moca/” http://blog.art21.org/2012/06/19/sanford-biggers-conundrum-the-mothership-lands-at-mass-moca/
• Gaskins, Nettrice. Sanford Biggers’ Codex Navigates the Past, Present and Future. Apr 24. “http://blog.art21.org/2012/04/24/sanford-biggers-codex-navigates-the-past-present-and-future/” http://blog.art21.org/2012/04/24/sanford-biggers-codex-navigates-the-past-present-and-future/
• Rico a.k.a. Superbizee, Somethin’ Suite: Okayplayer Interview with Sanford Biggers, okayplayer,
• May 31. “http://www.okayplayer.com/interviews/somethin-suite-okayplayer-interview-w-artist-
• sanford- biggers.html” http://www.okayplayer.com/interviews/somethin-suite-okayplayer-interview-w-artist-
• sanford- biggers.html
• Gaskins, Nettrice. Sanford Biggers: Contemporary Mandala and the Hip-Hop Ethos. Mar 23.
• Cooke, Erica.“Sanford Biggers’ futuristic vision at Mass MoCA.”The Art Newspaper. Feb 6 http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Sanford+Biggers%E2%80%99s+futuristic+vision+at+Mass+MoCA/25668
• Smee, Sebastian. “Music, Memory, Mystery on view.” BostonGlobe.com. Mar 1. http://articles.boston.com/2012-03-01/arts/31199369_1_instruments-piano-keys-pews
• Pasori, Cedar, Alex Morency and Nick Shonberger. “The 100 Most Influential Artists of the
• Complex Decade.” Complex.com. http://www.complex.com/art-design/2012/04/the-100-most-influential-artists-of-the-complex-decade/sanford-biggers

2011

• Martinez, Alanna. “The Top 20 Shows to See in 2012.” Artinfo. December 30. “http://www.artinfo.com/photo-galleries/slideshow-images-from-the-top-20-shows-to-see-in-2012?image=4” http://www.artinfo.com/photo-galleries/slideshow-images-from-the-top-20-shows-to-see-in-2012?image=4
• Sutton, Benjamin. “Sanford Biggers Goes Biggers in Brooklyn and Queens.” The L Magazine. November 4. “http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/sanford-biggers-goes-bigger-in-brooklyn-and-queens/Content?oid=2189850” http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/sanford-biggers-goes-bigger-in-brooklyn-and-queens/Content?oid=2189850
• Richard, Frances. “Sanford Biggers, Brooklyn Museum/SculptureCenter.” Artforum. December.
• Johnson, Ken. “Smile and Metaphor, Crossing Borough Lines.” The New York Times. October 20.
• Budick, Ariella. “Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk—An Introspective, Brooklyn Museum, New York.”
• Financial Times, October 20.
• Adkins, Terry. “Sanford Biggers.” Bomb Magazine, Fall.
• McGee, Celia. “First an Outcast, Then an Inspiration.” The New York Times, April 24.
• Cash, Stephanie. “In the Studio: Sanford Biggers.” Art in America, March.

2010

• Sanders, Brandee. “Art Basel Miami: Black Artists Push Creative Boundaries.” The Root,
• December, 8. http://www.theroot.com/multimedia/art-basel-miami-artist-images
• Jacobs, Ferenz. “Blanco es el nuevo negro” Lamono Magazine, November 3,
• “http://issuu.com/lamonomagazine/docs/lamono_68_ok_simple” http://issuu.com/lamonomagazine/docs/lamono_68_ok_simple
• Lesage, Dieter & Wudtke, Ina. “Black Sound White Cube.” Löcker Verlag (June 11)
• Goldberg, RoseLee. “Everywhere and All At Once: An Anthology of Writings on Performa 07.” JRP|Ringier (April 24)
• Butter, Thomas. “Interview with Sanford Biggers.” Whitehot Magazine (April) http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/2010-interview-with-sanford-biggers/2054
• Rife, Susan. “Greenfield Prize presented to NY artist.” Herald Tribune (April 16)
• Donelan, Charles. “Sanford Biggers’s Moon Medicine at Contemporary Arts Forum.” Santa Barbara Independent (March 18)
• http://www.independent.com/news/2010/mar/18/sanford-biggerss-moon-medicine-contemporary-arts-f/
• Mills, Ted. “Biggers than Most — The ever-expanding world of Sanford Biggers.” Santa Barbara News Press (March 12)
• Garcia, Miki. “Sanford Biggers: Moon Medicine.” Catalog by Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (March 3)
• Grudman, Uta, Volk, Gregory & Russ, Sabine. “Carnival Within: An Exhibition Made in America.” Verlag fur moderne Kunst Nurnber (February 28)
• Row, D.K. “Review” ‘Disquieted’ at the Portland Art Museum.” The Oregonian (February 22)
• Rife, Susan, L. “This year’s Greenfield Prize winner melds a variety of talents and thoughts.” Herald Tribune (January 24)

