Biggers employs various visual forms in his exploration of found objects to contemplate methods of transformation and to confront the legacy of slavery and the historical treatment of Black bodies in the United States. Biggers’s experiences visiting fabric shops in immigrant communities in Los Angeles with his mother as a young boy and teaching English, and later, completing a 2003 residency in Japan largely informed his later artistic practices. His exposure to cultures outside of the United States allowed him to envision and execute a conceptual practice that brings together disparate cultures and contexts.

Biggers received a BA from Morehouse College and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He was a 1999–2000 Studio Museum artist in residence and was featured in the Museum’s groundbreaking exhibition Freestyle (2001).