Born in Bronx, , 1960 Lives and works in New York NY

Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York NY, 1985 BA, , Middletown CT, 1982 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI, 1980

Solo Exhibitions

2016 Glenn Ligon, A Small Band, Rebuild Foundation, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago IL Glenn Ligon: Untitled (Bruise/Blues), Stevenson, Johannesburg, South Africa What We Said the Last Time, Luhring Augustine, New York NY We Need to Wake Up Cause That’s What Time It Is, Luhring Augustine Bushwick, Brooklyn NY

2015 Glenn Ligon: Live, Regen Projects, CA Glenn Ligon: Well, it’s bye – bye / If you call that gone, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA

2014 Glenn Ligon: Call and Response, Camden Arts Centre, London, England Glenn Ligon: Come Out, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England Glenn Ligon: Narratives, Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg PA

2013 Glenn Ligon, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2012 Glenn Ligon: Neon, Luhring Augustine, New York NY

2011 Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY; travelled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth TX

2010 Neither Here nor There, Stevenson, Cape Town, South Africa

2009 Glenn Ligon: Off Book, Regen Projects and Regen Projects II, Los Angeles CA ‘Nobody’ and Other Songs, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England

2008 Figure / Paysage / Marine, Yvon Lambert, , Love and Theft, Power House Memphis, Memphis TX

2007 Glenn Ligon: No Room (Gold), Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA Unauthorized, Bill Hodges Gallery, New York NY

2006 Glenn Ligon: Brilliant Corners, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England We Had Everything Before Us - We Had Nothing Before Us, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Glenn Ligon, Grossman Gallery at Lafayette College, Easton PA

2005 Glenn Ligon: Some Changes, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada; travelled to: the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston TX; Museum, Pittsburgh PA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Luxembourg - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg Drawings, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen CO

2004 Text Paintings: 1990 – 2004, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA Circa 1971, ’72 or ’73, The Gallery at Dieu Donné Papermill, New York NY

2003 Going There, D’Amelio Terras, New York NY Annotations, Dia Center for the Arts, New York NY, online project

2002 Glenn Ligon, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco CA

2001 Colored, D’Amelio Terras, New York NY Portraits and Not-Portraits, Kunstverein Munich, Germany Stranger, The , New York NY

2000 Artist-in-Residendence: Glenn Ligon, , Minneapolis MN Coloring: New Work by Glenn Ligon, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN Currents 81, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis MO

1998 Nothing Under the Sun, Max Protetch Gallery, New York NY Glenn Ligon: Unbecoming, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA Glenn Ligon, ArtPace, San Antonio TX

1997 Glenn Ligon: Day of Absence, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT Runaways, MOSAIC: Museum Study Center, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville FL

1996 The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Drawings by Glenn Ligon, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY Glenn Ligon: New Work, San Francisco , San Francisco CA

1995 Photos and Notes, Max Protetch Gallery, New York NY Skin Tight, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA Glenn Ligon, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines IA

1994 Project Room, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica CA

1993 Glenn Ligon: to Disembark, Hirshhorn Museum and Garden, Washington DC; travelled to: Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown MA; Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson NC; Spencer Museum of

Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS; Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit MI (brochure) White, Max Protetch Gallery, New York NY Good Are Not Cheap, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York NY; travelled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA

1992 Glenn Ligon, Max Protech Gallery, New York NY Glenn Ligon/Matrix 120, , Hartford CT

1991 Glenn Ligon, White Columns, New York NY Project Room: Glenn Ligon, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York NY

1990 Winter Exhibition Series, National and International Studio Artist Program (1989-90), Institute for Contemporary Art, PS1, Long Island City NY How It Feels to Be Colored Me: A Project by Glenn Ligon, BACA Downtown, Brooklyn NY

1982 Glenn Ligon, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT

Group Exhibitions

2017 UNPACKING: The Marciano Collection, curated by Philipp Kaiser, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles CA Urban Planning: Contemporary Art and the City 1967–2017, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis MO The Restless Earth, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy The Intricacies of Love, BronxArtSpace, Bronx NY American Dream: Pop to the Present, The British Museum, London, England What I Loved: Selected Works from the ‘90s, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA Excerpt, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY Change of State, Essex Street Gallery, New York NY We need to talk…, Petzel Gallery, New York NY

2016 65 Works Selected by James Welling: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, David Zwirner, New York NY Progressive Praxis, de la Cruz Collection, Miami FL L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA Let There Be More Light, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco CA The Making of a Fugitive, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL A Deeper Dive, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York NY The Revolution Will Not Be Gray, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO This Is a Portrait if I Say So: Re-imagining Representation in American Art, 1912–Today, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick ME Forthcoming: Blackness in Abstraction, Pace Gallery, New York NY Lines of Flight, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York NY You go to my head, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY Cock, Paper, Scissors, Plummer Park, Long Hall, West Hollywood CA Who We Be, Cantor Arts Center, , Stanford CA A History. Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany The Natural Order of Things, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico Entanglements, curated by Glenn Ligon, Luhring Augustine, New York NY Pure Pulp: Contemporary Artists Working in Paper at Dieu Donné, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton NY REMIX: Themes & Variations in African American Art, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia SC Statements: African American Art from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston TX Masterworks on Paper: Highlights from the Portland Museum of Art, Portland Museum of Art, Portland OR

Wordplay: Matthias Buchinger's Drawings from the Collection of Ricky Jay, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY

2015 DLA Piper Series: Constellations, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England I am a Lie and I am Gold, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York NY Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany Missing Persons, The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford CA Carte Blanche to Luhring Augustine, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris France Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City NY New Skin, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon Collecting and Sharing: Trevor Fairbrother, John T. Kirk, and the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH The Art of Our Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL; travelled to: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, New York NY Wild Noise: Artwork from Museum of the Arts and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Bronx Museum of Arts, New York NY; travelled to: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de la Habana, Havana, Cuba All the World’s Futures, 56th , Venezia Giardini – Arsenale Orario, Venice, Italy America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, curated by Glenn Ligon, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England; travelled to: Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England Picturing the Iconic: Andy Warhol to Kara Walker, Art Museum of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa CA; travelled to: Kimball Art Museum, Park City UT Dancing Foxes Benefit Exhibition, Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York NY Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham NC; travelled to: State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus OH; Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York NY; Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, , Los Angeles CA; travelled to Menil Collection, Houston TX Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair NJ; travelled to: Telfair Museums, Savannah GA; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor MI; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin TX 75 Gifts for 75 Years, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN First Edition: Finalists Exhibition, Mario Merz Prize, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy Museum Studies, The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Collegeville PA Laugh-in: Art, Comedy, Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla CA Represent: 200 Years of Aftrican American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA

