Sanford Biggers: Drift
May 17–September 13, 2026
Parrish Art Museum
279 Montauk Highway
Water Mill, NY 11976
Sanford Biggers: Drift presents a major solo museum exhibition by the acclaimed artist on the East End of Long Island, featuring new textile works, prints, sculptures and site-responsive installations. Fascinated by the ways that materials and symbols become charged with spiritual, cultural, and personal significance, Biggers (2008 Creative Capital Awardee) (b. 1970, Los Angeles, CA) draws on a diverse range of influences, ranging from Buddhism and Los Angeles graffiti culture to Gee’s Bend quilts and his own collection of African sculpture. Working in painting, installation, sculpture, video, and performance, Biggers describes his practice as emerging from an aggregate process of “transposing, combining, and juxtaposing ideas, forms, and genres that challenge traditional historiography.”
Sanford Biggers
The Cartographer’s Conundrum
Sanford Biggers creates artworks that intentionally complicates issues such as hip hop, Buddhism, politics, identity and art history to offer new perspectives for established symbols.