2009

• “Best of Manhattan 09: Arts & Entertainment.” New York Press (October 14) “http://www.nypress.com/article-20481-best-of-manhattan-arts-entertainment.html” http://www.nypress.com/article-20481-best-of-manhattan-arts-entertainment.html
• Newhall, Edith. “Galleries: Three artists vie for prize.” Philadelphia Inquirer (October 11)
• Miles, David. “The $150,000 Question.” Art Info (October 8)
• http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/32882/the-150000-question/
• Green, Kate. “Future Anterior: an index to contemporary art’s imminent history.” Art Papers (September/October)
• Soccoccia, Susan. “The curious world of Sanford Biggers.” The Bay State Banner (November 12)
• Sweeney, Sarah. “’Stranger Fruit,’ indeed.” Harvard Gazette (November 12)
• “Sanford Biggers Wins 2009 William H. Johnson Prize.” Artforum (Online, News) (September 17)
• Genocchio, Benjamin. “All Dressed Up at the Katonah Museum of Art.” The New York Times
• (August 21)
• Jahn, Jeff. “PAM acquires two Sanford Biggers works.” PORT (August 19)
• Bloemink, Barbara. “Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor.” The Huffington Post (August 12)
• Johnson, Barry. “Sanford Biggers: The Skittery Meaning of Trees.” The Oregonian (June 30)
• Bowie, Chas. “Review: Sanford Biggers at the Portland Art Museum.” (June 26)
• Blackburn, Mary Walling. “Virtual Sketchbook: Sanford Biggers’s Conundrum.” (April 27)
• Jackson, Brian Keith. “Talking About A Revolution.” Giant Magazine (April)
• Schwartz, Madeleine M. “Multifaceted Artist Biggers Dodges Simple Interpretations.” The Harvard
• Crimson (April10)
• Biggers, Sanford. “Artists on Artists: Rashid Johnson by Sanford Biggers.” BOMB Magazine (April)
• Schambelan, Elizabeth. “Civic Engagement.” Artforum (January)
• Carlin, TJ. “Sanford Biggers.” Time Out New York (issue 695) (January 22)
• http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/art/70814/sanford-biggers
• Gaines, Malik. “Sanford Biggers: The Big Idea.” RVA Magazine (Vol 4 issue 9)
• http://issuu.com/snooka/docs/webrva_v4i9final/15

2008

• “Southern Exposure.” The New York Times Magazine (December 7)
• Klein, Paul. “Art Lifts New Orleans.” The Huffington Post (November 4)
• “Halloween Special: New Orleans, Prospect 1.” ArtFagCity.com (October 31)
• Yablonsky, Linda. “Blue Note.” Artforum online (November 10)
• “Voting Becomes Art.” NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams (November 4) www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp/27542882#27542882
• “Best Solo Exhibition: Sanford Biggers at Grand Arts.” The Pitch http://www.pitch.com/bestof/ 2008/award/best-solo-exhibition-731232/
• Bodin, Claudia. “Prospect. 1 Biennale New Orleans.” Art Das Kunstmagazin (November 3)
• Artkrush (issue 96.) “http://artkrush.com/gallery/96/feature/10/Sanford-
• Biggers” http://artkrush.com/gallery/96/feature/10/Sanford-Biggers
• McAdams, Shane. “Sanford Biggers…” Art Voices (Issue 2008) (November): 40-41.
• Lewis, Christina. “The Big Easy’s Art Gumbo.” The Wall Street Journal Online (October 31)
• Cotter, Holland. “Making Secular Art Out of Religious Imagery.” The New York Times (October 29)
• Brookhardt, D. Eric. “The Big Easel.” Gambit Weekly (Vol 29, no. 44) (October 28): 21, 24.
• Johnson, Paddy. “The Voting Booth Project.” The Huffington Post (October 20)
• Jackson, Sharyn. “The Voting Booth Project.” Village Voice (October)
• WNYC Culture. “NeoHooDoo, Broadway, the Oxygen Hog, and ‘Mary’.” ART.CULT (October 20)

