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Glenn Ligon is a contemporary American visual artist who was born in 1960. Glenn Ligon has had numerous gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago and at the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Numerous works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'Black Like Me #1' sold at Sotheby's New York 'Contemporary Art Evening Auction' in 2012 for $1,314,500. There have been Numerous articles about Glenn Ligon, including 'Fall arts picks: Art' written by Christopher Knight for Los Angeles Times in 2011.
 
 
 

Auction Results

Works at auction, latest auction results, sales and prices of Glenn Ligon from auction houses worldwide.

Glenn Ligon, Study for Negro Sunshine #78
Oil stick and...
Study for Negro Sunshine #78
Lot 229
Phillips New York, Upper East Side
Sold for: 47,500 USD
Glenn Ligon, Malcolm X, Sun, Frederick Douglass, Boy with Bubbles #2
Flashé paint and...
Malcolm X, Sun, Frederick Douglass, Boy with...
Lot 230
Phillips New York, Upper East Side
Sold for: 37,500 USD
Glenn Ligon, Stranger Drawing #7
coal dust, oil,...
Stranger Drawing #7
Lot 14
Phillips New York, Upper East Side
Sold for: 509,000 USD
Glenn Ligon, Study for BLACK LIKE ME #2
oil and gesso on...
Study for BLACK LIKE ME #2
Lot 440
Christie's New York
Sold for: 543,750 USD
 

Selected Events

Exhibitions, openings, art fairs, auctions and other events for Glenn Ligon around the world.

Each One As She May - Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania
USA / Philadelphia / University City : Exhibition
Institute of Contemporary Art at the...
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Latest News & Articles

In The Press: Latest news, articles and reviews about Glenn Ligon from leading publications worldwide.

Blues for Smoke
Art in America / Robert Atkins
With the recent “Pacific Standard Time” program of...
On the Blues Train
City Arts / Valerie Gladstone
It must have been incredibly daunting to put together...
Alchemy of Inspiration I Sex, Skater Kids, and Gap Plaid: NYC in 1993
Art:21 / Jessica Lott
When the film Kids, about NYC’s skateboard culture, came...
10 Captivating Exhibitions Opening this Week
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GLENN LIGON

BIOGRAPHY

Born Bronx, New York
Lives and works in New York

EDUCATION

1985

Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York

1982

B.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

1980

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI


AWARDS

2006

Skowhegan Medal for Painting, New York, NY

Academy Awards in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New

York, NY

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. FellowshipDewar’s Young Artist’s Recognition Award

1989/90

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


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007

Glenn Ligon, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, October 27 – December

8, 2007


2006

Glenn Ligon: Brilliant Corners, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England,

October 11 – November 18, 2006

We Had Everything Before Us, We Had Nothing Before Us, Yvon

Lambert, Paris, France, February 4 – March 11, 2006

Glenn Ligon, Grossman Gallery at Lafayette College, Easton, PA,

February 4 – March 4, 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

2004

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

September 11- October 16, 2004 (catalogue)

2003

Going There, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY, November 8 –

December 23, 2003

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


2002

Glenn Ligon, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA


2001

Colored, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY, May 5 – June 15, 2001

Portraits and Not-Portraits, Kunstverein Munich, Germany

Stranger, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (catalogue)


2000

Artist-in-Residendence: Glenn Ligon, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,

MN (brochure)

Coloring: New Work, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue)

Currents 81, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (brochure)


1998

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

Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)

Glenn Ligon, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX (brochure)


1997

Glenn Ligon: Day of Absence, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for

Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (brochure)


1996

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

Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (brochure) Glenn Ligon: New

Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (brochure)


1995

Photos and Notes, Max 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 Room, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA


1993

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 (brochure)

White, Max Protetch Gallery, New York 1993

Good Mirrors Are Not Cheap, Whitney Museum of American Art at

Phillip Morris, New York. Traveled: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,