2014 Artists for Artists: 51st Anniversary Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY To Have and to Hold, Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL Beneath the Surface, De La Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami FL Speaking of People: Ebony, Jet and Contemporary Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY Civil Rights: We Have It in Our Power to Begin the World Over Again, Void, Derry, Northern Ireland Literary Devices, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City NY Stars + Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, Australia; travelled to: Grafton Regional Art Gallery, Grafton, Australia; Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Sydney, Australia; Cowra Regional Art Gallery, Cowra, Australia; Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, Australia; Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, Australia; Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, Australia; Latrobe Regional Art Gallery, Morwell, Australia; travels to Ipswich Art Gallery, Ipswich, England Rauschenberg: Collecting & Connecting, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham NC A History. Art, Architecture, Design from the 1980s Until Today, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Bloodflames Revisited, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York NY More Material, Salon 94, New York NY 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

The Disappearance of the Fireflies, Collection Lambert, Sainte-Anne Prison, , France Somos Libres II: Works from the Mario Testino Collection, Pinacoteca Gianni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy Man in the , Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium Take Liberty!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway Reliable Tension, or: How to Win a Conversation About Jasper Johns, 32 Edgewood Avenue Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven CT Take it or Leave it: Institute, Image, Ideology, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA 30 Americans, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans LA Point of View: African American Art Masters from the Elliot and Kimberly Perry Collection, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit MI

2013 Postscript: Writing After , The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada Cinematic Visions: Painting at the Edge of Reality, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England Color Bind: The MCA Collection in Black and White, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL Each One As She May – Ligon, Reich & De Keersmaeker, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA Fiction/Nonfiction, Esker Foundation, Calgary, Canada In a Silent Way, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA Revelations, Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada Blues for Smoke, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY The Unphotographable, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco CA Black and White, Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Speak, Memory, The Wallach Art Gallery, New York NY Network of Mutuality: 50 Years Post-Birmingham, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park MD NYC 1993, New Museum, New York NY Word and Image, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Hanover NH We Hold These Truths…The Hofstra University Museum, Hempstead NY

2012 Taboo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia The Annual 2012. National Academy, New York NY Material, curated by Duro Olowu, Salon 94 Freemans, New York NY Weighted Words, The Zabludowicz Collection, London, England Self-Portrait, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark TERRAIN: Selected Works from the Linda Pace Foundation Collection, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio TX The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Andy Warhol, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA The Residue of Memory, Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen CO Material Assumptions: Paper as Dialogue, Center for Books and Paper Arts, Los Angeles CA Invisible: Art about the Unseen, 1957-2012, Hayward Gallery, London, England Painting in Space, Luhring Augustine, New York NY New to the Print Collection: Matisse to Bourgeois, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY Blues for Smoke, MOCA, Los Angeles CA War Prizes: The Cultural Legacy of Slavery & The Civil War, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artist, Fifty Years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY

2011 If you Lived Here You’d be Home By Now, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, curated by Josiah McElheny, Annandale- On-Hudson NY 30 Americans, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. After Hours: Murals on the Bowery,(part of Festival of Idea for a New City), New York NY America: Now + Here, curated by Eric Fischl , a travelling exhibition in multiple expandable trucks, in many US Cities including Kansas City, Detroit, and Chicago, and Aspen American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL ARTiculate: Links Between Visual and Verbal Expression, Camden Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University, Rutgers NJ Black Swan: The Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY Collecting Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY Distant Star/Estrella Distante, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City and Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA

Face Off: Portraits by Contemporary Artists, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London CT HIDE/SEEK: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial) Jean Genet, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England The Last First Decade, Ellipse Foundation, Portugal : Night Work, Curated by Scissor Sisters, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, England Nothing in the World But Youth, Turner Contemporary, Kent, England Seeing : Five Stories, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco CA; travelled to: the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. We Will Live, We Will See, Zabludowicz Collection, London, England Black White Gray Blue, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines IA

2010 From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland OH Imitation and Invention, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT Twenty Five, Luhring Augustine, New York NY Huckleberry Finn, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco CA Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC; travelled to: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA Minima Moralia, Marvelli Gallery, New York NY Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That), organized by Walead Beshty, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY This Girl Bends: Art and Feminism Since 1960, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown MA Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices, 1970s to the present, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Living with Art: Collecting Contemporary in Metro New York, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University, Purchase, New York NY Self-Consciousness, VeneKlasen Werner Gallery, Berlin, Germany Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis MN El Gabinete Blanco, Fundacion/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico Substitute Teacher, The Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta GA Freedom of Expression: Politics and Aesthetics in African American Art, Colby College Museum of Art,Waterville ME The Library of Babel/ In and Out of Place, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, England Desire, The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, England Hard Targets, Wexner Center or the Arts, Columbus OH

2009 Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY Modern and Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL Between Art and Life: Contemporary Works from the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA Extended Family: Contemporary Connections, Brooklyn Museum, New York NY 30 Seconds off an Inch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY Black Is, Black Ain’t, ArtSpace, Kansas City MO Beg, Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL Reflection: A Video Program, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL Infinitesimal Eternity, 32 Edgewood Avenue Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven CT Post-American L.A., 18th Street Arts Organization, Santa Monica CA Exposed: Revealing Sources in Contemporary Art, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington DE The Matrix Effect, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford CT Racism: An American Family Value, The Center for Book Arts, New York NY FAX, The Drawing Center, New York NY; travelled to: Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance CA; Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada; Dowd Gallery, Cortland, New York NY; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico; Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong

2008 Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, New York, NY

Working History: African American Art & Objects, Douglas F Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland OR Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury VT African-American Master Artists, Bill Hodges Gallery, New York NY A Collaborative Effort, Bill Hodges Gallery, New York NY The Summer Exhibition, Bill Hodges Gallery, New York NY Notations: The Closing Decade, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA International 08, Liverpool Biennale, England Listen Darling...The World is Yours, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal Here is Every Four Decades of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY The 7th Gwangju Biennale: Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea The Wizard OZ, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco CA 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL Across the Divide: Reconsidering the Other, Illinois State Museum, Springfield IL Intimacy, curated by Anne Pasternak, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, New York NY Progress, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY Eminent Domain: Contemporary Photography and the City, Gottesman Exhibition Hall, The New York Public Library, New York NY You & Me, Sometimes..., Lehmann Maupin, New York NY Under Pain of Death, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York NY Black is, Black Ain’t, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago IL

