_Glenn Ligon
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BIOGRAPHY
Born Bronx, New York on April 20, 1960.
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, RESIDENCIES, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2013 School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 18th Annual Medal Award
2012 International Association of Art Critics Award
2010 United States Artists Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Studio Museum's Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, New York, NY
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
1999-2000 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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
2013
Glenn Ligon, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, March 29 – June 30, 2013
2012
Glenn Ligon: Neon, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, October 26- December 8, 2012
2011
America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, March 10 – June 5, 2011; travels to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, October 23 – January 22, 2012; travels to Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, February 12– June 3, 2012, cat.
2010
Neither Here nor There, FOREX series, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, April 22 – May 29, 2010
2009
Glenn Ligon: Off Book, Regen Projects and Regen Projects II, Los Angeles, CA, December 12, 2009 – January 24, 2010
Glenn Ligon: 'Nobody' and Other Songs, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, January 29
– March 7, 2009
2008
Glenn Ligon: Figure/Paysage/Marine, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France, October 21- December 6
Glenn Ligon: Love and Theft, Power House, Memphis, Tennessee, March
22 – May 31, 2008
2007
Glenn Ligon: No Room (Gold), Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, October 27 – December 8, 2007
Unauthorized, Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, NY, June 16–August 25
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
Drawings, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, February 17–March 14
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 Gallery, 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)
Circa 1971, '72 or '73, The Gallery at Dieu Donné Papermill, New York,
NY, October 28–December 23
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, January 11- February 15, 2002
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
Nothing Under the Sun, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY, January 3–January 28
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)
Runaways, MOSAIC: Museum Study Center, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art,
University of Florida, Gainesville, September 11–December 14 (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
Des Moines Art Center, IA, January 20–April 16 (brochure)
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)
Skin Tight, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, October 7–December 10.
1994
Project Room, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993
Glenn Ligon: to Disembark, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington, D.C.; travels to 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/MATRIX 120, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, August
30–November 15 (brochure)
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
1990
Winter Exhibition Series, National and International Studio Artist
Program (1989–90), P.S. 1 Museum, The Institute for Contemporary Art,
Long Island City, NY, dates unknown.
How It Feels to be Colored Me: A Project by Glenn Ligon, BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, NY, September 6–October 13.
1982
Glenn Ligon, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, April 6–11.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Black and White, Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, May 7-June 8, 2013
Speak, Memory, The Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY, May 1 – June 8 2013
Network of Mutuality: 50 Years Post-Birmingham, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, January 30 – April 27, 2013.
NYC 1993, New Museum, New York, NY, February 13 – May 26, 2013
2012
The Annual 2012, National Academy, New York, NY, January 25 – April 29, 2012
Material, curated by Duro Olowu, Salon 94 Freemans, New York, NY, February 8 – March 10, 2012
Weighted Words, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England, March 1- June 10, 2012
Self-portraits, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, September 14, 2012- January 13, 2013
TERRAIN: Selected Works from the Linda Pace Foundation Collection, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas, February 17 – March 23, 2012
The Painting Factory, Los Angeles MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, April 29 – August 20, 2012.
The Residue of Memory, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, May 11 – July 15.
Material Assumptions: Paper as Dialogue, Center for Books and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, June 15- August 11, 2012
Invisible: Art about the Unseen, 1957-2012, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, June 12 – August 5.
Painting in Space, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, June 22- August 17, 2012
New to the Print Collection: Matisse to Bourgeois, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, June 25, 2012 –January 7, 2013.
Inaugural Exhibition by Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, September 22- October 27, 2012
Blues For Smoke, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, October 21, 2012 – January 7,
2013; traveled to Whitney Museum, New York, NY, February 7 – April 28, 2013.
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, September 18–December 31, 2012.
2011
If you Lived Here You'd be Home, Curated by Josiah McElheny, Tom
Eccles and Lynne Cook, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on Hudson, NY, June 25 – Dec 11, 2011
Black Swan: The Exhibition. Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, Feb 25 - April 16
American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, Nov 30 2011-
July 27, 2012
America: Now + Here, a travelling exhibition in multiple expandable
trucks, in many US Cities including Kansas City, Detroit, and Chicago,
and Aspen, curated by Eric Fischl April 2010 – November 2011.
Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), September 17 – November 13, 2011
We Will Live, We Will See, Zabludowicz Collection, London, July 7- August 14, 2011
The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum In Harlem, Bronx, NY, November 10, 2011 – September 2, 2012
HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, November 18, 2011- February 12, 2012
Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Kent, United Kingdom, September 17, 2011 - January 8, 2012
30 Americans, Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C., October 1 – February 12, 2011
The Bearden Project, Studio Museum, New York, NY, November 10, 2011 – March 11, 2012
Jean Genet, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom, July 16 – October 2011
The Last First Decade, Ellipse Foundation, Portugal, April 30 – December 18, 2011
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 13—July 4, 2011
Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, May 2011; travels to the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, October 2011
Face Off: Portraits by Contemporary Artists, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT, April 10 – September 18, 2011.
ARTiculate: Links Between Visual and Verbal Expression, Camden Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Rutgers, NJ, January 18 – February 26.
Robert Mapplethorpe: Night Works, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England, January 19-March 19
Collecting Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, January 16–November 28
Distant Star/Estrella Distante, An exhibition around the writings of Roberto Bolaño. Regen Projects, Los Angeles, United States; kurimanzutto, Mexico City
2010
From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, January 29–May 9.
Imitation and Invention, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT, January 29–March 4.
Twenty Five, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, May 8–June 19.
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, October 30 - February 13, 2011; travels to Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, November 18, 2011- February 12, 2012; travels to Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, March 17, 2012 – June 10, 2012, cat.
Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, September 28 – December 11, 2010
Minima Moralia, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY, September 18 – October 30, 2010
Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That), organized by Walead Beshty, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, July 17 – August 21, 2010
Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 30, 2010 – September 12, 2011
This Girl Bends: Art and Feminism Since 1960, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, June 26 – December 12, 2010
Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices, 1970s to the present, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, June 10 – September 27, 2010, cat.
Living with Art: Collecting Contemporary in Metro New York, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY, May 1 – August 15, 2010
Self-Consciousness, VeneKlasen Werner Gallery, Berlin, April 30- June 26
Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, April 16 – August 1, 2010
El Gabinete Blanco, Fundacion/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico, April 15, 2010 – September 5, 2010
Substitute Teacher, The Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA, March 5-
May 16, 2010
Freedom of Expression: Politics and Aesthetics in African American Art, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, March 4 – June 13, 2010
The Library of Babel/ In and Out of Place, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, England, February 25 - June 13, 2010
Desire, The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, February 5 - April 25, 2010, cat.
Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, England, January 29 – April 25, 2010
Hard Targets, Wexner Center or the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, January 29 – April 11, 2010
Collecting Biennials, Whitney Museum, New York, January 16 - November 28, 2010
2009
Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum
in Harlem, NY, April 2–June 28.
Between Art and Life: Contemporary Works from the Collection, San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, May 10, 2009–January 3, 2010.
Racism: An American Family Value, The Center for Book Arts, New York,
NY, July 8–September 12 (catalogue).
Extended Family: Contemporary Connections, Brooklyn Museum, NY, August
4, 2009–September 5, 2010.
Exposed!–Revealing Sources in Contemporary Art, Delaware Art Museum,
Wilmington, DE, August 15–October 4.
Beg, Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, December
2, 2009–May 29, 2010 (catalogue).
30 Seconds off an Inch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, November 11, 2009 –
March 14, 2010
Reflection: A Video Program, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, August 25 – November 21, 2009
Infinitesimal Eternity, 32 Edgewood Avenue Gallery, Yale School of Art,
New Haven, CT, September 9 – October 24, 2009
Exposed: Revealing Sources in Contemporary Art, Delaware Art Museum, Delaware, August 15 – October 4, 2009
Post-American L.A., 18th Street Arts Organization, Santa Monica, CA, August 1 – September 30, 2009
The Matrix Effect, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, July 25, 2009 – January 3, 2010
Black Is, Black Ain't, ArtSpace, Kansas City, MO, June 27 – October 17, 2009
FAX, The Drawing Center, New York, April 17 – July 23, 2009; travels to the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, September 12 – December 20, 2009; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, January 14 – February 20, 2010; Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada, March 16 – May 23, 2010; Dowd Gallery, Cortland, NY, September 2 – October 28, 2010; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico; Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem,
NY, April 2 – June 28, 2009
Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, March 24 – September, 2009
2008
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International
Center of Photography, New York, NY, January 18–May 4 (catalogue).