2007

• Beckwith, Naomi. “One to Watch [Sanford Biggers].” Artkrush (Issue 70: Performance Art) (October 31 – November 13)
• Brown, Angela K. “Fort Worth Exhibit Explores the Many Faces of Childhood.” Caller-Times (March 18)
• Chang, Jeff (ed.). “Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop.” Perseus Books
• Duff, Stacey. “A New York Minute.” Time Out Beijing (February): 45.
• Oliver, Valerie Cassel. “Meditations of a B-Boy Buddhist.” International Review of African American Art (Volume 21, Number 3): 51-54.
• Rabinowitz, Cay-Sophie. “Blossom.” Grand Arts Exhibition Catalog (October)
• Robinson, Gaile. “Modern’s Show Takes the Cute Out of Childhood.” Star Telegram (February 25)
• Self, Dana. “In the Keys of Life.” The Pitch (September 27 – October 3)
• Taft, Catherine. “Sanford Biggers.” Modern Painters (February): 95.
• Terranova, Charissa N. “Romper Rooms.” The Dallas Morning News (February 24): 1E, 6E.
• Thorson, Alice. “A Tree Among the Keys.” The Kansas City Star (October 14): F5.
• “Intelligent Design.” New Yorker (April 9)
• “Artists on Spirituality.” Art Asia Pacific (Winter): 89.
• 2006
• Artner, Allan. “Art of Peace: 88 Viewpoints on the Dalai Lama.” The Chicago Tribune (November 2)
• Brooks, Amra. “Must See Art: Freedom and Other Seldom Traveled Roads.” LA Weekly (November 29)
• Kino, Carol. “Young Collector Stefan Levine: Gas Man.” Art Basel Miami Beach (December): 72.
• Knight, Christopher. “’Jocko’ Represents a Cultural Battle.” Los Angeles Times (December 1)
• Larson, Kay. “Keeping the Faith.” ARTnews (February): 98-100.
• Larson, Kay. “The Missing Peace: Artist Consider the Dalai Lama.” The Shambhala Sun (November)
• Maerkle, Andrew. “Artist’s on Spirituality.” Art Asia Pacific (Winter)
• Newman, Andrew Adam. “Directions; The Golden Hour.” New York Times (Arts) (March 12)
• Smith, Roberta. “Chelsea is a Battlefield: Galleries Muster Groups.” New York Times (July 28)
• O’Sullivan, Michael. “Richmond artists Rooted in Histories.” The Washington Post (December 1)
• Szupinska, Joanna. “Paint It Black: African American Art Goes To Warsaw.” Artillery (December): 46.
• “A Bit of Richmond, Now Showing in D.C.” The Washington Post (November 9)

2005

• Dawson, Jessica. “Street Culture Bursts Into the Gallery.” The Washington Post (July 21)
• Bowles, John. “Sanford Biggers at the Contemporary Arts Center.” Art in America (January 2)
• Bryan-Wilson, Julia. “Split Decision.” BookForum (December)
• Houston, Kerr. “Review: Sanford Biggers.” Urbanite Magazine (January)
• Jackson, Brian Keith. “Show and Tell: Sanford Biggers.” New York Magazine (June)

2004

• Baas, Jaqueline & Jacob, Mary Jane(ed). Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art. * Univ. of
• California Press
• Bauer, Marilyn. “Cultural Fusion.” The Cincinnati Enquirer (May)
• Estes, Sarah. “Critics Pick: Both And Not Either Or.” The City Paper (October 27)

2003

• Glueck, Grace. “From Four Milleniums of Jewish Cultural Life.” New York Times (Arts) (June 27)
• Genocchio, Benjamin. “The Forgeries Are The Real Thing In This Exhibition.” New York Times (Arts) (April 13)
• Golonu, Berin. “Psychic Windows.” Sculpture (review) (January/February): 72-73.
• Greco, Stephen & Zita, Carmen. “State of the Art: In Sight.” Trace (issue #36): 53.
• Smith, Roberta. “A Cornucopia of Cultural Exchange, Beginning With A Martial Arts Hero.” New York Times(Arts) (November 28)
• Stillman, Nick “Black Belt.” The Brooklyn Rail (November)

