Glenn Ligon

Biography

Lives and works in New York, NY

Education

1985

Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY

1982

B.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

1980

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Grants and Awards

2003

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY

2001

DAAD, Berlin, Germany

1998

ArtPace International Artists-in-Residence Program, San Antonio, TX

1997

Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant

1994

Residency, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study Center, Bellagio, Italy

1991

National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship, Painting

1990

Art Matters, Inc. Fellowship

Dewar's Young Artist's Recognition Award

1989

P.S. 1 National Studio Program, The Clocktower, NY

1989

National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship, Drawing

1982

National Endowment for the Arts, Curatorial Internship, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY

Solo Exhibitions

2004

Text Paintings: 1990-2004, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2003

Going There, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

Annotations, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY (online project)

2002

Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

2001

Everybody Now, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY

Stranger, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Portraits and Not Portraits, Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany

Colored, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY

2000

Currents 81, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

Coloring: New Work, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

1998

Glenn Ligon: Unbecoming, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA

Glenn Ligon, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX

1997

Glenn Ligon: Day of Absence, Erza and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for Arts, Weseyan University, Middletown, CT

1996

The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Drawings by Glenn Ligon, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

Glenn Ligon: New Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1995

Photos and Notes, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY

Skin Tight, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

Glenn Ligon, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IO

1994

Project Room, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1993

White, Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY

Glenn Ligon: to Disembark, Hirshhorn 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

Good Mirrors Are Not Cheap, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY. Traveled: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

1992

Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY

Glenn Ligon/Matrix 120, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hatford, CT

1991

White Columns, New York, NY

Project Room, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2004

Love/Hate, From Magritte to Cattelan: Masterpieces from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo (Udine), Italy

Great White, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Robert Colescott & Glenn Ligon from the Logan Collection, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, CO

2003

Supernova: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX

Fast Forward: Twenty Years of White Rooms, White Columns, New York, NY

Crimes and Misdemeanors, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

Stranger in the Village, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitute, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA

2002

LIFE DEATH LOVE HATE PLEASURE PAIN: Selected Works from the MCA Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

Documenta XI, various locations, Kassel, Germany

People See Paintings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Tempo, MoMA QNS, Queens, NY

A New York Renaissance: Masterworks from the Collection of the Whitney Museum, Palazzo Realo, Milan, Italy

2001

Everybody Now: The Crowd in Contemporary Art, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England

2000

The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

3rd Kwangju Biennale: Man + Space, Kwangju, South Korea

1999

The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Glenn Ligon and Kara Walker, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY

1998

XXIV Bienal de Sao Paula: Nucleo Historico: Antropofagia e Historia de Canibalismos, Sao Paulo, Brazil

100 Years of Sculpture: From the Pedestal to the Pixel, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

1997

La Biennale di Venezia, XLVII Esposizione Internazionale D'Arte, Venice, Italy

Identity Crisis: Self Portraitureat the End of the Century, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI. Traveled.

1996

Inclusion/Exclusion: Art in the Age of Post-Colonialism and Global Migration, Steirischer Herbst 96, Graz, Austria

10th Biennale of Sydney: Jurassic Technologies Revenant, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Dark O'Clock, Museo de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Plug In Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

1995

Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

Glenn Ligon, Gary Simmons, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, and Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

1994

Duchamp's Leg, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Traveled

Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1993

Glenn Ligon/Byron Kim, A/C Project Room, New York, NY

Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1992

Malcom X: Man, Ideal, Icon, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Mistaken Identities, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Interrogating Identity, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, NY