2007 The Paintings of Mike Cloud: In Celebration of Black History Month, Gallery, New York NY Not For Sale, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City NY Paper Trail: A Decade of Acquisitions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN Simply Red, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia PA Collected Identities: Gifts from the Blake Byrne Collection, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham NC For the Love of the Game: Race and Sport in America, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA Taking Aim: Selections from the Elliot L Perry Collection, Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis TN ART PROTECTS, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France Modern Times: Alumni Collect, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick ME Read Me! Text in Art, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA Come, Come, Come, Into my World , Art Centre, Cascais, Portugal Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA At Home, , New York NY Mario Testino: At Home, Yvon Lambert, New York NY What is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY Substance & Surface, Bortolami Gallery, New York NY Contemporary Art from the Harvard University Art Museums Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge MA Repicturing the Past/Picturing the Present, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY Art Unlimited, Regen Projects at Art Basel 38, Basel, Switzerland Art in America, Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, ShanHai, China Paper: from the collection of Emily Fisher Landau, curated By Bill Katz, The Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York NY Remix Identity and Abstraction, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY Learn to Read, curated by Vincent Honoré and Maeve Polkinhorn, , London, England Novel Readings, curated by Florencia Malbrán, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York NY Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX

2006 Ernest C Withers and Glenn Ligon: I Am A Man Teaching Galleries One and Two, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis MO Down by Law, curated by The Wrong Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY

Collective Histories/Collective Memories: California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York NY Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery, New-York Historical Society, New York NY The Past Made Present: Contemporary Art and Memory, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX Group Dynamic: Portfolios, Series, and Sets, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines IA black alphabet: conTEXTS of contemporary african-american art, Zacheta , Warsaw, Poland Interstellar Low Ways, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL Process and Collaboration: Celebrating Twelve Years at 1315 Cherry Street, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia PA The Starry Messenger: Visions of the Universe, Compton Verney, England Die Neue Kunsthalle III, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany Defamation of Character, organized by Neville Wakefield, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York NY Voodoo Macbeth, curated by David A. Bailey, De La Warr Pavilion, East Sussex, England Yes , Zwirner & Wirth, New York NY Gifts go in one direction, curated by Alexander Nagel, apexart, New York NY SUBJECT, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London CT Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York NY Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles CA Skin Is a Language, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY

2005 Shades of Black(ness), Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT Collection Remixed, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx NY Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY The Shape of Time, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN Very Early Pictures, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles CA; traveled to: Arcadia University Gallery, Glenside PA African American Art: Masterworks of Contemporary Art, , St. Louis MO Wordplay: Text and Image from 1950 to Now, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT The Painted Word: Language as Image in Modern Art, Williams Center for the Arts Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton PA Between Image and Concept: Recent Acquisitions in African American Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ Beauford Delaney in Context: Selections from the Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA A Brief History of Invisible Art, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco CA Linkages and Themes in the African Diaspora, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco CA 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 Collective Histories / Collective Memories: California Modern, Orange County Museum of Modern Art, Newport Beach CA Drawing from the Modern, 1975 - 2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY ROMANCE (a novel), curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal A Thousand Words, Inman Gallery, Houston TX Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, organized by Valerie Cassel Oliver, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX

2004 American Art on Paper from the 1960s to Present: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St Louis MO neoqueer: new visual art by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender artists, Center on Contemporary Art (COCA), Seattle WA Super-Sized: The Big Print Show, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle WA Remembering, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside CA Experiments with Truth, curated by Mark Nash, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia PA Love/Hate, From Magritte to Cattelan: Masterpieces from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, curated by Francesco Bonami Codroipo (Udine), Italy

Great White, curated by Joanna Montoya, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on- Hudson NY Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York NY Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), curated by Nancy Spector, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY Robert Colescott & Glenn Ligon from the Logan Collection, curated by Shannen Hill, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver CO

2003 The Harlem Renaissance and Its Legacy, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester MA A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL Structures of Difference, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford CT The Space Between: Artists Engaging Race and Syncretism, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA Visual Poetics: Art and the Word, Miami Art Museum, Miami FL Visualizing Identity, The Jack S Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX Drawing Modern: Works from the Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH Skin Deep, Numark Gallery, Washington D.C. Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, New York NY, curated by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis; travelled 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 Today’s Man, curated by John Connelly, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The Disembodied Spirit, curated by Alison Ferris Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick ME The Alumni Show, curated by Nina Felshin Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT Crimes and Misdemeanors, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati OH DL: The “Down Low” in Contemporary Art, Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos, New York NY The Paper Sculpture Show, Sculpture Center, Long Island City NY, organized by ICI; travelled to: Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach VA; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga TN; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem NC; the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA An American Legacy: Art from the Studio Museum, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York NY Stranger in the Village, Guild Hall, East Hampton NY, organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York NY On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia PA Family Ties, curated by Trevor Fairbrother Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude (Toward and understanding of transgenerational dialogue as a gift economy), curated by Bill Arning MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA America 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, Austin TX Fifty Years of Supporting the New: The Charles H. Carpenter Jr. Collection, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, New York NY; travelled to: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit MI; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach FL; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis MN; International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis TN; and Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts AL LIFE DEATH LOVE HATE PLEASURE PAIN: Selected works from the MCA Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL Structures of Difference, curated by Nicholas Baume, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, Champaign IL, curated by Joself Helfenstein; travelled 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 NY

Charles H. Carpenter, Jr. Collection: Fifty Years of Supporting the New, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT New York, New Work, Now!, curated by Nina Felshin ,The Currier Gallery, Manchester NH XI, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Kassel, Germany Moving Pictures, Guggenheim Museum, New York Art Downtown, Various Locations, New York NY A New York Renaissance: Masterworks from the Collection of the Whitney Museum, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy People See Paintings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL Tempo, MoMA QNS, curated by Paolo Herkenhoff Long Island City NY

2001 A Way with Words: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York NY Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Building the Collection, The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX Race in Digital Space, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge MA; travelled to: The Studio Museum in Harlem NY; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta GA Drawing on Language, SPACES, Cleveland OH Digital: Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York NY Red, Black and Green, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York NY New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY Everybody Now: the crowd in contemporary art, Hunter College Kinds of Drawing, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA Monochrome/Monochrome?, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York NY Pollock to Today: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY Song Poems, produced by Stephen Hull, Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York NY Subject: Plural, Crowds in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX Take Two/Reprise, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro, London, England

