Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon (* 1960 in Bronx , New York City ) is an American conceptual artist .
life and work
Glenn Ligon graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and was a student at Wesleyan University in Middletown . He graduated in 1982 with a bachelor's degree . Until 1985 he participated in the Independent Study Program Of The Whitney Museum of American Art . In 1989 he received the National Endowment for the Arts . In 2016, Lindon was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Ligon combines text, painting and photography. Recurring themes are language, skin color, sexuality, racism and various questions of homosexual, black identity. Ligon's text images leave the viewer in the dark as to whether he is reading or seeing. He is best known for images created since the late 1980s using fragments of text from writings and speeches by various characters including Jean Genet , Zora Neale Hurston , Jesse Jackson and Richard Pryor .
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 2012: America Whitney Museum of American Art
- 2012: America Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- 2014: Camden Arts Center , London
Group exhibitions
- 1991, 1993: Whitney Biennial , New York City
- 1996: Biennale of Sydney , Sydney
- 1997: Biennale di Venezia , Venice
- 2000, 2008: Gwangju Biennale , Gwangju
- 2002: Documenta11 , Kassel
- 2014: Berlin Biennale , Berlin
Web links
- "The art world is not a utopian open space ..." Glenn Ligon's AMERICA - in: Deutsche Bank ArtMag 67
- Rain Projects Glenn Ligon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Documenta11_Plattform5: Exhibition. Catalog ; Ostfildern-Ruit 2002, ISBN 3-7757-9085-3 (German), page 146
- ↑ Guggenheim Glenn Ligon accessed on January 26, 2019 (English)
- ↑ The New York Times, Carol Vogel, February 24, 2011 The Inside Story on Outsiderness accessed November 26, 2018 (English)
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter L. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
- ^ Whitney Museum of American Art Glenn Ligon accessed on November 26, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ligon, Glenn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American concept artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bronx , New York City |