Glenn Ligon

GLENN LIGON (b. 1960), throughout his career as an artist, has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature and society across bodies of work that build critically on the legacies of modern painting and conceptual art. He earned his BA from Wesleyan University (1982) and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (1985). Important solo exhibitions include ‘Post-Noir’, Carré d’Art, Nîmes (2022); ‘Call and Response’, Camden Arts Centre, London (2014); and his mid-career retro- spective ‘America’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2011). Select curatorial projects include ‘Grief and Grievance’, New Museum, New York (2021), and ‘Blue Black’, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis (2017). He has participated in numerous inter- national exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2015, 1997) and Documenta XI (2002). Ligon lives and works in New York.

Ligon is curating our exhibition Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place, a series of site-specific interventions throughout the Museum as well as two dedicated galleries of the artist's own artworks.