| Biography to 1998 | |
| Born Bronz, New York, 1960. |
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Lives and works in New York. |
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Education |
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| 1985 | Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York. |
| 1989 | B.A. Wesleyan University. Middletown, Connecticut. |
| 1985 | Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. |
| Residencies and Awards |
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| 1997-1998 | ArtPace International Artist-in-Residence program, San Antonio, Texas. |
| 1997 | Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. |
| 1994 | Rockefeller Foundation, Residency, Bellagio Study Center, Bellagio, Italy. |
| 1991 | National Endowment for the Arts, visual Artist Fellowship, Painting. |
| 1990 | Art Matters, Inc., Fellowship. |
| 1989- 1990 |
P.S. 1 National Studio Program, The Clocktower, New York. |
| 1989 | National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship, Drawing. |
| The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire. |
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| 1986 | National Endowment for the Arts, Curatorial Internship, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. |
| Individual Exhibitions |
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| 1998 | "Glenn Ligon: Unbecoming," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Catalog. |
| 1996 | "The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Drawings by Glennn Ligon," The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York. Brochure. |
| "Glenn Ligon: New Work," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California. Traveled as "Glenn Ligon: Day of Absence," Ezra and Cecile Zilka Gallery, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University. Middletown, Conectifut, 1997. Brochure. |
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| 1995 | "Glenn Ligon," Des Moines Art Center, Iowa. Brochure. |
| "Skin Tight,"M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
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| "Photos and Notes," Max Protech Gallery, New York. |
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| 1994 | Project Room, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica California. |
| 1993 | "White," Max Protech Gallery, New York. |
| "Glenn Ligon: To Disembark," Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Traveled: Williams Collage Museum of Art,Willimstown, Massachusetts; Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson, North Carolina; Sppencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas;Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, Michigan, Brochure. |
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| 1992 | "Good Mirrors Are Not Cheap," Whitney Museum of american Art at PhilipMorris, New York. Brochure. Traveled:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. |
| "Glenn Ligon," Max Protech Gallery, New York. |
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| "Glenn Ligon/Matrix 120,"Wadsworth Athenuem, Haartford, Connecticut, Brochure. |
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| 1991 | "Glenn Ligon," White Columns, New York. |
| Project Room, Jack Tilton Galery. |
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| 1990 | "Glenn Ligon," P.S. I Museum, Long Island City, New York. |
| "How It Feels To Be Colored Me," BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, New York. |
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| Selected Group Exhibitions |
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| 1997 | "47th Venice Biennale," Venice, Italy. Catalog. |
| "A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing," Museum of Modern Art, New York. |
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| "Coming of Age,White Columns, New York. |
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| "Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Centtury," Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Traveled: Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado. Catalog. |
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| "Rhapsodies in Black," Hayward Gallery, The South Bank Center, London, England. Traveled: Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England: TheMead Gallery Coventry, England; California Palace of the Legionof Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California;Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wasington D.C | |
| "Sunny Days/Critical Times,"The Bohen Foundation, New York. |
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| "Un Bel Ete," Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg. |
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| 1996 | "Community of Creativity: Acentury of MacDowell Colony Artists," Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire. Traveled: New York School of Design, New York; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas. |
| "The Inner Eye: Art Beyond the Visible," Manchester Cty Art Galleries, Manchester, England. Traveled: Musem and Art Gallery, Brighton, England: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, England:Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, England. Catalog. |
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| "Hotter Than July," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California. |
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| "a/drift," Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandate-on-Hudson,New York. Catalog. "Inclusion/Exclusion: Art in the Ageof Post-Colonialism and Global Migration," Steirischer Herbst 96, Craz, Austria. Catalog. |
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| "Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,"National Gallery, Alexandros Soutzos Museum. |
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| Athens, Greece. Traveled: Museu d’Art Contemporaini, Barcelona, Spain; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany. Catsalog. |
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| "Burning Issues: Contemporary Aftrican-American Art," Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Brochure. |
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| "Thinking Print: Books to Billborards 1980-1995," Museum of Modern Art, New York. Catalog. |
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| "10th Biennale of Sydney: Jurassic Technologies Revenant," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Catalog. |
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| "The Mediated Object: Selections from the Eli Broad Collection," Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Traveled: Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri. |
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| "An American Story," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. |
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| "Festival Exit," Maison des Arts de la Culture, Paaris-Creteil, France. |
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| "Screen," Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York. Video catalog. |
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| "Prospect ’96," Frankfurt, Germany, Catalog. |
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| 1995 | "Face Forward: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Art," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. |
| "In the Flesh," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conecticut. Catalog. |
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| "25 Americans: Painting in the 90’s," Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Catalog. |
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| "Boxer," Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall, England. Catalog. |
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| "XI Mostra da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba/Mostra America," Curitiba, Brazil, Catalog. |
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| "Configura 2: Dialog de Kulturen," Erfurt, Germany. Catalog. |
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| "Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire,"Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England. Catalog. |
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| "Glenn Ligon, Gary Simmons," The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, and Beaver College Art Gallery, Glennside, Pennsylvania. |
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| "Word of Word," Beaver College Art Gallery, Glennside, Pennsylvania. |
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| "Pervert," University Museum, University of California at Irvine. Catalog. |
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| "fag-osites," Gallery 400, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago. |
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| 1994 | "Duchamp’s Leg," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Traveled: Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida. Brochure. |
| "The Magic Magic Book," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalog. |
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| "New Paintings," Max Protetch Galllery, New York. |