2000 Pollock to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY AutoWerke, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany 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 NY Drawings & Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York NY Dream Machines, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland; travelled: Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England; Camden Arts Centre, London, England Good Business Is the Best Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York NY 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 NY 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 Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990–99, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA Con(text): Words, Texts, and Meaning in the Permanent Collection, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York NY The Ecstatic, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York NY Calendar 2000, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York NY Drawing in the Present Tense, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Parsons School of Design, New York NY; travelled to: Julian Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Other Narratives: Fifteen Years, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston TX 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, Japan

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 NY Some Other Narratives, Artpace, San Antonio TX Spaced Out, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland CA

1998 Miami Arts Project, Miami FL 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 Postcards from Black America, Breda, De Bayerd Museum, The Netherlands Núcleo Historico, XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil, curated by Paulo Herkenhoff 100 Years of Sculpture: From Pedestal to Social, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France 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 NY 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 NY A Portrait of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA

1997 Civil Progress: Life in Black America, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle WA Blind Spot: Coming of Age, White Columns, New York NY Kimchi Xtravaganza, Korean American Museum, Los Angeles CA The Dual Muse: The Writer As Artist, The Artist As Writer, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis MO Thirty-Third Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro NC Heart, Mind, Body, Soul: American Art in the 1990's, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY La Biennale di Venezia, XLVII Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, Venice, Italy A Decade in Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY Coming of Age, White Columns, New York NY Identity Crisis: Self Portraiture at the End of the Century, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee WI; travelled to: the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO Kinds of Abstract, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA Rhapsodies in Black, Hayward Gallery, The South Bank Centre, London, England; travelled to: Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England; The Mead Gallery, Coventry, England; 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 NY Un Bel Ete, Casino Luxembourg

1996 a/drift: Scenes from a Penetrable Culture, curated by Josh Decter, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson NY On Paper II, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis MO Tangles, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles CA 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 NY; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita KS The Inner Eye: Art Beyond the Visible, Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester, England; travelled to: the Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, England; Glynn Vivan Art Gallery, Swansea, England; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, England Hotter Than July, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles CA Inclusion/Exclusion: Art in the Age of Post-Colonialism and Global Migration, Steirischer Herbst 96, Graz, Austria Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery, Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece; travelled to: Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Burning Issues: Contemporary African-American Art, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale FL Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980-1995, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY 10th Biennale of Sydney: Jurassic Technologies Revenant, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 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 NY Festival Exit, Maison des Arts de la Culture, Paris-Creteil, France Screen, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York NY Prospect '96, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Germany

1995 In a Different Light, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA Articulations: Forms of Language, Whitney Museum of American Art (organizer), Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City NY Telling Tales, The Rotunda Gallery, New York NY Face Forward: Self Portraiture in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI In the Flesh, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT 25 Americans: Painting in the 90's, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee WI Boxer, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall, England XI Mostra da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba/Mostra America, Curitiba, Brazil Configura 2: Dialog de Kulturen, Erfurt, Germany Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England Glenn Ligon, Gary Simmons, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia PA; travelled to: 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 fag-o-sites, Gallery 400, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago IL

1994 Physical Evidence, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York NY Duchamp's Leg, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; travelled to: the Center for the Fine Arts, Miami FL The Magic Magic Book, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY New Paintings, Max Protetch Gallery, New York NY Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY; travelled to: the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY; travelled 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, Canada; Illingworth Kerr Art Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada Dark o'Clock, Museu de Arte Moderna de Sâo Paulo, Sâo Paulo, Brazil; travelled to; Plug In, Video Pool, Ace Art, Winnipeg, Canada Stories, Max Protetch Gallery, New York NY Equal Rights and Justice, High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA; travelled to: The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Drama, Max Protetch Gallery, New York NY Oliver Herring, Byron Kim, Glenn Ligon, Galerie Gilles Peyroulet, Paris, France The Label Show, Contemporary Art and the Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA Don't Look Now, Thread Waxing Space, New York NY

1993 In Transit, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York NY Readymade Identities: Works of Six Artists at the Project Room, The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY Black & White: Paintings by Jerald leans, Julian Lethbridge, Glenn Ligon, David Ortins, Harvey Tulcensky, and , Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis MO The Return of the ‘Cadavre Exquis’, The Drawing Center, New York NY; travelled to: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis MO; American Center, Paris, France 42nd Art Street Project, Times Square, New York NY Markets of Resistance, White Columns, New York NY Myths and Legends As Told and Retold, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston MA Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

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 NY 1993 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY; travelled to: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea Everpresent Moment, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota FL

1992 Malcolm X: Man, Ideal, Icon, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; travelled to: 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 NY Mistaken Identities, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA; travelled to: Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria; Neues Museum Weserburg Bremenim Forum Langenstrasse, Bremen, Germany; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark Update ‘ 92, White Columns, New York, New York NY 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; travelled to: Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima City, Japan and Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City, Japan All Words Suck, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art, Hayward Gallery, The South Bank Centre, London; travelled to: Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA; travelled: Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC

1991 AIDS, A Community in Crisis, Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica NY Language: Body and Dream, PS 122, New York NY 1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming, White Columns, New York Interrogating Identity, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York; travelled to: 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 Positions of Authority, Art in General, New York NY Color Theory, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, State University of New York at Old Westbury, Old Westbury NY Text Out of Context, SoHo Center of Visual Arts, New York NY New Work, P.S. 122, New York NY

1990 Spent: Currency, Security and Art on Deposit, The New Museum of Contemporary Art at Marine Midland Bank, New York NY Works on Paper, Selena Art Gallery, Long Island University, New York NY Rutgers National ‘90: Works on Paper, Stedman Art Gallery, Camden NJ Art of Resistance, El Bohio, New York Public Mirror, Art against Racism, The Clocktower Gallery, New York NY

1989 Selections 46, The Drawing Center, New York NY The National and International Studio Artists 1989-90, PS1 Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Island NY

1985 Open Studio, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York NY

1984

Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York NY

Curation

2017 Blue Black, curated by Glenn Ligon, , St. Louis MO

Awards

2016 Visual AIDS Vanguard Award 2013 18th Annual Medal Award, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA 2012 International Association of Art Critics Award 2010 Artists Fellowship, Los Angeles CA 2009 Studio Museum’s Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, Harlem NY 2006 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan Medal for Painting, New York Academy Awards in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York 2003 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, New York 2001 German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD Fellowship, Berlin, Germany 2000 Walker Art Center Artist-in-Residence, Minneapolis MN 1998 ArtPace International Artists-in-Residence Program, San Antonio TX 1997 Foundation Grant, Painters and Sculptors Grant 1994 Rockefeller Foundation, Residential Fellowship 1991 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship, Painting 1990 Art Matters, Inc. Fellowship Dewar’s Young Artist’s Recognition Award 1989/90 P.S. 1 National and International Studio Program, The Clocktower NY 1989 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship, Drawing 1982 National Endowment for the Arts, Curatorial Internship, The Studio Museum in Harlem NY

