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Born 1960 in Bronx, NY; Lives and works in New York, NY
Education
1985
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York
1982
B.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
1980
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
One-person Exhibitions
2003
Going There, D'Amelio Terras, New York
Annotations, Dia Center for the Arts, New York(online project)
2002
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
2001
Everybody Now, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York
Stranger, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Portraits and Not Portraits, Kunstverein Munich
Colored, D'Amelio Terras, New York
2000
Currents 81, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
Coloring: New Work, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1998
Glenn Ligon: Unbecoming, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
ArtPace, San Antonio
1997
Day of Absence, Erza and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
1996
The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Drawings by Glenn Ligon, Brooklyn Museum of Art
Glenn Ligon: New Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1995
Photos and Notes, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Skin Tight, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
1994
Project Room, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica
1993
White, Max Protech Gallery, New York
Glenn Ligon: to Disembark, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Traveled to: Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson, NC; Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS; Detroit Institute of the Arts
Good Mirrors Are Not Cheap, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1992
Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Matrix 120, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hatford, CT
1991
White Columns, New York
Project Room, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2004
Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2003
Supernova: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Austin Museum of Art
Fast Forward: Twenty Years of White Rooms, White Columns, New York
Crimes and Misdemeanors, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati
Stranger in the Village, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, organized by Museum of Modern Art, New York
Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitute, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
2002
LIFE DEATH LOVE HATE PLEASURE PAIN: Selected Works from the MCA Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Cincinnati Art Museum
Documenta XI, various locations, Kassel, Germany
People See Paintings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Tempo, Museum of Modern Art at Queens
A New York Renaissance: Masterworks from the Collection of the Whitney Museum, Palazzo Realo, Milan
2001
Everybody Now: The Crowd in Contemporary Art, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York
Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2000
The Marriage of Reason and Squalor, Museum of Modern Art
3rd Kwangju Biennale: Man + Space, Kwangju, South Korea
1999
The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art
Glenn Ligon and Kara Walker, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York
1998
XXIV Bienal de Sao Paula: Nucleo Historico: Antropofagia e Historia de Canibalismos, Brazil
100 Years of Sculpture: From the Pedestal to the Pixel, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1997
La Biennale di Venezia, XLVII Esposizione Internazionale D'Arte
Identity Crisis: Self Portraitureat the End of the Century, Milwaukee Art Museum.
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
Dark O'Clock, Museo de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Plug In Inc., Winnipeg, Manitoba
1995
Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Glenn Ligon, Gary Simmons, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia and Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
1994
Duchamp's Leg, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art
1993
Glenn Ligon/Byron Kim, A/C Project Room, New York
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art
1992
Malcom X: Man, Ideal, Icon, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Mistaken Identities, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
1991
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art
Interrogating Identity, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University
AWARDS
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 - 1990
P.S. 1 National Studio Program, The Clocktower, New York
1989
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship, Drawing
1982
National Endowment for the Arts, Curatorial Internship, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
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