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| "Black Male" Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled: Thearmand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California. Catalog. |
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| "Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia," Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Traveled: Decker Galleries, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland: Herbert F. JohnsonMuseum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia: Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada; Illingworth Kerr Art Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Canada. |
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| "Dark o’Clock," Mueu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Traveled: Plug In, Inc. Video Pool, Ace Art, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Catalog. |
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| "Stories," Max Protech Gallery, New York. |
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| "Equal Rights and Justice," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. Traveled: National Museum of African American Historyand Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Catalog. |
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| "Drama," Max Protech Gallery, New York. |
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| "Oliver Herring, Byron Kim, Glennn Ligon," Galerie Gilles Peyrouler, Paris, France. |
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| "The Label Show: Contemporary Art and the Museum," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. Brochure. |
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| "Don’t Look Now," Thread Waxing Space, New York. Catalog. |
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| 1993 | "The Return of the Cadavre Exquis," The Drawing Center, New York. Traveled: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Santa Monica, California; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri; American Center, Paris, France. Catalog. |
| "42nd Street Art Project," Time Square, New York. |
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| "Markers of Resistance," White Columns, New York. |
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| Myths and Legends As Told and Retold," Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. |
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| "Drawing the Line against AIDS," Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Catalog. |
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| "Surfaces: Small Scale Paintings in Black and White," Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri. |
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| "Extravagant," Russisches Kulturzenentrum, Berlin, Germany. |
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| "Prints and Issues," Kunst-Werke, Berlin,Germany. |
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| "Glenn Ligon/Byron Kim," A/C Project Room, New York. |
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| "1993 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled: Naitonal Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, Catalog. |
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| "Everpresent Moment," Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida. |
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| 1992 | "Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Valentine, The Museum of the Life and History of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia; Anacostia Museum, Washington, D.C.; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia; Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, California. |
| "A New American Flag," Max Protech Gallery, New York. |
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| "Mistaken Identities," University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara. Traveled: Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Forum Stadpark, Graz, Austira; Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen im Forum Langenstrasse, Bremen, Germany; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark. Catalog. |
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| "Update ’92," White Columns, New York. |
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| "Slow Art: Painting in New York," P.S. 1 Nuseum, LongIsland City, New York. |
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| "Dream Singers, Story Tellers: An African-American Presence," co-organized by Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui City, Japan, and New Jersey State Museum, Trenton. Traveled: Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima City, and Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City, Japan. Catalog. |
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| "All Words Suck," Anders Tomberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden. |
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| "Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing," Museum of Modern Art, New York. Catalog. |
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| "Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art," Hayward Gallery. The South Bank Center, London, England. Traveled: Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria. Catalog. |
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| "Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art," University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara. Traveled: Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, Catalog. |
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| 1991 | "1991 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalog. |
| "We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming," White Columns, New York. |
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| "Interrogating Identity," Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York. Traveled: Museum of fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Madison Art Cetner, Madison, Wisconsin; Center For the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Catalog. |
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| "Positions of Authority," Art in General, New York. |
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| "Color Theory," Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, State University of New York at Old Westbury. |
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| "Text Out of Context," SoHo Center, New York. |
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| "New Work," P.S. 122, New York. |
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| 1990 "Spent: Currency, Security and Art on Deposit," the new Museum of Contemporary Art at Marine Midland Bank, New York. |
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| "Spent: Currency, Security and Art on Deposit," The New Museum of Contemporary Art at Marine Midland Bank, New York. |
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| "Works on Paper," Selena Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York. |
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| "Rurgers National ’90: Works on Paper," Stedman Art Gallery, Camden, New Jersey. Brochure. |
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| "Art of Resistance," El Bohio, New York. |
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| "Public Mirror, Art against Racism," The Clocktower Gallery, New York. |
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| 1985 | Open Studio," Museum Independent Study Program, New York. |
| 1984 | "Artists in the Marketplace," Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York. |
| Selected Collections: |
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| Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland |
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| The Bohen Foundation, New York |
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| Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, California |
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| Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
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| Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa |
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| Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan |
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| Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, New York |
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| High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia |
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| Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Wasington, D.C. |
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| M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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| Museum of fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, California |
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| Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California |
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| Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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| Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |