Glenn Ligon
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Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity.
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Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988) at the National Gallery of Art in 2022
Stranger#21 (2005), from the Stranger series, at the Rubell Museum DC in 2022
Runaways (1993) at the National Gallery of Art in 2022
Warm Broad Glow II (2011) at the Whitney Museum in 2011
Double America (2012) at the National Gallery of Art in 2022Awards 1
Artists from United States 6
About this person
Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. Based in New York City, Ligon's work often draws on 20th century literature and speech of 20th century cultural figures such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Gertrude Stein, Jean Genet, and Richard Pryor. He is noted as one of the originators of the term Post-Blackness.
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Type
Artist
Status
living
Dates
Born 1960 · age 66
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