Working History: African American Art & Objects, Douglas F. Cooley
Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR, January 22–March 2.
Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past,
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, February 13–April 19.
African-American Master Artists, Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, NY, March 6–29.
A Collaborative Effort, Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, NY, May 1–31.
The Summer Exhibition, Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, NY, July 8–August 30.
Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions, 7th Gwangju Biennale, South
Korea, September 5–November 9 (catalogue).
Notations: The Closing Decade, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA,
November 21, 2008–October 25, 2009.
Phillips, Lisa, Listen Darling…The World is Yours, Ellipse Foundation, Portugal, October 11, 2008 – August 30, 2009
Butler, Connie, Here is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, September 10 – March 23, 2009
The 7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea, September 5, 2008 –
November 9, 2008
The Wizard OZ, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts,
San Francisco, September 2 – December 13, 2008
30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, December 3, 2008 – November 28, 2009; travels to Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design, Washington D.C., October 1, 2011 – February 12, 2012
Focus: The Figure, Art from the Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, August 25, 2008 - February 1, 2011 Across the Divide: Reconsidering the Other, Illinois State Museum,
Springfield, Il, August 17, 2008 – January 11, 2009
Intimacy, curated by Anne Pasternak, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY, August 15 - 25, 2008
Progress, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, July 11 – November 30, 2008
Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City, Gottesman Exhibition
Hall, The New York Public Library, May 2 – August 29, 2008.
You & Me, Sometimes…, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY, March 20 – May 3, 2008
Under Pain of Death, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, January 22 – May 10, 2008
Black is, Black Ain't, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, April 20 – June 8, 2008
2007
The Paintings of Mike Cloud: In Celebration of Black History Month,
Lincoln Center Gallery, New York, NY, February 1–March 3.
Not For Sale, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY,
February 11–April 30.
Paper Trail: A Decade of Acquisitions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,
MN, March 16–September 23.
Simply Red, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, April 7–May 19.
Collected Identities: Gifts from the Blake Byrne Collection, Nasher
Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC, April 19–September 30.
For the Love of the Game: Race and Sport in America, Wadsworth
Atheneum, Hartford, CT, June 9–October 21.
Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, July 7–August 25.
Taking Aim: Selections from the Elliot L. Perry Collection, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, August 31–October 11.
ART PROTECTS, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France, September 8–9.
Modern Times: Alumni Collect, Bowdoin College Museum of Art,
Brunswick, ME, October 14, 2007– March 9, 2008.
Read Me! Text in Art, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, December 9, 2007–February 24, 2008.
Come, Come, Come, Into my World, Art Centre, Cascais, Portugal, November 11, 2007
Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, May 17 – September 3, 2007
At Home, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, NY, July 10, 2007 – August 21, 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 – January 31, 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 Projects at Art Basel 38, Switzerland, June 13 – 17, 2007
Art in America, Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, 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
Ernest C. Withers and Glenn Ligon: I Am A Man. Teaching Galleries One
and Two, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO, January 20–March 28.
Down by Law, curated by The Wrong Gallery, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, NY, January 21–May 15.
Collective Histories/Collective Memories: California Modern, Orange
County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, February 6–September 24.
Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors
and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, May
19–June 12.
Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, New-York Historical
Society, New York, NY, June 16, 2006–January 7, 2007 (catalogue).
The Past Made Present: Contemporary Art and Memory, Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, TX, September 2, 2006–January 15, 2007.
Group Dynamic: Portfolios, Series, and Sets, Des Moines Art Center,
IA, September 15–December 29.
black alphabet: conTEXTS of contemporary african-american art, Zacheta
National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, September 22–November 19.
Interstellar Low Ways, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, October 15,
2006–January 14, 2007.
