Glenn Ligon

*1960 / United States

Solo exhibitions

Call and Response

Camden Arts Centre, London (GB)
10 Oct 2014 – 11 Jan 2015
America

LACMA Museum, Los Angeles (US)
23 Oct 2011 – 22 Jan 2012
Neither Here nor There

Stevenson, Cape Town (ZA)
22 Apr 2010 – 29 May 2010
Some Changes

The Power Plant, Toronto (CA)
25 Jun 2005 – 5 Sep 2005
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Regen Projects, Los Angeles (US)
10 Sep 2004 – 16 Oct 2004

Group

Has the myth been shattered

The Broad, Los Angeles (US)
21 Nov 2026 – 4 Apr 2027

with Barbara Kruger, Guadalupe Rosales, Hank Willis Thomas, Andy Warhol
ECHO DELAY REVERB

American Art and Francophone Thought

Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
22 Oct 2025 – 15 Feb 2026

with Laurie Anderson, Mark Dion, Hal Fischer, Andrea Fraser, Charles Gaines, Ellen Gallagher, Andrea Geyer, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dan Graham, Renee Green, Hans Haacke, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha …
Silver Linings

Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection

Hunter Museum, Chattanooga (US)
19 Sep 2025 – 12 Jan 2026

with Romare Bearden, Beverly Buchanan, Renee Cox, Myra Greene, Howardena Pindell, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems
Silver Linings

Celebrating the Spelman Art Collection

Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville (US)
4 Feb 2025 – 6 Jul 2025

with Romare Bearden, Beverly Buchanan, Renee Cox, Myra Greene, Howardena Pindell, Deborah Roberts, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems
After Mallarmé

Large Glass, London (GB)
12 Apr 2024 – 19 Jul 2024

with Peter Downsbrough, Florian Hecker, Marine Hugonnier, Helen Mirra, Susan Morris, John Murphy, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Cerith Wyn Evans
Tabula Rasa

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (US)
30 May 2024 – 12 Jul 2024

with Michele Abeles, Sarah Charlesworth, Talia Chetrit, Aria Dean, Liz Deschenes, Sam Durant, Douglas Huebler, Larry Johnson, Mike Kelley, Joseph Kosuth, Deana Lawson, Tony Oursler …
Going Dark

The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility

Guggenheim New York, New York (US)
20 Oct 2023 – 7 Apr 2024

with Farah Al Qasimi, Kevin Beasley, Rebecca Belmore, Dawoud Bey, John Edmonds, Ellen Gallagher, David Hammons, Lyle Ashton Harris, Kerry James Marshall, Joiri Minaya, Sandra Mujinga, Sondra Perry …
Before Tomorrow

30 years Astrup Fearnley Museet

Astrup Fearnley MoMa, Oslo (NO)
22 Jun 2023 – 3 Dec 2023

with Vanessa Baird, Mark Bradford, Paul Chan, Ian Cheng, Trisha Donnelly, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Ida Ekblad, YANG Fudong, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Douglas Gordon …
Mostly New

Selections from the NYU Art Collection

Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York (US)
6 Sep 2022 – 17 Dec 2022

with Farah Al Qasimi, Ilse Bing, Harry Callahan, Adam Fuss, Peter Hujar, Danny Lyon, Cindy Sherman, Aaron Siskind, Andy Warhol, Miwa Yanagi
Since Unveiling

Selected Acquisitions of a Decade

The Broad, Los Angeles (US)
20 Nov 2021 – 3 Apr 2022

with Tauba Auerbach, John Baldessari, Mark Bradford, Gregory Crewdson, Andreas Gursky, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sharon Lockhart, Kerry James Marshall, Shirin Neshat, Catherine Opie, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth
OMNISCIENT

Queer Documentation in an Image Culture

Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York (US)
18 Jun 2021 – 2 Jan 2022

with Stephen Andrews, Joy Episalla, Chitra Ganesh, Pacifico Silano
I am you, you are too

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (US)
7 Sep 2018 – 23 Feb 2020

with Vito Acconci, Chantal Akerman, Francis Alys, Mark Bradford, Sarah Charlesworth, Bruce Conner, SONG Dong, Stan Douglas, Ellen Gallagher, Dan Graham, David Hammons, Leslie Hewitt …
30 Americans

Painting, sculpture, and photography by influential contemporary African American artists.

The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (US)
27 Oct 2019 – 12 Jan 2020

with Mark Bradford, Renee Green, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Rashid Johnson, Kalup Linzy, Kerry James Marshall, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Xaviera Simmons, Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson …
Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now II

Guggenheim New York, New York (US)
24 Jul 2019 – 5 Jan 2020

with Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Lyle Ashton Harris, Robert Mapplethorpe, Catherine Opie, Paul Mpagi Sepuya
The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement

The Phillips Collection, Washington (US)
22 Jun 2019 – 22 Sep 2019

with Erkan Oezgen, Adel Abdessemed, Chantal Akerman, John Akomfrah, Francis Alys, Pawel Althamer, Guillermo Arias, Kader Attia, Yto Barrada, Andrea Bowers, Tania Bruguera, Beverly Buchanan …
God Made My Face

A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin

David Zwirner, New York (US)
10 Jan 2019 – 16 Feb 2019

with Richard Avedon, Kara Walker, James Welling
Nothing Stable under Heaven

SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
3 Mar 2018 – 16 Sep 2018

with Andrea Bowers, Hans Haacke, Emily Jacir, Arthur Jafa, Rinko Kawauchi, Richard Misrach, Trevor Paglen, Judith Joy Ross
An Incomplete History of Protest

