American artist Glenn Ligon has a way with words. His text-laden paintings are based on seminal writings by authors such James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, and Jesse Jackson, and his ...

Mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth has plucked another big-name artist from the competition. Glenn Ligon, the artist known for his trenchant text and neon works, has joined the gallery. Hauser & Wirth’s ...

For at least the 800th time, Cambridge drifts back into Michaelmas Term, opening its cloisters to swarms of sweaty students and their perilous bicycles. The Fitzwilliam Museum, however, is roaring ...

New York artist Glenn Ligon is perhaps best known for the text-based paintings he started making in the '80s. Now, his first midcareer... Glenn Ligon Reframes History In The Art Of 'America' Glenn ...

Installation view of Dialogues: Tim Rollins & K.O.S. and Glenn Ligon at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2018) (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) There is something utterly majestic about block ...

This fall, discover Glenn Ligon’s sharp, insightful writing; Gustav Metzger ’s account of his extraordinary life, art, and political activism; and a collection of cartoons by Jason Rhoades that reveal ...

Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist born in 1960 in the Bronx, New York. Ligon's work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity through various media including painting, neon, ...

Ligon is an artist living and working in New York. Throughout his career, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature and society across bodies of work that build ...

Glenn Ligon is an American Conceptual artist known for his text-based paintings, prints, and sculptures. Ligon often explores ideas of sexuality, violence, and racial identity within American history ...

With stencils and oil sticks, Glenn Ligon asks questions about visibility — and our ability to read one another This painting, so like a weathered tombstone, is not hard to see but is very hard to ...

Glenn Ligon, Grey Hands #2-6, silkscreen on canvas. ©Glenn Ligon. Loan courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, and Thomas Dane Gallery, London. Installation ...

Unable to afford contemporary art, a fledgling collector in 1994 sent letters to several artists asking if they might make him something. Some artists obliged including Glenn Ligon, Carl Andre, Sean ...