Process and Collaboration: Celebrating Twelve Years at 1315 Cherry
Street, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, December 2,
2006–January 6, 2007.
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
Portraits of Artists: A selection of photographic works from the collection, Luhring Augustine, New York, January 7 – February 11, 2006
2005
Shades of Black(ness), Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, January 25–March 3.
Collection Remixed, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY, February 3–June 5 (catalogue).
Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, March 24– September 18.
The Shape of Time, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, April 17, 2005–October 25, 2009.
Very Early Pictures, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los
Angeles, May 26–July 23. Traveled to: Arcadia University Gallery, Glenside, PA, September 6–October 30.
African American Art: Masterworks of Contemporary Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, MO, June 24–August 28.
Wordplay: Text and Image from 1950 to Now, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, October 25–December 11.
The Painted Word: Language as Image in Modern Art, Williams Center for the Arts Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, October 28–December 14 (brochure).
Between Image and Concept: Recent Acquisitions in African American Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, November 12, 2005–February 6, 2006.
Beauford Delaney in Context: Selections from the Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, November 13, 2005–February 26, 2006.
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
American Art on Paper from the 1960s to Present: Selections from the
Permanent Collection, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (formerly the
Washington University Gallery of Art), Washington University in St.
Louis, MO, January 23–April 18.
neoqueer: new visual art by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
artists, Center on Contemporary Art (COCA), Seattle, WA, February
7–March 20.
Super-Sized: The Big Print Show, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, May
12–June 12.
Remembering, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside,
October 1–December 11.
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 Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo (Udine), Italy, curated by Francesco Bonami
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 by Shannen Hill
2003
American Art Today: Faces and Figures, The Patricia & Phillip Frost
Art Museum (formerly The Art Museum at FIU), Florida International
University, Miami, January 17–March 9.
The Harlem Renaissance and Its Legacy, Worcester Art Museum, MA,
January 18–April 13.
A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art Institute of
Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, IL, February 15–May 18 (catalogue).
Structures of Difference, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford,
CT, February–April 13.
The Space Between: Artists Engaging Race and Syncretism, Davis Museum
and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, March 18–June
8.
Visual Poetics: Art and the Word, Miami Art Museum, FL, April
25–November 16 (brochure).
Visualizing Identity, The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of
Texas at Austin, August 27, 2003–January 4, 2004.
Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection, Cleveland Museum
of Art, OH, October 26, 2003–January 1, 2004 (catalogue).
Skin Deep, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC, March 15–April 26 (brochure).
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 John Connelly
The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, curated by Alison 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 at Hostos, Bronx, NY
The Paper Sculpture Show, Sculpture Center, 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 Art Museum, 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
Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude (Toward and understanding of trans- 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
time/frame, The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, January 25–July 28.
Fifty Years of Supporting the New: The Charles H. Carpenter Jr.
Collection, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, September 22–December 31.
In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (organizer)
(catalogue). Traveled to: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American
History, Detroit, MI, January 12–August 4; Bass Museum of Art, Miami
Beach, FL, September 7–December 1; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum,
Minneapolis, MN, January 19–April 6, 2003; International Gallery,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, May 15–July 27, 2003; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, August 30–November 9, 2003; and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL, January 3–March 28, 2004.
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: travels 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 York Art Downtown, Various Locations, New York
A New York Renaissance: Masterworks from the Collection of the Whitney 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
A Way with Words: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY, January 19–March 30 (brochure).
Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Building the Collection, The Jack S.
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, January 19–March 4.
Race in Digital Space, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA,
April 27–July 1 (catalogue). Traveled to: The Studio Museum in Harlem,
NY, January 24–March 31, 2002; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art,
Atlanta, GA, October 22, 2002–February 22, 2003.
Drawing on Language, SPACES, Cleveland, OH, May 4–June 15 (brochure).
Digital: Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY, June
22–September 2 (catalogue).
Red, Black and Green, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, July 12–September 16.
New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions from the Department of
Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, October 25,
2001–January 8, 2002.
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
Pollock to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, NY, December 7, 2000–February 10, 2002.
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
Compliments, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, The Educational Alliance, New
York, NY, January 7–February 4.
Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990–99, Institute of Contemporary
Art, Boston, MA, March 31–May 28 (catalogue).
Con(text): Words, Texts, and Meaning in the Permanent Collection, The
Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY, April 7–September 5.
The Ecstatic, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY, September 2–18.
Calendar 2000, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, September 26–December 17.
Drawing in the Present Tense, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, October 13–December 3, 1999
(catalogue). Traveled to: Julian Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut
State University, Willimantic, CT, January 7–February 27, 2000.
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, Germany
Kara Walker/Glenn Ligon, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York
Spaced Out, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
1998
Miami Arts Project, Miami, FL, January–March (brochure).
I'm Still In Love With You: Visual Artists and Writers Respond to the
1972 Album by Al Green, Women's 20th Century Club, Eagle Rock, CA,
February 14–March 14.
Postcards from Black America, Breda, De Bayerd Museum, The
Netherlands. dates unknown (catalogue).
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
Civil Progress: Life in Black America, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle,
WA, February 6– March 30.
Blind Spot: Coming of Age, White Columns, New York, NY, May 8–29.
Kimchi Xtravaganza, Korean American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, June 16,
1997–January 10, 1998 (catalogue).
The Dual Muse: The Writer As Artist, The Artist As Writer, Washington
University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO, November 7–December 21
(catalogue).
Thirty-Third Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art
Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, November 16,
1997–January 18, 1998 (catalogue).
Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990's, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NY, November 26, 1997–January 4, 1998.
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; travels to the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (catalogue)
Kinds of Abstract, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Rhapsodies in Black, Hayward Gallery, The South Bank Centre, London; travels to 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. (catalogue)
Sunny Days/Critical Times, The Bohen Foundation, New York
Un Bel Ete, Casino Luxembourg
1996
On Paper II, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, January 23–February 20.
Tangles, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, November
2–December 21.
Community of Creativity: A Century of MacDowell Colony Artists, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; travels to the 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; travels to the Museum and Art Gallery, 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; travels to Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (catalogue)
Burning Issues: Contemporary African-American Art, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL (brochure)
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980-1995, Museum of Modern Art,
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; travels to 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
In a Different Light, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum
and Pacific Film Archive, January 11–April 9 (catalogue).
Articulations: Forms of Language, Whitney Museum of American Art
(organizer), Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY, May 13–June
30 (brochure).
Telling Tales, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, September 14–October 28.
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
Physical Evidence, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, April 12–May 28
Duchamp's Leg, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; travels to the 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; travels to the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; travels to 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 Gallery of 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; travels to 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.; travels to the 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
In Transit, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, January 15–April 11.
Readymade Identities: Works of Six Artists at the Project Room, The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, April 3–May 18.
Black & White: Paintings by Jerald Ieans, Julian Lethbridge, Glenn
Ligon, David Ortins, Harvey Tulcensky and Christopher Wool, Schmidt
Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, June 19–July 16.
Everyday Life, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, December 4,
1993–January 15, 1994.
The Return of the 'Cadavre Exquis', The Drawing Center, NewYork; travels to the 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
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; travels to the 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;
travels to the 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; travels to the 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; travels to the 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; travels to the Santa Monica
Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; North Carolina Museum of
Art, Raleigh, NC (catalogue)
Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art, University Art Museum,
University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA;
travels to the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; North
Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (catalogue)
1991
AIDS, A Community in Crisis, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY, dates unknown.
Language: Body and Dream, P.S. 122, New York, NY, dates unknown.
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;
travels to the 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 York 1990
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
1990
$pent: Currency, Security and Art on Deposit, New Museum of
Contemporary Art at Marine Midland Bank, New York, NY, after October 1.
Public Mirror, Artists against Racial Prejudice, P.S.1 Institute of
Contemporary Art at The Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY. September
13–October 7.
1989
Selections 46, The Drawing Center, New York
Open Studios, The Institute for Contemporary Art at The Clocktower
Gallery, New York, NY, dates unknown.
The National and International Studio Artists 1989–90, P.S. 1 Museum,
Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY, dates unknown.
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
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
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.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
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
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
New School, New York, NY
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
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
