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25.8.22 - Frieze Seoul
Thomas Dane Gallery at Frieze Seoul
Stand: A16
Showing works by Hurvin Anderson, Lynda Benglis, Walead Beshty, Glenn Ligon, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Alexandre da Cunha, Anya Gallaccio, Anthea Hamilton, Barbara Kasten, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Luisa Lambri, Glenn Ligon, Steve McQueen, Jean-Luc Moulène, Catherine Opie, Amie Siegel, Akram Zaatari.
Preview days: 2 - 3 September
Public days: 4 - 5 September
513 Yeongdong-daero
Gangnam-gu
Seoul
South Korea
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31.1.22 - Glenn Ligon, 'An Open Letter' at Thomas Dane Gallery in London
Glenn Ligon
‘An Open Letter’
Exhibition dates: 4 February - 2 April 2022
Thomas Dane Gallery
11 Duke Street, St. James's
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21.1.22 - Glenn Ligon, 'An Open Letter' at Thomas Dane Gallery
Glenn Ligon
‘An Open Letter’
Exhibition dates: 4 February - 2 April 2022
Thomas Dane Gallery
11 Duke Street, St. James's
London, SW1
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20.10.21 - Glenn Ligon is one of New York Times' 2021 'The Greats'
Glenn Ligon is featured in the 2021 New York Times’ T Magazine The Greats issue.
“In 1996, the artist Glenn Ligon made his first “Stranger in the Village” painting, stenciling fragments of James Baldwin’s 1953 essay on a gessoed canvas with oil stick, black on black: a visual play on Baldwin’s words, the blackness literally hard to read. The essay, one of the writer’s most famous, recounts his experiences at age 27 in the Swiss hamlet of Leukerbad, where he had been staying with his boyfriend while finishing his first novel. “It did not occur to me — possibly because I am an American — that there could be people anywhere who had never seen a Negro,” he writes. The alienation Baldwin evokes is total, the simple racism of the village becoming a lens through which he sees with fresh clarity the more elaborated and systematized version of it back home. “In the beginning, it was not only wanting to be with Baldwin but wanting to be Baldwin,” says Ligon.
“This intense identification with his queerness, with his Blackness, but also his engagement with what it means to live in America. In some ways it’s less about the specifics of the words, because I’d always taken his words and made them abstract.” Now that Ligon is 61 and one of the most celebrated artists of our time, he says it took him this long to be able to confront the text of “Stranger in the Village” in its entirety. Over the years, Ligon has often been asked the question of whether he considers himself “a political artist” — which now seems preposterously naïve in its presumption of a neutral ground. “When I first started showing in the ’90s,” he says, people would say, “‘Oh, your work is about your Black identity.’ And I was like, ‘That’s not a well that you just dip in and drink from.’”
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12.05.2021 - Portals, a collaboration between NEON and the Hellenic Parliament
59 artists from 27 countries including 15 new site-specific works commissioned by NEON will be featured in the group exhibition Portals, opening on 11 June in the renovated spaces of the former Public Tobacco Factory – Hellenic Parliament Library & Printing House, as part of the collaboration between the Hellenic Parliament and NEON.
The timing is highly appropriate, as we commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, while at the same time countries and societies all over the world are reeling from the pandemic. Within this framework, Portals aspires to convey the messages, ideas and visions of contemporary artistic creation, investigating the new reality revealed through the prism of change and disruption. The exhibition is curated by Elina Kountouri, Director of NEON, and Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.The exhibition takes place in the NEON-renovated building of the former Public Tobacco Factory, which emerges as a modern cultural hub, open to all. In this space, artists from both Greece and across the world express the pluralism of ideas and address the concept of the collective and our cultural understanding of history and politics, public space and our communal past, present and future.
The exhibition is inspired by an article from 2020 by the novelist Arundhati Roy, on the Financial Times on 3 April 2020, who sees the pandemic as a “portal, a gateway between one world and the next”. Acknowledging that the rupture created by the pandemic individually and collectively opens a portal, it is up to us to negotiate our transition through it.
The exhibition explores contemporary reality and pays tribute to a world in need of healing and unity.
Participating Artists
Nikos Alexiou, El Anatsui, Dimitrios Antonitsis, Kutluğ Ataman, Kostas Bassanos, Vlassis Caniaris, Joana Choumali, Anastasia Douka, Eirene Efstathiou, Brendan Fernandes, Apostolos Georgiou, Jeffrey Gibson, Robert Gober, Vangelis Gokas, Sonia Gomes, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Shilpa Gupta, Elif Kamisli, Kapwani Kiwanga, Panos Kokkinias, Chrysanthi Koumianaki, Jannis Kounellis, Louise Lawler, Glenn Ligon, Liliane Lijn, Maria Loizidou, Tala Madani, Teresa Margolles, Steve McQueen, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Marisa Merz, Ad Minoliti, Alex Mylona, Nikos Navridis, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Duro Olowu, Maria Papadimitriou, Dimitris Papaioannou, Cornelia Parker, Adam Pendleton, Solange Pessoa, Francis Picabia, Gala Porras-Kim, Michael Rakowitz, Ed Ruscha, Dana Schutz, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Elias Sime, Christiana Soulou, Do Ho Suh, Anna Tsouhlarakis, Alexandros Tzannis, Adriana Varejão, Erika Verzutti, Adrián Villar Rojas , Danh Võ, Daphne Wright, Myrto Xanthopoulou, Billie Zangewa.
