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
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008
Sanford Biggers, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY
Cosmic Conundrum, The Kitchen, 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)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Hidden Cities, curated by Christian Marclay, Stephen Vittielo and Perrgrine Arts. Philadelphia, PA
2008
American/Balkan-ization. (multiple venues/traveling). Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Turkey, US
Shuffle. Schloss Solitude. Stuttgart, Germany
2007
Illuminations, 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
HooDoo. The Amistad Center for Arts and Culture. Hartford, CT
Black Light/White Noise. Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
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
The Black Moving Cube: Black Figuration & The Moving Image. The Tate Britain, London, UK (traveling)
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
The Here and Now, The Renassaince Society, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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
Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Kuti, The New Museum, New York, NY
Shuffling the Deck, Princeton Museum of Art, Princeton, NJ
The Commodification of Buddhism, Bronx Museum, New York, NY
Black Belt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2002
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
Family, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (catalogue)
2001
One Planet Under a Groove, Bronx Museum, New York, NY (traveling/catlogue)
Zoning, The Project, New York, NY
Freestyle, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (catalogue)
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 (traveling)
2000
Full Service, Kenny Schachter, New York, NY
Commissions
2009
New York Percent for the Arts. Eagle Academy, New York, NY
2008
Cosmic Conundrum. The Kitchen, New York, NY
2007
The Somethin’ Suite. Performa 07, New York, NY
Performances
2008
Cosmic Conundrum, The Kitchen, New York, NY
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
Curatorial
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
Selected Awards and Residencies
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
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