Glenn Ligon
Bibliography
Selected Monographs and Solo Exhibition Catalogues
2019
Untitled (America)/ Debris Field/ Synecdoche/ Notes for a Poem on the Third World. Text by Molesworth, Helen, Robin Coste Lewis, Hamza Walker and Glenn Ligon. Los Angeles: Regen Projects, 2019
2018
Debris Field/Notes for a Poem on the Third World/Soleil Nègre. Text by Sara Nadal-Melsió with poems by Gregg Bordowitz. Paris: Galerie Chantal Crousel, 2018
Glenn Ligon: Untitled (I Am a Man). Text by Gregg Bordowitz. London: Afterall, 2018
2016
Negro Sunshine. Tokyo: Rat Hole Gallery, 2016
2015
Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions. Texts by Gregg Bordowitz, Alex Farquharson, Glenn Ligon, and Francesco Manacorda. London: Tate Publishing, 2015
2014
Glenn Ligon: Come Out. Text by Megan Ratner. London: Ridinghouse.
2013
Glenn Ligon: Neon. Text by Glenn Ligon and Jason Moran. New York: Luhring Augustine.
2011
Rothkopf, Scott ed. Glenn Ligon: AMERICA. Texts by Hilton Als, Okwui Enwezor, Saidiya Hartman, Bennett Simpson, Franklin Sirmans, and Scott Rothkopft. Interview with Glenn Ligon by Thelma Golden. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, distributed by Yale University Press.
2008
Glenn Ligon: Figure/Paysage/Marine. Text by Wayne Koestenbaum. Paris: Galerie Yvon Lambert, 2008
2005
Baerwaldt, Wayne and Thelma Golden eds. Glenn Ligon – Some Changes. Texts by Darby English, Wayne Koestenbaum, Huey Copeland, and Mark Nash. Interview with Glenn Ligon and Stephen Andrews. Toronto: The Power Plant, 2005
2004
Glenn Ligon: Text Paintings: 1990–2004. Interview with Glenn Ligon and Malik Gaines. Los Angeles: Regen Projects, 2004
2001
Coloring: New Work by Glenn Ligon. Texts by Wayne Koestenbaum and Olukemi Ilesanmi. Interview with Joan Rothfuss, Olukemi Ilesanmi, and Glenn Ligon. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2001
1998
Glenn Ligon: Unbecoming. Texts by Judith Tannenbaum, Richard Meyer, and Thelma Golden. Interview with Glenn Ligon and Byron Kim. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Pennsylvania, 1998
Selected Books and Group Exhibition Catalogues
2020
Chambers, Eddie. The Routledge Companion to African American Art History. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020.
Elstob, Isobel. "The End Is the Beginning and Lies Far Ahead." Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020 pp. 233-248.
2019
Bedford, Christopher and Katy Siegel. Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art, The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2019
English, Darby and Charlotte Barat. Among Others: Blackness at MoMA. New York: MoMA, 2019
Mukherjee, Roopali, Sarah Banet-Weiser and Herman Grey, eds. Racism Postrace. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019
Weinberg, Jonathan. Art After Stonewall. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2019
2018
Boris, Stacy, ed. Art AIDS America Chicago. Chicago: Alphawood Foundation, 2018
Cafritz, Peggy Cooper. Fired Up! Ready to Go! Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2018
Naeem, Asma. Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now. Washington DC: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 2018
2017
Coppel, Stephen, Catherine Daunt and Susan Tallman. American dream: from pop to present. London: Thames and Hudson, 2017
Gaines, Malik. Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible. New York: New York University Press, 2017
2016
English, Darby. 1971: A Year in the Life of Color. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016
Goodyear, Anne Collins. This is a Portrait If I Say So: Re-imagining Representation in American Art, 1912-Today. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016
Martin, Courtney J., ed. Four Generations The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co, 2016
2015
Beckwith, Naomi and Dieter Roelstraete. The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015
Hochdrfer, Achim, et al. Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age. New York: Prestel, 2015
Phaidon Editors. The Body of Art. London: Phaidon Press Ltd, 2015
2014
Gaitán, Juan. 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Ostfilderum: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014
Macel, Christine, ed. A History: Art, Architecture, Design from the 1980s Until Today. Paris: Centre Pompidou, Flammarion, 2014
Rankine, Claudia. Citizen An American Lyric. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2014
2013
Copeland, Huey. "Glenn Ligon and the Matter of Fugitivity." in Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery and the Sites of Blackness In Multicultural America. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013 pp. 108-150
Lord, Catherine and Richard Meyer. Art & Queer Culture. London: Phaidon, 2013
Walker, Hamza, ed. Black Is, Black Ain’t. Chicago: The Renaissance Society, 2013
2012
Rosenthal, Mark. Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012
Rugoff, Ralph. Invisible: Art About the Unseen 1957-2012. London: Hayward Publishing, 2012
Sollins, Susan and Susan Dowling. Art21: Art in the 21st Century, Volume 6. Produced by Susan Sollins and Eve Moros Ortega. PBS video.
