John Sanborn has been called “a key member of the second wave of American video artists that included Bill Viola, Gary Hill, Dara Birnbaum and Tony Oursler” by Dr. Peter Weibel, director of the ZKM. Sanborn’s career spans the early days of experimental video art in the 1970s through the heyday of 80’s MTV music/videos and 90’s interactive art to the digital media art of today.

Sanborn’s works have been exhibited at contemporary art venues around the world, including the Whitney Museum; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Museum of Qatar, Doha; the Prado, Madrid; ZKM, Karlsruhe; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Videoformes, France, the Tate Modern, London; and the Seibu Museum, Tokyo.

Sanborn’s works are in the permanent collections of MoMA, NY; the Tate, London; ZKM, Karlsruhe; The Metropolitan Museum, NY; The Kunsthalle Praha, Prague; LACE, Los Angeles; The Walker Arts Center; Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina; INVIDEO – A.I.A.C.E. Milano, Milan, Italy; Minneapolis; New York University, New York, NY; MIT List Visual ArtsCenter, Cambridge; The Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany; The Pompidou Center, Paris; Fundació “la Caxia”, Barcelona, Spain; and the Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasborug, France.