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Sanford Biggers creates multi-disciplinary artworks that integrate film/video installation, sculpture, music, and performance. Influenced by his experiences living throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan, and by Buddhism, hip-hop, and history, Biggers' work is known for its dynamic visuals and conceptual eloquence. His installations, videos, and performances have appeared in venues worldwide including the Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London, the Whitney Museum and Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, as well as institutions in China, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Poland, and Russia He is the recipient of awards and grants from the Creative Capital Foundation, New York Percent for the Arts, Lambent Fellowship in the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and is the first visual artist to win the Greenfield. Biggers is presently an assistant professor at Columbia University's Department of Visual Arts, affiliate faculty of the Sculpture and Expanded Media program at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a recent visiting scholar at Harvard University's VES Department.