2011
Birnbaum, Daniel et al. Defining Contemporary Art–25 years in 200 pivotal artworks. London: Phaidon, 2011
Koestenbaum, Wayne. Humiliation. New York: Picador, 2011
Touré. Who's afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now. New York: Free Press, 2011
2010
Cooke, Lynne, Douglas Crimp, Kristin Poor. Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the present. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, 2010
Katz, Jonathan D. and David C. Ward. Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2010
Scott, Darieck. Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination. New York: New York University Press, 2010
2009
Beckwith, Naomi. 30 Seconds Off an Inch. New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2009
Evans, David. Appropriation. London: Whitechapel Gallery; Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009
Rattemeyer, Christian. Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2009
2008
Enwezor, Okwui. Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art. New York: International Center for Photography; Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2008
The 7th Gwangju Biennale. Gwangju, South Korea: Gwangju Biennale Foundation, 2008
Rattemeyer, Christian. Lines, Grids, Stains, Words: Minimal Art Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2008
2007
Davidson, Susan. Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation. London: Merrell; New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007
English, Darby. "Painting Problems." in How to See A Work of Art in Total Darkness. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007 pp. 200-54
Pasternak, Anne, Michael Brenson, and Ruth A Peltason. Creative Time: The Book: 33 Years of Public Art in New York. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007
2006
Cooke, Lynne. Jurassic Technologies Revenant. Sydney: The Biennial, 2006
Ellipse Foundation. Contemporary Art Collection. Canéjan, France: Ellipse Foundation Contemporary, 2006
Tawadros, Gilane. Brighton Photo Biennial. Brighton: Photoworks / Brighton Photo Biennial, 2006
2005
Baume, Nicholas, ed. Getting Emotional. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 2005
Kantor, Jordan. Drawing from the Modern, 1975–2005. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005
Oliver, Valerie Cassel. Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 2005
2004
Bois, Yve-Alain, and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh et al. Art Since 1900. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004
Dennison, Lisa and Nancy Spector. Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2004
Nash, Mark. Experiments with Truth. Philadelphia: The Fabric Workshop and Museum, 2004
2003
Dennison, Lisa, Nancy Spector, and Joan Young. Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum Collections. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; London: Thames & Hudson, 2003
Fusco, Coco and Brian Wallis, eds. Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self. New York: International Center of Photography in association with Harry N. Abrams, 2003
Grynsztejn, Madeleine. Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2003
2002
Herkenhoff, Paulo. Tempo. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002
Meyer, Richard. Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth Century American Art. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002
Smith, Elizabeth A.T. Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002
2001
Morsiani, Paola. Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 2001
Muhammad, Erika Dalya. Race in Digital Space. New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2001
Siegel, Katy. Everybody Now: The Crowd in Contemporary Art. New York: The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, 2001
2000
Hiller, Susan. Dream Machines. London: National Touring Exhibitions, 2000
Man + Space: Gwangju Biennale 2000. Gwangju: Gwangju Biennale Foundation, 2000
Temkin, Ann, Susan Rosenberg, and Michael Taylor. Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000
1999
Broadhead, Caroline, and Lynne Cooke. Life Cycles. Leipzig, Germany: Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, 1999
Carlozzi, Annette DiMeo. Negotiating Small Truths. Austin: The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, 1999
Friis-Hansen, Dana. Other Narratives. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 1999
Phillips, Lisa. The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950–2000. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with W. W. Norton, 1999
1998
Brooke, Kaucyila, and Michael Anton Budd et al. The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire. Deborah Bright, ed. New York: Routledge, 1998
Godfrey, Tony. Conceptual Art. London: Phaidon, 1998
Perée, Rob. Postcards from Black America. Amsterdam: Con Rumore, 1998
1997
Celant, Germano, ed. Future, Present, Past: XLVII Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte. Venice: La Biennale di Venezia; Milan: Electa, 1997
Decter, Joshua. a/drift. Annandale-on-Hudson, NY: Bard College, 1997
Sobel, Dean. Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1997
Weibel, Peter. Inklusion: Exklusion, Versuch einer neuen Kartografie der Kunst im Zeitalter von Postkolonialismus und globaler Migration. Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 1997
1996
Horne, Peter and Reina Lewis, eds. Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Culture. London: Routledge, 1996
Warner, Marina. The Inner Eye: Art Beyond the Visible. London: National Touring Exhibitions, 1996
Wye, Deborah. Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980–1995. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996
1995
Herkenhoff, Paul. XI Mostra da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba/Mostra America. Curitiba, Brazil: Fundação Cultural de Curitiba, Preifeitura da Cidade, 1995
Farr, Ragnar, ed. Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference, and Desire. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1995
Perchuk, Andrew and Helaine Posner. The Masculine Masquerade: Masculinity and Representation. Cambridge, MA: MIT List Visual Arts Center / MIT Press, 1995
Sobel, Dean. 25 Americans: Painting in the 90s. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1995
1994
Baerwaldt, Wayne. Dark O’Clock. Winnipeg: Plug-In Editions, 1994
Golden, Thelma. Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994
Rugoff, Ralph. Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia. New York: Independent Curators Incorporated, 1994
1993
Philbrick, Jane. The Return of the Cadavre Exquis. New York: The Drawing Center, 1993
Solomon-Godeau, Abigail and Constance D. Lewallen. Mistaken Identities. Santa Barbara: University of California, 1993
Sussman, Elisabeth. 1993 Biennial Exhibition. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1993
1992
Colpitt, Frances and Phyllis Plous. Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art. Santa Barbara: University Art Museum, University of California, 1992
Cooke, Lynne, Bice Curiger, and Greg Hilty. Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art. London: The South Bank Centre; New York: Parkett. [German edition, Doubletake: kollektives Gedächtnis & heutige Kunst, Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien.], 1992
Rose, Bernice. Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawings. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1992
1991
Armstrong, Richard, John G. Hanhardt, Richard Marshall, and Lisa Phillips. 1991 Biennial Exhibition. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1991
Jones, Kellie, Tom Sokolowski, and Sarat Maharaj. Interrogating Identity. New York: Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, 1991
Kwon, Miwon. Positions of Authority: Leone & Macdonald, Glenn Ligon, Judith Weinperson. Interview. New York: Art in General. Exhibition brochure, 1991