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12.05.2020 - Glenn Ligon: Instagram Live Conversation with Scott Rothkopf, Whitney Museum
Glenn Ligon: Instagram Live Conversation with Scott Rothkopf, Whitney Museum
As part of a new Instagram live conversation series, Glenn Ligon will be in conversation with Nancy and Steve Crown Family Chief Curator, Scott Rothkopf to share museum highlights, discuss current times and consider favourite artworks.
Wednesday 12 May, 7pm EST
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12.02.2020 - Thomas Dane Gallery at Frieze LA 2020
Thomas Dane Gallery at Frieze LA 2020
Drawing(s)
Thomas Dane Gallery
Stand: C08
Featuring works by: Terry Adkins, Hurvin Anderson, Walead Beshty, Lynda Benglis, Cecily Brown, Anya Gallaccio, Arturo Herrera, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Michael Landy, Bob Law, Glenn Ligon, Lari Pittman, Amy Sillman, Caragh Thuring and Akram Zaatari.
Preview: 13 February 2020
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30.01.2020 - Glenn Ligon: Artist Talk, The Menil Collection
Glenn Ligon: Artist Talk, The Menil Collection, Texas
Glenn Ligon delivers an Artist Talk on occasion of the Menil’s recent acquisition of his work, Untitled (Orpheus and Eurydice). Ligon discusses the concept of America in his work, from his text-based neon sculptures that illuminate words, phrases, and sentences to his highly textured language-based paintings that draw their content from American history, popular culture, and literary works by writers such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Gertrude Stein, and Jean Genet, among others.
Friday, 31 January
6:00-7:00pm
Main Building
The Menil Collection
1533 Sul Ross Street
Houston, Texas
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02.12.2019 - Glenn Ligon: Lecture, de la Cruz Collection, Miami
Glenn Ligon: Lecture, de la Cruz Collection, Miami
Monday, 2 December, 8pm
de la Cruz Collection
23 NE 41st St
Miami
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13.09.2019 - Glenn Ligon: The Seventh Continent, 16th Istanbul Biennial
Glenn Ligon: The Seventh Continent, 16th Istanbul Biennial
Glenn Ligon's contributions to the Biennial pay tribute to US author and activist James Baldwin’s life in Istanbul. One of the works Ligon presents is Sedat Pakay’s 1973 filmic portrait of Baldwin, From Another Place, which the artist has subtitled in Turkish for the first time. In two related videos, the artist pairs crowd scenes shot in Taksim Square with music from contemporary experimental musicians. Accompanying these videos are two date neons and the newest in a series of sculptures that display the word ‘America’. Ligon has installed these using mahyas, strings of lamps or lights strung between minarets on mosques during Ramadan, that spell out messages to the faithful. The work will change in appearance every two weeks during the exhibition.
Image: still from James Baldwin 'From Another Place'. Courtesy of © Hudson Film Works II and sedatpakay.com.
Istanbul Foundation for Arts and Culture
Nejat Eczacıbaşı Building
Sadi Konuralp Caddesi, No: 5
Şişhane 34433 Istanbul14 September - 10 November 2019
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11.06.2019 - Anthea Hamilton, Glenn Ligon, Hurvin Anderson, Steve McQueen: Get Up, Stand Up, Now, Somerset House, London
Anthea Hamilton, Glenn Ligon, Hurvin Anderson, Steve McQueen: Get Up, Stand Up, Now, Somerset House, London
A major new exhibition celebrating the past 50 years of Black creativity in Britain and beyond.
West Wing Galleries
Somerset House
Strand
London
12 June - 15 September 2019
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05.06.2019 - Thomas Dane Gallery at Art Basel
Art Basel - Stand: R18
Featuring works by: Terry Adkins, Hurvin Anderson, Lynda Benglis, Walead Beshty, John Gerrard, Anthea Hamilton, Arturo Herrera, Barbara Kasten, Glenn Ligon, Jean-Luc Moulène, Caragh Thuring, Kelley Walker, and Akram Zaatari.
Preview: 11-12 June 2019
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27.03.2019 - Thomas Dane Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong
Art Basel Hong Kong - Stand: 1C02
Featuring works by: Hurvin Anderson, Lynda Benglis, Anya Gallaccio, John Gerrard, Arturo Herrera, Phillip King, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Bob Law, Glenn Ligon, Jean-Luc Moulène, Xie Nanxing, Albert Oehlen and Akram Zaatari.