MA


1992

Glenn Ligon, Max Protech Gallery, New York Glenn Ligon/Matrix 120,

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT. (brochure)


1991

Glenn Ligon, White Columns, New York, Project Room, Jack Tilton

Gallery, New York


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007

Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, May 17

– September 3, 2007

Mario Testino: At Home, Yvon Lambert, New York, NY, July 12 – August

21, 2007

What is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of

Modern Art, NY, July 7 – September 17, 2007

Substance & Surface, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, June 26 –

August 31, 2007

Contemporary Art from the Harvard University Art Museums Collections,

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard, Cambridge, MA, June 23 – February

2008

Repicturing the Past/Picturing the Present, Museum of Modern Art, New

York, NY, June 15 – November 5, 2007

Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, June

15 – October 22, 2007

Art Unlimited, Regen Projecst at Art Basel 38, Switzerland, June 13 – 17,

2007

Art in America, Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, ShanHai, China, May

1 – June 30, 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

Remix Identity and Abstraction, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY,

Fall 2007

Learn to Read [working title], curated by Vincent Honoré and Maeve

Polkinhorn, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom June 19 –

September 2, 2007

Novel Readings, curated by Florencia Malbrán, Bard Center for Curatorial

Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY, May 13 – 27,

2007

Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art,

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, February 11 – May 20,

2007; cat.


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

Voodoo Macbeth, curated by David A. Bailey, De La Warr Pavilion, East

Sussex, England, October 7, 2006 – January 22, 2007

Yes Bruce Nauman, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY, July 7 – September

9, 2006

Gifts go in one direction, curated by Alexander Nagel, apexart, New York,

NY, July 5 – August 12, 2006

SUBJECT, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut, May 13 –

August 14, 2006

Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of

Arts and Letters, New York, NY, March 7 – April 9, 2006

Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, CA,

January 21- April 22, 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

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

Collective Histories / Collective Memories: California Modern,

Orange County Museum of Modern Art, Newport Beach, CA,

February 9, 2005 – September 26, 2006

Drawing from the Modern, 1975 - 2005, Museum of Modern Art, New

York, NY, September 14, 2005 – January 9, 2006

ROMANCE (a novel), curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Cristina Guerra

Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal, September 14 – October 15,

2005; cat.

A Thousand Words, Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas, July 9 – August 27,

2005

Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts,

May 18 – September 5, 2005

Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary

Arts Museum, Houston, organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver,

January 22 – April 17, 2005


2004

Experiments with Truth, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia,

guest curator Mark Nash, December 3 – March 12 2005

Love/Hate, From Magritte to Cattelan: Masterpieces from the Museumof

Contemporary Art, Chicago, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte

Contemporanea, Codroipo (Udine), Italy, curated by

FrancescoBonami

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

Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Solomon R. Guggenheim

Museum, New York, NY, curated by Nancy Spector

Robert Colescott & Glenn Ligon from the Logan Collection, Victoria H.

Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, CO, curated

byShannen Hill


2003

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

Supernova, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

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

York,NY (catalogue)

Today’s Man, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, curated by

JohnConnelly

The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, curated

byAlison Ferris (catalogue)

The Alumni Show, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan

University,Middletown, CT, curated by Nina Felshin (catalogue)

Crimes and Misdemeanors, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

DL: The “Down Low” in Contemporary Art, Longwood Art

Gallery atHostos, Bronx, NY

The Paper Sculpture Show, SculptureCenter, 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 County Museum of

Art,Newport Beach, CA

An American Legacy: Art from the Studio Museum, The Parrish

ArtMuseum, Southampton, NY

Stranger in the Village, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, organized by the

Museum of Modern Art, NY

On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau, The Fabric Workshop and

Museum,Philadelphia, PA

Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, curated by

TrevorFairbrother

Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude (Toward and understanding oftrans-

generational dialogue as a gift economy), MIT List Visual Arts

Center, Cambridge, MA, curated by Bill Arning

American Art Today: Faces & Figures, The Art Museum at Florida

International University, Miami, FL


2002

LIFE DEATH LOVE HATE PLEASURE PAIN: Selected works from the

MCA Permanent Collection, Museum of ContemporaryArt,

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, OH.

