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Glenn Ligon
Selected Biography
Born Bronx, New York
Lives and works in New York
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, 1985
B.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1982
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1980
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009-2010
Glenn Ligon: Off BookRegen Projects, Los Angeles
2009
Nobody and Other SongsThomas Dane Gallery, London
2008
Figure / Paysage / MarineYvon Lambert, Paris
Love and Theft
Power House Memphis, Memphis
2007
Belkin Gallery, Vancouver
Regen Projects, LA
Glenn Ligon: Some Changes
MUDAM, Luxembourg
2006
Glenn Ligon, Grossman Gallery at Lafayette CollegeEaston, PA
We Had Everything Before Us We Had Nothing Before Us
Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France
Brilliant Corners
Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
2005
Glenn Ligon: Some ChangesThe Power Plant, Toronto, Canada, June 25 - September 5, 2005; travels to the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, January 14 - April 2, 2006; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, September 30 - December 31, 2006; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, January
2004
Text Paintings: 1990 - 2004Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (cat.)
2003
Going ThereDAmelio Terras, New York, NY
Annotations
Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY, online project
2002
Glenn LigonAnthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2001
Portraits and Not-PortraitsKunstverein Munich, Germany
Currents 81
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (brochure)
Coloring: New Work
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (cat.)
Colored
DAmelio Terras, New York
Stranger
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (cat.) 2000
2000
Currents 81St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
Artist-in-Residendence: Glenn Ligon
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (brochure)
1998
Glenn LigonArtPace, San Antonio, TX (brochure)
Glenn Ligon: Unbecoming
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (cat.)
Unbecoming
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
1997
Glenn Ligon: Day of AbsenceEzra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (brochure)
1996
Glenn Ligon: New WorkSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (brochure)
The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Drawings by Glenn Ligon
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (brochure)
1995
Photos and NotesMax Protetch Gallery, New York, Skin Tight, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Glenn Ligon
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (brochure)
1994
Project RoomRuth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993
Glenn Ligon: to DisembarkHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Traveled: Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson, NC; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS; Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, MI (brochure)
Good Mirrors Are Not Cheap
Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York. Traveled: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
White
Max Protetch Gallery, New York 1993
1992
Glenn LigonMax Protetch Gallery, New York
Glenn Ligon/Matrix 120
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. (brochure)
1991
Glenn Ligon, White ColumnsNew York, Project Room, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Afro Modern. Journeys through the Black AtlanticTate Liverpool, Liverpool
Self-Consciousness
Veneklasen / Werner, Berlin
Afro Modern. Journeys through the Black Atlantic
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago
2007
Learn to ReadTate Modern, London
2006
Dark PlacesSanta Monica Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, CA
Skin Is a Language
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2005
Getting EmotionalInstitute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
A Thousand Words
Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver
Collective Histories / Collective Memories: California Modern
Orange County Museum of Modern Art, Newport Beach, CA
ROMANCE (a novel), curated by Adriano Pedrosa
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Linkages and Themes in the African Diaspora
Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
A Brief History of Invisible Art
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Drawing from the Modern, 1975 - 2005
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern Contemporary Works on Paper, conceived by Barbaralee Diamonstein- Spielvogel
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, curated by Nancy Spector
Love/Hate, From Magritte to Cattelan: Masterpieces from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Villa Manin Centro dArte Contemporanea, Codroipo (Udine), Italy, curated by Francesco Bonami
Great White
Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, curated by Joanna Montoya
Open House
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Robert Colescott & Glenn Ligon from the Logan Collection
Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, CO, curated by Shannen Hill
Experiments with Truth
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, guest curator Mark Nash
2003
On the Wall: Wallpaper and TableauThe Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
DL: The
Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos, Bronx, NY
The Paper Sculpture Show
Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, organized by ICI; travels to Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, and the Orange Count
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self
International Center of Photography, New York, NY, curated by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis; travels to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Family Ties
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, curated by Trevor Fairbrother
Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude (Toward and understanding of trans- generational dialogue as a gift economy)
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, curated by Bill Arning
Stranger in the Village
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, NY
Fast Forward: Twenty Years of White Rooms
White Columns, New York, NY (cat.)
The Disembodied Spirit
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, curated by Alison Ferris (cat.)
Supernova
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Todays Man
Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, curated by JohnConnelly
The Alumni Show
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, curated by Nina Felshin (cat.)