Writings

Ligon, Glenn, “To Miss New Orleans,” Artforum, January, 2009, pp. pp.168 - 171

Ligon, Glenn, “My Felix,” Artforum, Summer 2007, pp. 125 – 128 Ligon, Glenn. "Artist Page," Future, Present, Past. Venice, Italy: 47th Biennale di Venezia, 1997 Ligon, Glenn. "Skin Tight." Boxer: An Anthology of Writings on Boxing and Visual Culture London, England: The Institute of International Visual Arts, 1996. Ligon, Glenn. "Red Portfolio." Prospect '96. Frankfurt, Germany: Frankfurt Kunstverein, 1996 Ligon, Glenn. "Memorial." In "If They Built a Memorial to the War in the Streets" by Herbert Muschamp. New York Times Sunday Magazine April 9, 1995 Ligon, Glenn, “A Feast of Scraps,” The Masculine Masquerade: Masculinity and Representation, Catalogue, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, ills, 1995, pp. 89-99 Ligon, Glenn. "Narratives." Yale Journal of Criticism Summer 1994 Ligon, Glenn. "Artist Page." Publicsfear Summer 1994 Ligon, Glenn. "Artist Page." Documents Summer 1994 Ligon, Glenn. "Artist Page." Bomb February 1994 Ligon, Glenn. "Profiles." Third Text Spring 1991 Ligon, Glenn. "Insert." Parkett 1991

Publications and Exhibition Catalogues

2016 Housing in New York: A Brief History, MoMA PS1, Long Island City NY

2015 A People on the Cover: Glenn Ligon, Ridinghouse, London, England Encounters and Collisions, Tate Publishing, London, England Apparitions: Frottages and Rubbings from 1860 to Now, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, and Menil Collection, Houston TX, 2015, pp. 18, 48 – 49, 68 Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Prestel, Munich, Germany, 2015 Collection, Broad, Los Angeles, CA, and Prestel, New York NY, 2015, pp. 2 – 3, 106 – 109 Body of Art, Phaidon, London, England 2015, p. 221 New Skin: Selections from the Tony Salame Collection, Skira Rizzoli, Milan, Italy, 2015 Collecting and Sharing: Trevor Fairbrother, John T. Kirk, and the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover NH, 2015 56th Venice Biennale, Marsilio Editori, Venice, Italy, 2015 Writers Respond: Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, 2015 Whitney Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, and Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 2015, pp. 231 – 232 Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, The Skylark Foundation, Los Angeles CA, 2015 Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, University of California Press, Oakland CA, 2015

2014 Glenn Ligon: Come Out, Ridinghouse; Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England Represent: 200 Years of African American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA, 2014 A History. Art, Architecture, Design from the 1980s Until Today, Centre Pompidou, Flammarion, Paris, France, 2014 Somos Libres II: Opere Dalla Collezione di Mario Testino, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Torino, Italy and Rizzoli, New York NY 2014

2013 Glenn Ligon: Neon, Luhring Augustine, New York NY Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL, 2013 Art & Queer Culture, published by Phaidon, London, England, 2013 Sun Ra + Ayé Aton: Space, Interiors and Exteriors, 1972, PictureBox, Brooklyn NY, 2013 On the Sleeve of the Visual: Race as Face Value, Dartmouth College Press, Hanover NH, 2013 Black is, Black Ain't, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2013

2011 Glenn Ligon: America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY Yourself in the World, Yale University Press, New Haven CT and London, England, 2011

2010 History as Art, Art as History, Routlege, New York NY 2010

2008 Figure, text by Wayne Koestenbaum, Yvon Lambert, Paris 2008 Catalogue, The 7th Gwangju Biennale, published by Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Korea 2008 Roberts, Rebbeca, MoMA: Highlights Since 1980, published by the Museum of Modern Art New York, 2008 Koestenbaum, Wayne, Glenn Ligon: Figure, published and organized by Yvon Lambert 2008 Heartney, Eleanor, Art&Today, published by Phaidon, London, England, 2008

2007 Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, published by the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, 2007, p. 317

2006 Ellipse Foundation: Contemporary Art Collection, published by Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais, Portugal, Oct 2006 No. 1: First Works by 362 Artists, edited by Francesca Richer and Matthew 220-1, Rosenzweig, published by D.A.P., 2006, p. 220-1 Catalogue, Romance (a novel), curated by Adriano Pedrosa, published by Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal, 2006, pp. 40-1 Catalogue, Dark Places, curated by Joshua Decter, published by Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California, 2006, p. 11

2005 Mahon, Alyce, Eroticism & Art, published by Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 2005, pp. 253-4 Catalogue, Drawing from the Modern, 1975 – 2005, organized by Jordan Kantor, published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp. 128 Catalogue, Glenn Ligon – Some Changes, Toronto: The Power Plant, 2005 Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Houston: The Contemporary Arts Museum, Essays by Valerie Cassel Oliver and Franklin Sirmans, p. 44 Catalogue, Getting Emotional, edited by Nicholas Baume, Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, pp. 124-5

2004 Ligon, Glenn, Text Paintings 1990-2004, Interview with Malik Gaines, published by Regen Projects, LosAngeles, 2004 Dennison, L. & Spector, N., Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present, published by the Guggenheim Museum, p. 158, ill. Grynsztejn, Madeleine. Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection. San Francisco and New York: SF MoMA and D.A.P, 2004

2003 Ross, Lauren. Fast Forward: 20 Years of White Rooms, 1983-2003. New York, New York: White Columns, 2003 Spector, Nancy, et al. Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum Collections. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2003

Tannenbaum, Judith and Marion Boulton Stroud, On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau, Philadelphia: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 2003

2001 Als, Hilton & Ligon, Glenn. "Interview." Stranger. New York: Studio Museum in Harlem, 2001 "The Autonomy of Color, and the Centerless World." Painting at the Edge of the World Minneapolis, Minnesota: Walker Art Center, 2001, pp. 93-112 Koestenbaum, Wayne. "Color Me Glenn." Coloring. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2001 Morsiani, Paola, Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art, Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum

2000 Catalogue, Auto Werke, published by Hatje Cantz, with support by BMW Financial Services North America, essay by Joshua Decter

1999 Carlozzi, Annette DiMeo, Glenn Ligon, Negotiating Small Truths, Austin: Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, pp. 70-75 Memento Vivere, Life Cycles. Leipzig, Germany, Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst Question Marks and Futures Already Alive: Glenn Ligon and Kara Walker, Together for the First Time, New York: Brent Sikkema Gallery, December 1999