2002

• Anderson, Tomika. “Art Heart’s Sake.” Vibe (April): 70.
• Bollen, Chris. “Outsider Art”. V Magazine (March)
• Collins, Gina Cavallo. “Video Identity Issues.” Java Magazine (January): 16.
• Dailey, Meghan. “Family – The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art.” ArtForum (October): 157.
• Donohue, Piper. “Boogie Down” Honey.” (January): 88.
• Erhardt, Miklos. “Fesusfono es Poteau- Mitan.” Balkon (October): 28-30.
• Girst, Thomas. “Ennui im Whitney.” die tageszeitung (March): 1.
• Gopnik, Blake. “As American as Jumbalaya” Washington Post (Art). March 7. p.1
• Griffin, Tim. “Bi American – The Whitney Biennial opens its doors.” Time Out New York (March 14-21)
• Grunitzky, Claude. “Meister Aller Klassen.” GQ International (September): 30-31.
• Jones, Amelia. “The Post Black Bomb.” Tema Celeste (March/April): 53-54.
• Knight, Christopher. “Art Review.” Los Angeles Times (April 1): F2.
• Matusow, Cathy. “Buddhism and B-Boys?” Houston Press (November 21)
• Nickas, Bob. “Multiple Voice.” ArtForum (May): 164.
• Patton, Phil. “Artists on the Verge.” Mercury Owner Magazine (Spring): 10-13.
• Plagens, Peter. “This Man Will Decide What Art Is.” Newsweek (March 4): 55.
• Rauterberg, Von Hanno. “Danke, Herr, fur Video.” Feuilleton (kunst).
• Robinson, Knox “The Show.” Fader (Winter): 48.
• Stevens, Mark. “Irony Lives.” New York Magazine (March): 55.
• Teicholz, Nina. “Private View: Lawrence Rinder.” Art & Auction (March): 36.

2001

• Budick, Ariella. “Post- Black and White.” Newsday (June)
• Aranda-Alvarado, Rocio. “Culture and Memory.” NKA (Review) (Spring/Summer): 123.
• Cook, Dara. “Players/Rookies 2001.” Vibe (V100) (September): 182.
• Cotter, Holland. “A Full Studio Museum Show Starts with 28 Young Artists and a Shoehorn.” New York Times (Review: Arts) (May 11): E36.
• Croal, Mashaka. “Freestylin at the Studio Museum in Harlem by Aida.” Africana.com (June 26)
• Dewan, Sheila K. “Twin Peaks Makes A Vertical World Their Own.” New York Times(Metro). (February 27)
• Erikson, Emily. “Color Coded.” ArtForum (Preview) (May): 52.
• Fowler Gabe. “Gang of Four.” New Art Examiner (November/December)
• Gioni, Massimiliano. “New York Cut Up.” Flash Art (July-September): 72.
• Girst, Thomas. “Power Enormous: The Art of Sanford Biggers” NY Arts April. p. 24
• Girst, Thomas. “Breakdance auf Leinwand.” die tageszeitung (kultur) (March): 16.
• Griffin, Tim. “Race Matters.” Time Out New York (Art) (May 24): 55-56.
• Maxwell, Bill. “Art Offers New Notions of Being Black.” St. Petersburg Times (Art) (June 20)
• Saltz, Jerry. “Post Black.” Village Voice (Art) (May 22): 51.
• Stevens, Mark. “The Studio Museum in Harlem “Freestyle”: More About Art than About Race.” New York Magazine (Art) (May 21): 84.
• Tate, Greg. “The Golden Age” Village Voice (Art) (May 22): 49
• Viveros- Faune, Christian. “Freestyle.” New York Press (Editorial) (June)
• Wilcox, Lauren. “Transformation and Tradition: Interview with Sanford Biggers.” Tout-Fait (Duchamp Studies On-line Journal)
• –. “Making the Case fir the ‘Post Black’ School of Art.” LA Times (September 29)
• –.”The New Masters.” Vibe (Gallery) (May): 138 & 142.
• –. “Freestyle” at Studio Museum.” Artnet.com (news) (April 13)

2000

• Berwick, Carly. “Power Spins” ARTnews (On the Edge). November. p. 224
• Cotter Holland. “Picking Out Distinctive Voices in a Pluralistic Chorus.” New York Times (Review: Arts) (August 18): E31.
• Cotter, Holland. “A Condensed International Melange.” New York Times (Weekend – Arts & Leisure) (May 6): E37.
• Jackson, Brian Keith. “Dharma on the Dancefloor.” Paper Magazine (Arts). September. p. 43
• Sirmans Franklin. “Artistically Speaking.” Soul Purpose.com (September 22)
• Sirmans, Franklin. “From the Studio: Artists in Residence 2000.” Time Out New York (Arts) (August 3-10): 55.
• –. “Hanne Tierney, Marian Griffiths and Five Myles.” NY Arts Magazine (April): 14-15.