Oct 07, 2021 - Sale 2581

Sale 2581 - Lot 232

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
SANFORD BIGGERS (1970 - )
Untitled.

Archival digital print, 2017. 245x254 mm; 9 7/8x10 inches, full margins. Signed, dated, and numbered 20/30 in pencil, lower margin. From A Portfolio of 10 Limited Edition Prints in Honor of Victor L. Davson, published by Judith K. Brodsky, in honor of Davson, executive director of Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark.

Born in Los Angeles, Sanford Biggers lives and works in New York. He received a BA from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1998. He has received numerous prestigious awards including the Rome Prize in Visual Arts in 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in 2018, the Savannah College of Art & Design's deFINE Art Award in 2019 and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020.

Biggers' recent solo museum exhibition entitled Codeswitch, a survey of over 50 quilt-based artworks, debuted at The Bronx Museum of the Arts in September of 2021, and traveled to The California African American Museum, Los Angeles where it will be on exhibit through January, 2022. In the summer of 2021, he also exhibited Oracle, a monumental bronze Chimera sculpture along with a multimedia public art installation at Rockefeller Center. Biggers' work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Walker Art Center, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, among many others. (Bio courtesy of the artist's website.)