1997 Kotik, Charlotta. The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Drawings by Glenn Ligon. Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1997 Sobel, Dean & Ackerman, Marc J., Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1997 Glenn Ligon 12 1996 Cooke, Lynne. "Embodiments." Jurassic Technologies Revenant. Sydney, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1996 Decter, Josh. Screen, Videocassette. New York: Friedrich Petzel Gallery, 1996 Ross, David A., Tsai, Eugenie & Drucker, Joanna. Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections from theWhitney Museum of American Art. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1996 Snyder, Jill. In The Flesh. Ridgefield, Connecticut: Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996 Spahr, P. Andrew, Wolf, Tom & Storr, Robert. Community of Creativity: A Century of Mac Dowell ColonyArtists. Hanover, New Hampshire: New England University Press, 1996 Wye, Deborah. Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980-1995. New York: The Museum of Modern Art

1995 Bailey, David A. & Mercerf, Kobena. Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference and Desire. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts and Institute of International Visual Arts, 1995 Herkenhoff, Paulo. "African Diasporas: Glenn Ligon and Fortunato Lopes da Silva." XI Mostra da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba. Curitiba, Brazil: XI Mostra da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba, 1995 Sobel, Dean. 25 Americans: Painting in the 90s. Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art Museum

1994 Castleberry, May & Jay, Ricky. The Magic Magic Book. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994 Decter, Josh. Don't Look Now. New York: Thread Waxing Space, 1994. Fairbrother, Trevor. The Label Show: Contemporary Art and the Museum. Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts, 1994. Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art,1994. Krane, Susan, ed. Equal Rights and Justice. Atlanta, Georgia: High Museum of Art and the National Black Arts Festival, 1994. Rugoff, Ralph. "Transformation Aesthetics." Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 1994. Thomas, Kendall. "Em Baixo Do Pano, Tudo Pode Acontecer: Glenn Ligon's Snapshots." Dark O'Clock. Sao Paulo, Brazil and Winnipeg, Canada: Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo and Plug In, Inc.

1993 Rosenzweig, Phyllis. Glenn Ligon: To Disembark. Brochure. Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1993 "What's White...?" 1993 Biennial Exhibition. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1993. Oliva, Achille Bonito, Krim, Mathilde, & Taylor, Elizabeth. Drawing the Line Against AIDS. New York: American Association for AIDS Research, 1993. Schaffner, Ingrid, Simic, Charles, & Caws, Marianne. The Return of the

"Cadavre Exquis." New York: The Drawing Center

1992 Ryan, Marianne. Double Take: Collective Memory and Current Art. London: Hayward Gallery, 1992 Ligon, Glenn. Good Mirrors Are Not Cheap. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, 1992 Miller-Keller, Andrea. Glenn Ligon/Matrix 120. Hartford, Connecticut: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1992 Brenson, Michael. "The Pressure of Voices." Dream Singers, Story Tellers: An African-AmericanPresence. Trenton: New Jersey State Museum, 1992. Colpitt, Frances & Plous, Phyllis. Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art. Santa Barbara, California:University Art Museum, The Site of Memory. Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art. London: The South Bank Centre, 1992 Rose, Bernice. Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawings. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1992 Solomon-Godeau, Abigail. Mistaken Identities. Santa Barbara, California: University of California Art Museum

1991 Armstrong, Richard, Hanhardt, John G., Marshall, Richard & Phillips, Lisa. 1991 Biennial Exhibition. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991 Jones, Kellie & Sokolowski, Tom. Interrogating Identity. New York University: Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, 1991

Articles and Reviews 2016 Cotter, Holland, “Looking Anew Through a Comic’s Lens,” . January 22, 2016

2015 Cooke, Lynn, “Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions,” Artforum. November 2015, pp. 29 – 295 Nelson, Solveig, “The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now,” Artforum. November 2015, pp. 298 – 299 Rosen, Miss. “Books: Glenn Ligon: A People on the Cover.” Crave Online. October 18th, 2015 Diehl, Travis, “Critics’ Picks: Glenn Ligon,” Artforum Online. October 2nd, 2015 Sumpter, Helen, “Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions,” ArtReview, Vol. 67, No. 6. September 2015, p. 152 Grant, Simon, “Inside My Head: An Interview with Glenn Ligon,” Momus Online. August 14th, 2015 Campbell, Andrianna, “500 Words: Glenn Ligon,” Artforum Online. June 5th, 2015 Carey-Kent, Paul,“Crossovers: Glenn Ligon,” Border Crossings 34, No. 133. March 2015, pp. 111–13

2011 Barrett, Terry. Making Art: Form and Meaning, New York: McGraw Hill Companies, Inc., 2011, pp. 87- 88,140-141 Cotter, Holland. “Messages That Conduct an Electric Charge,” The New York Times “Glenn Ligon: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 10 March-5 June, The Art Newspaper: The Year Ahead 2011, Issue 10, p. 37 Kastner, Jeffrey. “Glenn Ligon: AMERICA,” Artforum, January 2011, XLIX, No. 5, p. 91 Picard, Charmaine. “A man of his word: Glenn Ligon’s alternative view of American history at the Whitney,” The Art Newspaper, No. 222, March 2011, page 74 “The glittering prizes: Winners,” The Art Newspaper, No. 220, January 2011, p. 7 Vogel, Carol. “The Inside Story on Outsiderness,” The New York Times, February 27, 2011, AR1

2010 Arnason, H.H. History of Modern Art (Sixth Edition), New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc., 2010. pp. 765 766. Campagnola, Sonia. “Glenn Ligon: Regen Projects,” (review), Flash Art, March-April 2010 XLIII No.271,p.117. Desai, Dipti, Hamlin, Jessica & Mattson, Rachel, History as Art, Art as History. published by Routledge,New York, 2010, p. 10, p. 157

Drogin, David, "Glenn Ligon Interview," Museo, Issue XIV Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah. “Glenn Ligon: Regen Projects,” (review), ArtForum, March 2010. XLVIII No.7, pp.255 – 256 Ligon, Glenn, "Kelly Walker's Negro Problem," Parkett, No. 87, 2010, p. 78-87 Scott, Darieck, Extravagant Abjection, New York University Press: New York, 2010, Cover ill Row, D.K., "Beauty Amid the Upheaval," The Oregonian, Monday February 22, 2010, p. B4-B5 Thorne, Sam, "Afro Modern," Frieze, April 2010, pp. 112-113

