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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
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
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
2011
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 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
Glenn Ligon, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, April 22 – May 29, 2010
2009
Glenn Ligon: Off Book, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, December 12, 2009 - January 23, 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, 2008
Glenn Ligon: Love and Theft, Power House, Memphis, Tennessee, March 22 – May 31, 2008
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, 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
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.; 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, 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
2012
Weighted Words, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England, March 1- June 10, 2012
2011
Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), September 17 – November 13, 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
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
2010
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 – 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 2010 - 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
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 2009 – January 3, 2010
Black Is, Black Ain't, ArtSpace, Kansas City, MO, June 27 – October 17, 2009
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
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
2008
Listen Darling…The World is Yours, Ellipse Foundation, Portugal, October 11, 2008 - August 30, 2009
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, Illinois, April 20 – June 8, 2008
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, 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
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
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 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
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, curated by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis; traveld 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, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY,organized by ICI; traveled 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 Trevor Fairbrother
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
LIFE DEATH LOVE HATE PLEASURE PAIN: Selected works from the MCA Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, 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 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
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, Germany
Kara 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.
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 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. 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 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. 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 Contemporary Art, 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 Carolina Museum 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 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
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
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.
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