Preview: 27-28 March
Public days: 29-31 March
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27.03.2019 - Glenn Ligon: In Conversation with Donatien Grau and Anne Lafont, Institut national d'historie de l'art
Glenn Ligon: In Conversation with Donatien Grau and Anne Lafont, Institut national d'historie de l'art
Following the opening of Glenn Ligon's 'Some Black Parisians' at the Musée d'Orsay, Glenn Ligon will be in conversation with Donatien Grau, head of contemporary programs at Musée d’Orsay, and Anne Lafont, Director of Studies at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
Galerie Colbert, Auditorium
Institut national d'histoire de l'art
6, rue des Petits-Champs ou 2, rue Vivienne
75002 ParisWednesday 27 March 2019
6:30pm
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26.03.2019 - Glenn Ligon: Some Black Parisians, Musée d'Orsay
Glenn Ligon: Some Black Parisians, Musée d'Orsay
Ligon's new commission from Musée d'Orsay, Some Black Parisians, consists of 12 large scale neons which highlight the names of some of the models, performers and writers who appear in important French works of art from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Musée d'Orsay
Allée centrale des sculptures1 Rue de la Légion d'Honneur,
75007 Paris
26 March - 21 July 2019
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12.02.2019 - Glenn Ligon: Selections from the Marciano Collection, Los Angeles
Glenn Ligon: Selections from the Marciano Collection
Marciano Art Foundation
4357 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
12 February - 5 May 2019
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07.02.2019 - Glenn Ligon: Artist Talk, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Glenn Ligon: Artist Talk at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Glenn Ligon will discuss his practice which has pursued critical perspectives of American history since the 1980s. This talk will highlight one of VMFA’s recent acquisition, A Small Band, currently on view in the Cochrane Atrium.
Leslie Cheek Theater
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
200 N. Boulevard
Richmond, Virginia
Thursday, 7 February 2019
6:30 - 7:30pm
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15.01.2019 - Glenn Ligon: Traction: Art Talk with Glenn Ligon, University of California, Santa Cruz
Glenn Ligon: Traction: Art Talk with Glenn Ligon at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)
453 Kerr Road
Santa Cruz
California 95064
Tuesday 15 January 2019
7-9pm
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14.01.2019 - Glenn Ligon: To be a Negro in this country is really never to be looked at, Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery, Washington
Glenn Ligon: To be a Negro in this country is really never to be looked at.
Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery, Washington
24 January - 7 April 2019
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15.11.2018 - Glenn Ligon: 'The Artist's Voice', in conversation with Jason Moran
Talk: 'The Artist's Voice', Glenn Ligon in conversation with Jason Moran, jazz pianist
ICA Boston, Boston MA
15 November 2018, 7pm
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Blue Black Curated by Glenn Ligon at Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis
Blue Black Curated by Glenn Ligon
Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis
9 June - 7 October, 2017
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Glenn Ligon to be honoured at Nottingham Contemporary’s Inaugural Gala Dinner
Inaugural Fundraising Gala Dinner
Nottingham Contemporary
28 April, 2017
Nottingham Contemporary will honour contemporary artist Glenn Ligon as one of the most important artists of his generation at their Inaugural Fundraising Gala Dinner.
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Lynda Benglis, Glenn Ligon, Amy Sillman and Kelley Walker: Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age at Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Painting 2.o:Expression in the Information Age
14 November, 2015 - 30 April, 2016
Museum Brandhorst
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Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions at Tate Liverpool
Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions
June 30 - October 18, 2015
Tate Liverpool
One of the most significant American artists of his generation creates an autobiographical art history, bringing together artworks he references, and his own work.
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Walead Beshty, Glenn Ligon and Steve McQueen: Venice Biennale 2015
Congratulations to Walead Beshty, Glenn Ligon and Steve McQueen on their participation in
All the World’s Futures—curated by Okwui Enwezor, 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
9 May - 22 November, 2015
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Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions at Nottingham Contemporary
Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions
April 3 - June 11, 2015
Nottingham Contemporary
One of the most significant American artists of his generation creates an autobiographical art history, bringing together artworks he references, and his own work.
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Glenn Ligon: Call and Response
Glenn Ligon: Call and Response
October 10 2014- January 11, 2015
Camden Arts Centre, London
Over the autumnal months, Camden Arts Centre presents Glenn Ligon: Call and Response, the first exhibition in a UK public gallery for the celebrated American artist. -
Glenn Ligon at the Berlin Biennale
Berlin Biennale
May 29- August 3, 2014
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Glenn Ligon: winner of the 18th annual Medal Award
Awarded for the first time in 1996, the annual Medal Award of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (SMFA) is a prize rewarding exceptional artists and important art supporters for their involvement and influence in the art world. This year, the SMFA will award contemporary artist Glenn Ligon during a ceremony scheduled for 20 May 2013.
The artist is known for his works using different media, namely painting, neon lights, installations, videos and printing that explore the topics of sexuality, depiction, race or language. He uses suggestive texts, quotations issued from culturally and historically important publications of artists such as James Baldwin, Jean Genet and Zora Neale Hurston. Through his work, Ligon explores the cultural heritage of America and replaces it with the context of contemporary life.
Born in 1960 in Bronx, Glenn Ligon currently lives and works in New York. He graduated from the Wesleyan University in 1982. He had solo shows, namely at the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington (1993), at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (1996), at the St. Louis Art Museum (2000), at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2001), at the Dia Center for the Arts in New York (2003) and at the Power Plant in Toronto (2005). He has also exhibited internationally on the occasion of big group events.