2009 Art and Text. London: Black Dog Publishing. pp. 91, 114, 146, 232-233 Coburn, Tyler, “Glenn Ligon: I Am,” Art Review, January/February 2009, Issue 29, pp. 56-65Drohojowska- Philp, Hunter. “Glenn Ligon gets Obama’s vote,” The , December 11,2009. Garcia, Carnelia. “A Sea of Ink,” Art in Auction, December 2009, page 32 Knight, Christopher. “Glenn Ligon at Regen Projects,” latimesblogs.latimes.com, December 25, 2009 Ligon, Glenn, “To Miss New Orleans, ArtForum, January 2009, XLVII No 5, pp. 168 – 171, ill. Moran, Jason. “Glenn Ligon,” Interview, June/July 2009, pp. 82-85 Saltz, Jerry. “Obama’s Startling Art,” New York Magazine, October Vogel, Carol. “A Bold and Modern White House,” The New York Times, October 7, 2009, page A14

2008 Bedford, Christopher, Artforum, January 2008, p. 288-289 Cieply, Michael & Barnes, Brooks, “Art Fair as Outlet Mall at Art Basel Miami Beach,” The New York Times, December 6, 2008, p. C1, C8, Copeland, Huey, “The Blackness of Blackness,” ArtForum, October 2008, XLVII, No. 2, p. 151-154 Damiani, Didier, artpress, January 2008, p77-78 Davies, Jon, “The Living Ghosts of US History,” Xtra, Thursday, September 11 Desclaux, Vanessa, Untitled, Spring 2007, Reviews, p. 16-17 Goddard, Peter, “Films Future Gets the Silent Treatment,” TheStar.com, September 13

2007 Jentleson, Katherine, "Los Angeles: Black Humor," Art + Auction, October 2007, p. 60 Knight, Christopher, "Stencil Work a Nod to ," Los Angeles Times, November 30, 2007 Koestenbaum, Wayne and Glenn Ligon, " conversation, "Hotel Blues," Modern Painters, May 2007, pp.72-79 Ligon, Glenn, "My Felix," Artforum, Summer 2007, pp. 125 – 128 Machida, Nico, "Degrees of Enchantment," artslant.com, November 4, 2007 Nichols, Matthew Guy, "Ligon's Color Theory," Art In America, March 2007, pp. 154-159, 189

2006 Bezzubov, Sasha, "In the Studio: Glenn Ligon," Art + Auction, January 2006, pp. 40-44 Meyer, Richard, "Light It Up, or How Glenn Ligon Got Over," Artforum, May 2006, cover, pp. 240 – 247 O’Reilly, Time Out London, November 8-15, 2006, p. 46 Smith, Roberta, "Menace, Glitter and Rock in Visions of Dystopia," The New York Times, December 29,2006, pp. B37, B42 Stocchi, Francesco, "Glenn Ligon: Thomas Dane," artforum.com, November 3, 2006

2005 Demos, T.J., "'Experiments with Truth'," ArtForum, February 2005, p. 167 Goddard, Peter, “More Thought than Shock,” Toronto Star, June 30, 2005, p. G5 Jana, Reena, "Self-Portrait as Stevie Wonder," art on paper, January/February 2005, pp. 38-9 Lynn, Victoria, “Glenn Ligon,” ArtReview, October / November 2005, p. 126 Milroy, Sarah, “Black on White: and Brilliant All Over,” Globe and Mail, July 5, 2005, p. R1 Sandals, Leah, “Glenn Ligon,” Flash Art, October 2005, pp. 126-7

2004 Burton, Johanna, “Glenn Ligon: D’Amelio Terras,” ArtForum, March 2004, p. 184 Knight, Christopher, “The canvas speaks volumes,” Los Angeles Times, October 8, 2004, p. E20 Ligon, Glenn, “David Hammons and the Poetics of Emptiness,” ArtForum, September, 2004, pp. 242 –249 Pollack, Barbara. “What Lies Beneath,” Time Out NY, January 1-8, 2004, p. 52 Pollack, Barbara, “Glenn Ligon at D’Amelio Terras,” Art in America, May 2004, pp. 153 – 154 Woodward, Richard B., "Battleground Art Revisiting the Culture Wars in Cincinnati," The New York Times,September 5, 2004, p. 24

2003 Cotter, Holland. “Cameras As Accomplices, Helping Race Divide America Against Itself,” The New York Times, December 19, 2003, p. E37, ill. Firmin, Sandra. “Review.” Art Papers, November-December 2003, pp. 48-49, ill. “Glenn Ligon,” The New Yorker, December 22 & 29, 2003, p. 34 Gopnik, Blake. “Art and Race, Making a Memorable Appearance.” The Washington Post, April 6, 2003, p.G1 Mirapaul, Matthew. “Artists Cast a Wary but Interested Eye on the Web.” The New York Times, March 31, 2003, p. E4

2001 Firstenberg, Lauri. "Neo-Archival and Textual Strategies: An Interview with Glenn Ligon." Art Journal, Spring 2001, pp. 42 - 47 Foret, Claire. "Glenn Ligon's Full Up and Byron Kim's Emptied Out." NY Arts Magazine, June 2001, p. 79 “Glenn Ligon,” The New Yorker, May 28, 2001, p. 25 Honigman, Ana. "Glenn Ligon." Flash Art, July-September 2001, p. 121 Morgan, Robert C. "Glenn Ligon." Tema Celeste, Summer, 2001, p. 90 Schwabsky, Barry. “Glenn Ligon.” Artforum, October 2001 Smith, Roberta. “Glenn Ligon,” The New York Times, May 18, 2001, p. E30 Smith, Roberta. "Glenn Ligon – Colored," The New York Times, May 11, 2001, p. E35

2000 Brochure, “Glenn Ligon: Circa 1971, ’72, or ’73,” Interview with Brett Littman, Dieu Donné Lab Grant Program, New York: Dieu Donné Papermill, Inc., 2004

1998 Brochure, Arning, Bill, “Glenn Ligon,” Glenn Ligon 98.1, San Antonio: ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 1998 Cotter, Holland. "Stories About Race, Politics, and Himself" The New York Times, February 1, 1998, pp. 48 – 49 Koestenbaum, Wayne. "Best of 1998." Artforum, December 1998, pp. 100-101

1997 Haye, Christian. "Sweet Nothings." Frieze, September-October 1997, p. 81 Ligon, Glenn. "Study for Frankenstein #1 (Study #2)." New Observations, Spring l997 Ligon, Glenn. "Artist Page." Future, Present, Past. Venice, Italy: 47th Biennale di Venezia, 1997 Meyer, Richard. "Glenn Ligon: The Limits of Visibility." Art + Text, August-October 1997, pp. 32-35. Schwabsky, Barry. "Glenn Ligon, Brooklyn Museum." Artforum, January 1997

