SANFORD BIGGERS

SANFORD BIGGERS (co-scenic designer) was raised in Los Angeles and currently lives and works in New York City. He is the recipient of numerous awards. In 2021, Biggers received the 26th Heinz Award for the Arts and Savannah Col­lege of Art & Design’s deFINE Art Award and was appointed the 2021–22 Dr Martin Lu­ther King, Jr Visiting Professor and Scholar in the MIT Department of Architec­ture, In 2020, Biggers was awarded a prestigious Gug­genheim Fellowship and appointed Board President at Sculpture Center; in 2019, he was inducted into the New York Foundation for the Arts Hall of Fame; in 2018, he received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award; and in 2017, he was presented the Rome Prize in Visual Arts. On May 5, 2021, he debuted Oracle, a monumental bronze Chimera sculpture commissioned by Art Production Fund, along with a multimedia public art exhibition throughout Rockefeller Center.