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Group exhibition – The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY.
The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time May 14, 2021–April 10, 2022 Great Hall, 1st Floor The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time draws examples from our contemporary art collection to contemplate the profound disruption that occurred in 2020. Borrowing its title from an aeronautical term that refers to the pull of the current that is left in the wake of a large and powerful object, the exhibition examines the…
Find out more »Traveling Solo Exhibition – Codeswitch at California American Art Museum
July 28, 2021 - January 23, 2022 curated by: Andrea Andersson (Founding Director and Chief Curator, Rivers Institute) and Sergio Bessa (Curator, Bronx Museum) For more than two decades, Los Angeles native Sanford Biggers has been developing a singular body of work that is deeply informed by African American history and traditions. Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch, the first survey of quilt-based works by the New York-based interdisciplinary artist, features over fifty pieces that seamlessly weave together references to contemporary art, urban culture,…
Find out more »Group Exhibition – Parallel Lines: New Textile Masterworks Inspired by Geometry
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Find out more »Public Art Commission – Mural unveiling for Unframed: Sanford Biggers, Arts Council New Orleans and The Helis Foundation, New Orleans, LA.
NEW ORLEANS (October 7, 2021)— The Helis Foundation and Arts Council New Orleans continue their collaboration on downtown New Orleans’ growing mural project with the announcement of Unframed 3.0. As the third installment of Unframed presented by The Helis Foundation, a project of Arts Council New Orleans, local New Orleans artist Ayo Scott and internationally-renowned artist Sanford Biggers will create two prodigious murals for New Orleans’ signature collection of large-scale murals. Premiering in 2019, with the addition of these two…
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