1996 Aukeman, Anastasia. "Glenn Ligon at Max Protetch." Art in America February 1996 Colby, Joy Hakanson. "Ligon's 'autobiography' packs a powerful punch." Detroit News, April 18, 1996 Cotter, Holland, "The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Drawings by Glenn Ligon." New York Times, October18, 1996 Davies, Suzanne and Lynne Cooke. "The Biennale Explained." Art Monthly, September 1996, pp. 7-9 Izdat, Sam. "Glenn Ligon." Poliester, Winter 1996-97 Gaines, Charles. "Hotter Than July." Art + Text, October 1996, p. 84 Ligon, Glenn. "Red Portfolio." Prospect '96. Frankfurt, Germany: Frankfurt Kunstverein, 1996 Ligon, Glenn. "Skin Tight." Boxer: An Anthology of Writings on Boxing and Visual Culture, London,England: The Institute of International Visual Arts, 1996 Schwendener, Martha. "Glenn Ligon, Max Protetch." Flash Art January-February 199 Schwabsky, Barry. "Glenn Ligon, Brooklyn Museum." Artforum, January 1997 Smith, Roberta. "Screen," The New York Times, February 2, 1996 Tate, Greg. "Bring the Word." Village Voice September 17, 1996

1995 Brody, Jackie. “Glenn Ligon, Skin Tight (1995)." Print Collector's September - October, 1995 Burchard, Hank. "Angry Voices, Angry Times, So-So Art." Washington Post, October 20, 1995, p. 60 Halle, Howard "Glenn Ligon, Photos and Notes." Time Out New York October 18 - 25, 1995 Kent, Sarah. "Body Politic." Time Out London May 24 - 31, 1995, p. 49 Ligon, Glenn. "Memorial." In "If They Built a Memorial to the War in the Streets" by Herbert Muschamp

New York Times Sunday Magazine April 9, 1995 Ligon, Glenn, “A Feast of Scraps,” The Masculine Masquerade: Masculinity and Representation, Catalogue, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, pp. 89-99 McQuaid, Cate. "Boxed In: Glenn Ligon talks about Ali, Tyson, and O.J." Boston Phoenix September 15, 1995 Nusbaum, Eliot. "Ligon Show Spotlights Art's 'Human Toll.” Des Moines Register, January 29,1995. Sladen, Mark. "Black on Black." Art Monthly July-August 1995, pp. 13-15 Thorson, Alice. "Boxes of Blackness." Kansas City Star December 10, 1995

1994 Converse, Elizabeth. "Possible Identities." Artweek May 19, 1994, pp. 24-25. “Glenn Ligon,Narratives (1993)," The Print Collector's Newsletter January - February, 1994, p. 226. Ligon, Glenn. "Artist Page." Bomb February 1994. Ligon, Glenn. "Artist Page." Documents Summer 1994. Ligon, Glenn. "Artist Page." Publicsfear Summer 1994. Ligon, Glenn. "Narratives." Yale Journal of Criticism Summer 1994. McEvilley, Thomas. "Dream Singers, Story Tellers." Artforum March 1994. Sundell, Margaret. "On Passing." Documents Summer 1994

1993 “Glenn Ligon, Untitled (Two White/Two Black) (1992)." Print Collector's Newsletter March-April, 1993. Hagen, Charles. "When All of New York Is a Gallery to Browse." New York Times June 13, 1993. Lewis, Jo Ann. "Self-Portrait of the Artist as a Young Black Man." Washington Post November 14, 1993. Merril, Kathleen and Lawrence Rinder. “Sophie Calle: Proofs.” Dartmouth College: Hanover, NewHampshire. 1993, p. 8. Myers, Terry R. "Never Yell 'Fire!' in a Crowded ." New Art Examiner May 1993 Pagel, David. "'Everyday' Art." Los Angeles Times December 30, l993 Rugoff, Ralph. "Panic in the Tower: Who's Afraid of the Whitney." LA Weekly May 7, 1993 "Smart Stuff Of One Self." The Washington Post November 26, 1993, p. 73 Smith, Roberta. "A 24-Hour-a-Day Show on Gaudy, Bawdy 42nd Street." New York Times July 30, 1993. Smith, Roberta, "At the Whitney, a Biennial with a Social Conscience." New York Times March 5, 1993

1992 Alemayehu, Louis, Susan Robeson, David Mura, Don Belton, Nancy Roth, Sal Gillick, Liam. "Doubletake." Art Monthly March 1992, p. 14-15 Johnson, Ken. "Glenn Ligon at Max Protetch Gallery." Art in America November 1992, p. 131 Knight, Christopher. "An Ambitious Collection of Conceptualism." Los Angeles Times January 11,1992. McNally, Owen. "Beyond Black and White." Hartford Courant August 31, 1992 Salerno, and Patrice Koelsch. "Feature." Artpaper February 1992, pp. 13-15

1991 Conley, Kevin. "The Painted Word." Departures December 1991-January 1992 Harrison, Helen. "Skin Pigmentation as a Determinant of Attitudes." New York Times December 1, 1991,Long Island edition. Kimmelman, Michael. "At the Whitney, a Biennial That's Eager to Please." New York Times April 19,1991 Larson, Kay. "Interrogating Identity." New York Magazine July 29, 1991, p. 50 Ligon, Glenn. "Profiles." Third Text Spring 1991. Ligon, Glenn. "Insert." Parkett 1991 Nesbitt, Lois. "Interrogating Identity." Artforum Summer 1991, p. 115 Smith, Roberta, “Lack of Location is My Location” The New York Times, June 16, 1991 Suznobu, Yoshi. "The Art of Quotation." Marie Claire September 1991, Japanese edition Temin, Christine. "Interrogating Identity: The View from 'Outside.'" Boston Globe, August 13, 1991

1990 Spent: Currency, Security and Art on Deposit, The New Museum of Contemporary Art at Marine Midland Bank, New York NY Works on Paper, Selena Art Gallery, Long Island University, New York NY Rutgers National ‘90: Works on Paper, Stedman Art Gallery, Camden NJ Art of Resistance, El Bohio, New York Public Mirror, Art against Racism, The Clocktower Gallery, New York NY

1989

Selections 46, The Drawing Center, New York NY The National and International Studio Artists 1989-90, PS1 Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Island NY

1985 Open Studio, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York NY

1984 Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York NY

Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York , Baltimore, Maryland Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama The Bohen Foundation, New York Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, California Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, New York Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Texas Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, California Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO Tate Modern, London, UK Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minesotta Whitney Museum of American Art, New York