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Glenn Ligon    (American, 1960)



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Biography
1980 Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI
1982 B.A. Wesleyan University Middletown, CT
1985 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program New York, NY
Born Bronx, New York
Lives and works in New York

Exhibitions
2008 "The Wizard of Oz," CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, September 2- December 13, 2008
2007 Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, May 17 – September 3, 2007Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, May 17 – September 3, 2007
2007 Mario Testino: At Home, Yvon Lambert, New York, NY, July 12 – August 21, 2007
2007 What is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, NY, July 7 – September 17, 2007
2007 Substance & Surface, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, June 26 – August 31, 2007
2007 Glenn Ligon, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, October 27 – December 8, 2007
2007 Contemporary Art from the Harvard University Art Museums Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, June 23 – February 2008
2007 Repicturing the Past/Picturing the Present, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, June 15 – November 5, 2007
2007 Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, June 15 – October 22, 2007
2007 Art Unlimited, Regen Projecst at Art Basel 38, Switzerland, June 13 – 17, 2007
2007 Art in America, Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, ShanHai, China, May 1 – June 30, 2007
2007 Paper: from the collection of Emily Fisher Landau, curated By Bill Katz, The Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island, New York, NY, May 19 – December 2007
2007 Remix Identity and Abstraction, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Fall 2007
2007 Learn to Read [working title], curated by Vincent Honor้ and Maeve Polkinhorn, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom June 19 – September 2, 2007
2007 Novel Readings, curated by Florencia Malbrแn, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY, May 13 – 27, 2007
2007 Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, February 11 – May 20, 2007; cat.
2006 Glenn Ligon: Brilliant Corners, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England, October 11 – November 18, 2006
2006 We Had Everything Before Us, We Had Nothing Before Us, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France, February 4 – March 11, 2006 (solo)
2006 Glenn Ligon, Grossman Gallery at Lafayette College, Easton, PA, February 4 – March 4, 2006
2006 Defamation of Character, organized by Neville Wakefield, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, October 29, 2006, January 8, 2007
2006 Voodoo Macbeth, curated by David A. Bailey, De La Warr Pavilion, East Sussex, England, October 7, 2006 – January 22, 2007
2006 Yes Bruce Nauman, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY, July 7 – September 9, 2006
2006 Gifts go in one direction, curated by Alexander Nagel, apexart, New York, NY, July 5 – August 12, 2006
2006 SUBJECT, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, May 13 – August 14, 2006
2006 Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, March 7 – April 9, 2006
2006 Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, CA, January 21- April 22, 2006
2006 Skin Is a Language, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, January 12 – May 21, 2006
2005 A Brief History of Invisible Art, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, November 30, 2005 – February 21, 2006 Linkages and Themes in the African Diaspora, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, December 1, 2005 – March 12, 2006
2005 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, October 28, 2005 – January 15, 2006
2005 Glenn Ligon: Some Changes, The 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 27 – April 22, 2007; Belkin Art Galery, Vancouver, Canada, June 1 – August 19, 2007; Mudam – Foundation Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, October 12 – January 7, 2008; catalogue
2005 Collective Histories / Collective Memories: California Modern, Orange County Museum of Modern Art, Newport Beach, CA, February 9, 2005 – September 26, 2006
2005 Drawing from the Modern, 1975 - 2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, September 14, 2005 – January 9, 2006
2005 ROMANCE (a novel), curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal, September 14 – October 15, 2005; cat.
2005 A Thousand Words, Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas, July 9 – August 27, 2005
2005 Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, May 18 – September 5, 2005
2005 Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver, January 22 – April 17, 2005
2004 Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, curated by Nancy Spector
2003 - 2004 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
2003 - 2004 Supernova, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2003 Going There, DAmelio Terras, New York, NY
2003 Annotations, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY, online project
2003 Fast Forward: Twenty Years of White Rooms, White Columns, New York, NY (catalogue)
2003 Stranger in the Village, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, NY
2003 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
2002 LIFE DEATH LOVE HATE PLEASURE PAIN: Selected works from the MCA Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2002 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, OH.
2002 Recent Acquisitions, Fonds R้gional dนArt Contemporain, Reims, France
2002 Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany, curated by Okwui Enwezor
2002 Glenn Ligon, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2001 Colored, DนAmelio Terras, New York
2001 Portraits and Not-Portraits, Kunstverein Munich, Germany
2001 Stranger, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (catalogue)
2000 Coloring: New Work, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue)
2000 Currents 81, St. Louis Art Museum St. Louis, MO
2000 Points of Reference, Fredrick Hayes, , Addison Gallery of American Art Andover, MA
2000 Good Business is the Best Art, , The Bronx Museum of Art New York, NY
1999 The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000, , Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
1999 Other Narratives: Fifteen Years, , Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
1999 Contemporary Narratives in American Prints, , Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion Stamford, CT
1998 N๚cleo Historico, , XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo Sao Paulo, Brazil
1998 Glenn Ligon: Unbecoming, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA
1998 Glenn Ligon, ArtPace San Antonio, TX
1997 Glenn Ligon: Day of Absence, Ezra and Cecile Zikha Gallery Middletown, CT
1997 Coming of Age, , White Columns New York, NY
1997 Sunny Days/Critical Times, , The Bohen Foundation New York, NY
1996 The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Drawings by Glenn Ligon, Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn, NY
1995 Photos and Notes, Max Protetch Gallery New York, NY
1995 Skin Tight, MIT List Visual Arts Center Cambridge, MA
1995 In The Flesh, Aldrich Museum of American Art Ridgefield, CT
1995 Fag-o-Sites, Gallery 400 Chicago, IL
1994 Duchamp's Leg, Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN
1994 New Paintings, Max Protetch Gallery New York, NY
1994 Project Room, Ruth Blum Gallery Santa Monica, CA
1993 White, Max Protetch Gallery New York, NY
1993 Good Mirrors Are Not Cheap, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris New York, NY
1992 Glenn Ligon, Max Protetch Gallery New York, NY
1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Musuem of American Art New York, NY
1985 Open Studio, Whitney Musuem Independant Study Program New York, NY

Literature
2001 Firstenberg, Lauri. 'Neo-Archival and Textual Strategies: An Interview with Glenn Ligon.' Art Journal Spring 2001: 42 - 47.
2001 Koestenbaum, Wayne. 'Color Me Glenn.' Coloring. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Walker Art Center, 2001.
1999 English, Darby. 'Question Marks and Futures Already Alive: Glenn Ligon and Kara Walker, Together for the First Time.' New York: Brent Sikkema Gallery. December, 1999.
1998 Golden, Thelma. 'Everynight.' Unbecoming. Philadelphia: Institute of Contempory Art, 1998.
1998 Cotter, Holland. 'Stories About Race, Politics, and Himself.' New York Times December 2, 1998. 48-49.
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