An American Legacy: Art from the Studio Museum
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
American Art Today: Faces & Figures
The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
2002
Pushing Aesthetic Boundaries: Contemporary PrintsGallery M, New York
Moving Pictures
Guggenheim Museum, New York Art Downtown, Various Locations, New York
A New York Renaissance: Masterworks from the Collection of the Whitney Museum
Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Tempo
MoMA QNS, Long Island City, NY, curated by Paolo Herkenhoff
Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. Collection: Fifty Years of Supporting the New
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
People See Paintings
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Recent Acquisitions
Fonds Régional dArt Contemporain, Reims, France
Documenta XI
Kassel, Germany, curated by Okwui Enwezor
LIFE DEATH LOVE HATE PLEASURE PAIN: Selected works from the MCA Permanent Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Structures of Difference
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, curated by Nicholas Baume
Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Krannert Art Museum
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, curated by Joself Helfenstein: traveled to Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
Stranger in the Village
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
New York, New Work, Now!
The Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH, curated by Nina Felshin
2001
Song PoemsCohan Leslie and Browne, New York, produced by Stephen Hull
Kinds of Drawing
Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (cat.)
Monochrome/Monochrome?
Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
Everybody Now: the crowd in contemporary art
Hunter College
Subject: Plural, Crowds in Contemporary Art
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (cat.)
Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel
Victoria Miro, London
Pollock to Today: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Take Two/Reprise
Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada (cat.)
2000
AutoWerkeDeichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (cat.)
Strength and Diversity: A Celebration of African American Artists
Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Cambridge, MA
Refresh: the Art of the Screen Saver
Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, Stanford University, CA
Points of Reference: Frederick Hayes, Glenn Ligon, Gary Simmons and Kara Walker
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Dream Machines
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK; Camden Arts Centre, London (cat.)
Looking Forward, Looking Black
Ezra and Cecile Zilka Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Drawings & Photographs
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
3rd Kwangju Biennale: Man + Space
Kwangju, South Korea
Open Ends: White Spectrum
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Marriage of Reason and Squalor
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Good Business Is the Best Art
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (cat.)
1999
The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
Spaced Out
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Kara Walker/Glenn Ligon
Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York
Negotiating Small Truths
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, TX
Other Narratives: Fifteen Years
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (cat.)
Crosscurrents: New Art from MoMA
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (cat.)
Life Cycles
Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Contemporary Narratives in American Prints
Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
1998
Heart, Mind, Body, SoulWhitney Museum of American Art, New York
Núcleo Historico, XXIV Bienal de São Paulo
Brazil, curated by Paulo Herkenhoff.100 Years of Sculpture: From Pedestal to Social, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Histories (Re)Membered: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Bronx Museum
Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York
Cut on the Bias: Social Projects of the 90s from the Permanent Collection:
The Fabric Workshop and Museum,Philadelphia, PA
100 Years of Sculpture: From pedestal to Social
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan collection
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Exterminating Angel
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Hindsight: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Exterminating Angel
Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris Miami Art Project, Miami, FL
1997
Coming of Age, White Columns, New York Identity Crisis: Self Portraiture at the End of the CenturyMilwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI. Traveled: Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (cat.)
Un Bel Ete
Casino Luxembourg
Rhapsodies in Black
Hayward Gallery, The South Bank Centre, London (cat.) Traveled: Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK; The Mead Gallery, Coventry, UK; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
La Biennale di Venezia, XLVII Esposizione Internationale dArte,
Venice, Italy (cat.)
Kinds of Abstract
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
A Decade in Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Sunny Days/Critical Times
The Bohen Foundation, New York
1996
Prospect '96Frankfurt Kunstverein, Germany (cat.)
Screen
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (video cat.)
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980-1995
Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.)
An American Story
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Inner Eye: Art Beyond the Visible
Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester, England. Traveled: Museum and ArtGallery, Brighton, England; Glynn Vivan Art Gallery, Swansea, England; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, England. (cat.)
Inclusion/Exclusion: Art in the Age of Post-Colonialism and Global Migration
Steirischer Herbst 96, Graz, Austria (cat.)
Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art
National Gallery, Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece. Traveled: Museu dArt Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (cat.)
Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH. Traveled: New York School of Design, New York; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
10th Biennale of Sydney: Jurassic Technologies Revenant
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (cat.)
The Mediated Object: Selections from the Eli Broad Collection
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA. Traveled: Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
Festival Exit
Maison des Arts de la Culture, Paris-Creteil, France
Hotter Than July
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles a/drift, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (cat.)
Burning Issues: Contemporary African-American Art
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL (brochure)
1995
Face Forward: Self Portraiture in Contemporary ArtJohn Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
25 Americans: Painting in the 90s
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (cat.)
Word for Word
Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
fag-o-sites
Gallery 400, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
XI Mostra da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba/Mostra America
Curitiba, Brazil (cat.)
Configura 2: Dialog de Kulturen
Erfurt, Germany (cat.)
Boxer
Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall, UK (cat.)
Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire
Institute of Contemporary Art, London (cat.)
Glenn Ligon, Gary Simmons
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, and Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Pervert
University Museum, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA (cat.)
In the Flesh
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (cat.)
1994
The Magic Magic BookWhitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
Equal Rights and Justice
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Traveled: National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (cat.)
Dark oClock
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Traveled: Plug In, Inc., Video Pool, Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (cat.)
Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Traveled: Decker Galleries, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD;Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Dont Look Now
Thread Waxing Space, New York (cat.)
Oliver Herring, Byron Kim, Glenn Ligon
Galerie Gilles Peyroulet, Paris
New Paintings
Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled: The UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (cat.)
Duchamps Leg
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Traveled: Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL (brochure)
Drama
Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Stories
Max Protetch Gallery, New York
The Label Show: Contemporary Art and the Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (brochure)
1993
Contemporary ArtSt. Louis, MO
Glenn Ligon/Byron Kim
A/C Project Room, New York
The Return of the 'Cadavre Exquis
The Drawing Center, NewYork. Traveled: Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington D.C.; Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; American Center, Paris (cat.)
Myths and Legends As Told and Retold
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
42nd Art Street Project
Times Square, New York
Drawing the Line Against AIDS
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (cat.)
Surfaces: Small Scale Paintings in Black and White
Schmidt
Prints and Issues
Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany
Extravagant
Russisches, Kulturzentrum, Berlin, Germany
Markets of Resistance
White Columns, New York
1993 Biennial Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea (cat.) Everpresent Moment, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
1992
Dream Singers, Story Tellers: An African American Presencecoorganized by Fukui City Japan, and New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ. Traveled: Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima City, and Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City, Japan (cat.)
Mistaken Identities
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara. Traveled: Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; Neues Museum Weserburg Bremenim Forum Langenstrasse, Bremen, Germany; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, D
Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.)
Update ' 92
White Columns, New York
Slow Art: Painting in New York
P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA. Traveled: Santa Monica Museum of Art, SantaMonica, CA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (cat.)
All Words Suck
Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
A New American Flag
Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art
Hayward Gallery, The South Bank Centre, London, England. Traveled: Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (cat.)
Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Traveled: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; The Valentine, The Museum of Life and History of Richmond, VA; Anacostia Museum, Washington D.C.; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA; Center for the Arts, Yerb
1991
New WorkP.S. 122, New York
Interrogating Identity
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York. Traveled: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Madison Art Center, WI; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH (cat.)
1991 Biennial Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
Positions of Authority
Art in General, New York
Color Theory
Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, State University of New York at Old Westbury, Old Westbury, NY
We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming
White Columns, New York
Text Out of Context
SoHo Center, New York
1990
Art of ResistanceEl Bohio, New York
Public Mirror, Art against Racism
The Clocktower Gallery, New York
Rutgers National '90: Works on Paper, Stedman Art Gallery
Camden, NJ (brochure)
Spent: Currency, Security and Art on Deposit
The New Museum of Contemporary Art at Marine Midland Bank, New York
Works on Paper
Selena Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York
1989
Selections 46The Drawing Center, New York
1985
Open StudioWhitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York
1984
Artists in the MarketplaceBronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Collections
Saint Louis Art Museum
Saint Louis
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York
FRAC-Champagne-Ardenne
Reims
The Fabric Workshop and Museum
Philadelphia
The Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York
MIT List Visual Arts Center
Cambridge, MA
Ellipse Foundation
Alcoitão, Portugal
The Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago
Blanton Museum of Art
Austin
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art
New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art- SFMOMA
San Francisco
Orange County Museum of Art
Newport Beach
UMMA-The University of Michigan Museum of Art
Ann Arbor
Broad Contemporary Art Museum