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Sanford Biggers: Drift

May 17–September 13, 2026

Parrish Art Museum
279 Montauk Highway
Water Mill, NY 11976

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Sanford Biggers. Kind Of Real, 2024, antique quilt and mixed media, 81 x 81 x 1 1/4 in. Courtesy of Sanford Biggers and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Photo: Charles Benton.

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.”

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Installation view of Sanford Biggers: Drift at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (May 17–September 13, 2026). Photo: Jenny Gorman.
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Sanford Biggers (American, b. 1970). Dagu, 2016, assorted fabrics, spray paint, acrylic on antique quilts, 50 x 151.5 x 5 in. Museum of Arts and Design, New York; purchase with funds provided by the Collections Committee, 2018; 2018.5. Photo: Jenna Bascom, 2021
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Installation view of Sanford Biggers: Drift at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (May 17–September 13, 2026). Photo: Jenny Gorman.

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