Glenn Ligon
- Introduction
- Glenn Ligon (born 1960, pronounced Lie-gōne) is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. Based in New York City, Ligon engages in intertextuality with other works from the visual arts, literature, and history, as well as his own life. He is noted as one of the originators of the term Post-Blackness.
- Wikidata
- Q5568956
Exhibitions
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206: The Sum of All Parts
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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209: Search Engines
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Studio Visit: Selected Gifts from Agnes Gund
Apr 29–Jul 22, 2018
MoMA
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Greater New York
Oct 11, 2015–Mar 7, 2016
MoMA PS1
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Stranger than Fiction: Art of Our Time
Feb 1–May 5, 2014
MoMA
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Glenn Ligon has
28 exhibitionsonline.
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Glenn Ligon Untitled (There is a consciousness we all have...) 1988
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Glenn Ligon Untitled (Well, I am one who doesn't delude myself. [Malcolm X]) 1989
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Glenn Ligon Untitled (How It Feels to be Colored Me) 1991
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Glenn Ligon Untitled (I am an invisible man) 1991
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Sigmar Polke, Glenn Ligon, Niele Toroni, Various Artists Parkett no. 30 1991
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Glenn Ligon Study for Black Like Me. #2 (1992)
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Glenn Ligon Study for Frankenstein #1 (1992)
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Glenn Ligon Untitled (Four Etchings) 1992
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Glenn Ligon Runaways 1993
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Glenn Ligon Untitled from Runaways 1993
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Glenn Ligon Untitled from Runaways 1993
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Glenn Ligon Untitled from Runaways 1993
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Glenn Ligon Untitled from Runaways 1993
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Glenn Ligon Untitled from Runaways 1993
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Glenn Ligon Untitled from Runaways 1993
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Glenn Ligon Untitled from Runaways 1993
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Glenn Ligon Untitled from Runaways 1993
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Glenn Ligon Untitled from Runaways 1993
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Glenn Ligon Untitled from Runaways 1993
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William Wegman, Glenn Ligon, Justen Ladda, Jane Hammond, Philip Taaffe, Vija Celmins, Various Artists The Magic Magic Book 1994
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Glenn Ligon White #19 1994
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Glenn Ligon Study for 'White' series 1996
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Glenn Ligon Untitled 1998
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Glenn Ligon Untitled (Stranger in the Village/Crowd) #2 2000
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Glenn Ligon Untitled (Stranger in the Village/Crowd #1) (2000)
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Glenn Ligon Untitled (Stranger in the Village/Hands #1) (2000)
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Glenn Ligon Graduating Girl (Version 2) #1 2000
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Glenn Ligon Boy on Tire, Letter C, Zululand, Letter M #4 (2001)
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Glenn Ligon Boys with Basketball, Harriet Tubman, Salimu, Letter B #3 2001
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Glenn Ligon Figure 2001
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Glenn Ligon Self-Portrait at Eleven Years Old 2004
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Glenn Ligon The Death of Tom 2008
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