Recent Acquisitions, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Reims,

France

Pushing Aesthetic Boundaries: Contemporary Prints, Gallery M, New

York

Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. Collection: Fifty Years of Supporting the New,

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

New York, New Work, Now!, The Currier Gallery, Manchester, NH,

curated by Nina Felshin

Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany, curated by Okwui Enwezor

Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Museum, New YorkArt Downtown,

Various Locations, New York

A New York Renaissance: Masterworks from the Collection of theWhitney

Museum, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy People See Paintings,

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Tempo, MoMA QNS, Long Island City, NY, curated by Paolo Herkenhoff


2001 Everybody Now: the crowd in contemporary art, Hunter College

Kinds of Drawing, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts,

Amherst (catalogue)

Monochrome/Monochrome?, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York

Pollock to Today: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney

Museum of American Art, New York

Song Poems, Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York, produced by Stephen

Hull

Subject: Plural, Crowds in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts

Museum, Houston, TX (catalogue)

Take Two/Reprise, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada(catalogue)

Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro, London


2000

AutoWerke, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (catalogue)

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

Drawings & Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Dream Machines, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland; Mappin Art

Gallery, Sheffield, UK; Camden Arts Centre, London (catalogue)

Good Business Is the Best Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

(catalogue)

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

Looking Forward, Looking Black, Ezra and Cecile Zilka Gallery,

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Open Ends: White Spectrum, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Points of Reference: Frederick Hayes, Glenn Ligon, Gary Simmons and

Kara Walker, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips

Academy, Andover, MA

Refresh: the Art of the Screen Saver, Cantor Center for the Visual Arts,

Stanford University, CA

Strength and Diversity: A Celebration of African American Artists,

Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Visual

Arts,Cambridge, MA


1999

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

American Art, New York (catalogue)

Other Narratives: Fifteen Years, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston,

TX (catalogue)

Contemporary Narratives in American Prints, Whitney Museum of

American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT

Crosscurrents: New Art from MoMA, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art,

Tokyo (catalogue)

Negotiating Small Truths, The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University

of Texas at Austin, TX

Life Cycles, Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, GermanyKara

Walker/Glenn Ligon, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York

Spaced Out, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

1998 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

Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

Heart, Mind, Body, Soul, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Cut on the Bias: Social Projects of the 90’s from the Permanent

Collection: The Fabric Workshop and Museum,Philadelphia, PA

Histories (Re)Membered: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the

Bronx Museum, Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York

100 Years of Sculpture: From pedestal to Social, Walker Art Center,

Minneapolis, MN

Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris Miami Art Project,

Miami, FL

Hindsight: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum

of American Art, New York

A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan collection,San

Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA


1997

La Biennale di Venezia, XLVII Esposizione Internationale d’Arte, Venice,

Italy (catalogue)

A Decade in Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing,

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Coming of Age, White Columns, New York

Identity Crisis: Self Portraiture at the End of the Century, Milwaukee Art

Museum, Milwaukee, WI.

Traveled: Aspen ArtMuseum, Aspen, CO (catalogue)

Kinds of Abstract, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

Rhapsodies in Black, Hayward Gallery, The South Bank Centre, London

(catalogue) 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.

Sunny Days/Critical Times, The Bohen Foundation, New York

Un Bel Ete, Casino Luxembourg


1996

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

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. Catalogue.

Hotter Than July, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles a/drift, Center for

Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

(catalogue)

Inclusion/Exclusion: Art in the Age of Post-Colonialism and Global

Migration, Steirischer Herbst 96, Graz, Austria (catalogue)

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 d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona,

Spain; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (catalogue)

Burning Issues: Contemporary African-American Art, Museum ofArt,

FortLauderdale, FL (brochure)

Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980-1995, Museum of ModernArt,

New York (catalogue)

10th Biennale of Sydney: Jurassic Technologies Revenant, Art Gallery of

New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (catalogue)

The Mediated Object: Selections from the Eli Broad Collection, Fogg Art

Museum, Cambridge, MA. Traveled: Forum for Contemporary

Art, St. Louis, MO

An American Story, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,

Festival Exit, Maison des Arts de la Culture, Paris-Creteil, France

Screen, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (video catalogue)

Prospect ‘96, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Germany (catalogue)1995

Face Forward: Self Portraiture in Contemporary Art, John Michael

Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

In the Flesh, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

(catalogue)

25 Americans: Painting in the 90’s, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee,

WI (catalogue)

Boxer, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall, UK (catalogue)

XI Mostra da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba/Mostra America,Curitiba,

Brazil (catalogue)

Configura 2: Dialog de Kulturen, Erfurt, Germany (catalogue)

Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire, Institute of

Contemporary Art, London (catalogue)

Glenn Ligon, Gary Simmons, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA,

and Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

Word for Word, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

Pervert, University Museum, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA

(catalogue)

fag-o-sites, Gallery 400, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois

at Chicago, IL


1994

Duchamp’s Leg, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Traveled: Center

for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL (brochure)

The Magic Magic Book, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

(catalogue)

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 (catalogue)

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; Art

Galleryof Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Illingworth Kerr

Art Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary,

Alberta,Canada (catalogue)

Dark o’Clock, Museu de Arte Moderna de Sâo Paulo, Sâo Paulo,

Brazil. Traveled: Plug In, Inc., Video Pool, Ace Art,

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (catalogue)

Stories, Max Protetch Gallery, New York

Equal Rights and Justice, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Traveled:

National Museum of African American History and Culture,

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.(catalogue)

Drama, Max Protetch Gallery, New York

Oliver Herring, Byron Kim, Glenn Ligon, Galerie Gilles Peyroulet, Paris

The Label Show: Contemporary Art and the Museum, Museum of Fine

Arts, Boston, MA (brochure)

Don’t Look Now, Thread Waxing Space, New York (catalogue)


1993

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 ContemporaryArt, St.

Louis, MO; American Center, Paris (catalogue)

42nd Art Street Project, Times Square, New York

Markets of Resistance, White Columns, New York

Myths and Legends As Told and Retold, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston,

MA

Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

(catalogue)

Surfaces: Small Scale Paintings in Black and White, Schmidt

Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO

Extravagant, Russisches, Kulturzentrum, Berlin, Germany

Prints and Issues, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany

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

1993 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Traveled: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South

Korea (catalogue)

Everpresent Moment, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL


1992 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, Yerba Buena Gardens,

San Francisco, CA

A New American Flag, Max Protetch Gallery, New York

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, Denmark (catalogue)

Update ‘ 92, White Columns, New York

Slow Art: Painting in New York, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY

Dream Singers, Story Tellers: An African American Presence,

coorganized 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 (catalogue)

All Words Suck, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden

Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawings, Museum of Modern

Art, New York (catalogue)

Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art, Hayward Gallery,The

South Bank Centre, London, England. Traveled: Santa Monica

Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; North CarolinaMuseum of

Art, Raleigh, NC (catalogue)

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 (catalogue)


1991

1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

(catalogue)

We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming, White Columns,

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 (catalogue)

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

Text Out of Context, SoHo Center, New York

New Work, P.S. 122, New York1990

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

Rutgers National ‘90: Works on Paper, Stedman Art Gallery, Camden,

NJ (brochure)

Art of Resistance, El Bohio, New York

Public Mirror, Art against Racism, The Clocktower Gallery, New York


1989

Selections 46, The Drawing Center, New York


1985

Open Studio, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York


1984

Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY













SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
The Bohen Foundation, New York, NY
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, TX
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

 
 
 
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