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Glenn Ligon
Artist's Name: Glenn Ligon
Preferred medium: painting
birth year: 1960
Nationality: US
City: New York

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Glenn Ligon belongs to a generation of artists who came to prominence in the late 1980s on the strength of conceptually based paintings and phototext works. They investigate the social, linguistic, and political constructions of races, gender and sexuality. Informed by his experiences as an African American and as a gay man living in the United States, his art is a sustained meditation on issues of quotation, the presence of the past in the present, and the representation of self in relation to culture and history. It incorporates sources as diverse as James Baldwin's literary texts, Martin Luther King's speeches, and Richard Pryor's stand-up comedy routines. The development of ideas around artmaking is central to his aspirations as an artist, both as the conceptual underpinning for his art and as a critique of the society in which we live. Glenn Ligon (born in 1960) has exhibited in numerous institutions around the world. Lately, the exhibition Some Changes presented a large retrospective of his work, it travelled from the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery of Toronto in 2005, to the Houston Contemporary Arts Museum, the Andy Warhol Museum of Pittsburgh in 2006, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Colombus and the Mudam, Musée d'Art Moderne de Luxembourg, in 2007. (Yvon Lambert, New York)

important exhibitions from Glenn Ligon

Exhibition Location City Country Date
Glenn Ligon: AMERICA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA Los Angeles US 23.10.2011
Glenn Ligon: AMERICA Whitney Museum of American Art New York US 10.03.2011
Glenn Ligon: America The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Fort Worth US 12.02.2012
Glenn Ligon - some change Musée d´Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Mudam) Luxembourg LU 13.10.2007
American Exuberance Rubell Family Collection Miami US 30.11.2011
Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial 2011 International Istanbul Biennial Istanbul TR 17.09.2011
7. Gwangju Biennale 2008 Gwangju Biennale Gwangju KR 05.09.2008
Glenn Ligon: Some Changes The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery Vancouver CA 01.06.2007
Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night Whitney Museum of American Art New York US 02.03.2006
Glenn Ligon Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (CAMH) Houston US 14.01.2006

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Galleries representing
Glenn Ligon:

Baldwin Gallery
Barbara Krakow Gallery
D'Amelio Terras Gallery closed
Galerie Hans Mayer
Greg Kucera Gallery
Thomas Dane
Yvon Lambert
Yvon Lambert Paris

Collections representing
Glenn Ligon

Collection Lambert en Avignon
Ellipse Foundation
Fabric Workshop and Museum
Harvard Art Museum
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art
MIT List Visual Arts Center
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art
Orange County Museum of Art - OCMA
Palmer Museum of Art
Rubell Family Collection
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Broad Art Foundation
UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art
Walker Art Center
Whitney Museum of American Art