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
18 Aug 2017 – 11 May 2018

with Andrea Bowers, Mark Bradford, AA Bronson, Larry Clark, Bruce Davidson, Larry Fink, Theaster Gates, General Idea, Guerrilla Girls, Rashid Johnson, Mary Kelly, Barbara Kruger …
Elements of Vogue

A case study of radical performance

CA2M, Madrid (ES)
17 Nov 2017 – 6 May 2018

with Charles Atlas, Ellen Gallagher, Gerard H. Gaskin, Lyle Ashton Harris, Zoe Leonard, Kalup Linzy, Rashaad Newsome, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler
Riots: Allmähliches Aufkündigen der Zukunft

Riots: Slow Cancellation of the Future

ifa-Galerie, Berlin (DE)
26 Jan 2018 – 1 Apr 2018

with John Akomfrah, Chto Delat International, Gauri Gill, Louis Henderson, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Karrabing Film Collective
We dream under the same sky

The art for the refugees

Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
16 Sep 2017 – 21 Sep 2017

with Adel Abdessemed, John Armleder, Nairy Baghramian, Neil Beloufa, Latifa Echakhch, Isa Genzken, Wade Guyton, Annette Messager, Gabriel Orozco, Laure Prouvost, Ugo Rondinone, Anri Sala …
THE RESTLESS EARTH

Palazzo della Triennale, Milano (IT)
28 Apr 2017 – 20 Aug 2017

with Adel Abdessemed, John Akomfrah, Francis Alys, Pawel Althamer, Ziad Antar, Kader Attia, Yto Barrada, Andrea Bowers, Tania Bruguera, Banu Cennetoglu, Phil Collins, Rokni Haerizadeh …
Human Interest

Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
27 Apr 2016 – 2 Apr 2017

with Diane Arbus, David Armstrong, Charles Atlas, Alvin Baltrop, Dawoud Bey, John Coplans, Jay DeFeo, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lee Friedlander …
Vision and Justice

Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge (US)
27 Aug 2016 – 8 Jan 2017

with Bruce Davidson, Gordon Parks, Kara Walker
The Making of a Fugitive

MCA Museum Contemp Art, Chicago (US)
16 Jul 2016 – 4 Dec 2016

with Dennis Adams, Chris Burden, David Hammons, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Michal Rovner, Carrie Schneider, Xaviera Simmons
I am a Lie and I am Gold

A group exhibition curated by Marco Breuer

Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (US)
11 Dec 2015 – 23 Jan 2016

with Mel Bochner, Matthew Brandt, Davide Cantoni, Johannes Kahrs, Sze Tsung LEONG, Julianne Swartz, Jim Torok
The Venice Biennale - 56th International Art Exhibition

All the World's Futures

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
9 May 2015 – 22 Nov 2015

with Jumana Emil Abboud, Adel Abdessemed, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Abounaddara, Boris Achour, Chantal Akerman, John Akomfrah, Kutluğ Ataman, Maja Bajevic, Ernesto Ballesteros, Sammy Baloji, Rosa Barba …
Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s

Telfair Museum, Savannah (US)
12 Jun 2015 – 20 Sep 2015

with Doug Aitken, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Shirin Neshat, Catherine Opie, Gabriel Orozco, Diana Thater, Kara Walker
Song of Myself

Palmer Museum of Art, University Park (US)
13 Jan 2015 – 10 May 2015

with Ann Hamilton, Rashid Johnson, Yasumasa Morimura, Shirin Neshat
BERLIN BIENNALE 8

Berlin Biennale, Berlin (DE)
29 May 2014 – 3 Aug 2014

with Bani Abidi, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Carlos Amorales, Leonor Antunes, Julieta Aranda, Nairy Baghramian, Rosa Barba, Mariana Castillo Deball, Carolina Caycedo, Tacita Dean, Mario Garcia Torres, Shilpa Gupta …
In a Silent Way

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (US)
18 May 2013 – 1 Dec 2013

with Roy DeCarava, David Hammons, Rashid Johnson, Carrie Mae Weems
The Unphotographable

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (US)
1 Jan 2013 – 23 Mar 2013

with Robert Adams, Diane Arbus, Walead Beshty, Mel Bochner, Sophie Calle, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Liz Deschenes, Kota Ezawa, Adam Fuss, Paul Graham, Idris Khan …
Mixed Use, Manhattan : Photography and related practices 1970s to present

PHOTOESPAÑA 2010

MNCARS - Museo REINA SOFIA, Madrid (ES)
10 Jun 2010 – 27 Sep 2010

with Alvin Baltrop, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Dara Birnbaum, Jennifer Bolande, Matthew Buckingham, Tom Burr, William Gedney, Bernard Guillot, David Hammons, Sharon Hayes, Peter Hujar, Peter Hujar …
From Then to Now : Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art

MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland (US)
29 Jan 2010 – 9 May 2010

with Dawoud Bey, Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry, Renee Green, Rashid Johnson, Adam Pendleton, Chris Simpson, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems
Here is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
10 Sep 2008 – 23 Mar 2009

with Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Matthew Barney, Rineke Dijkstra, Valie Export, Allen Ginsberg, David Goldblatt, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, IRWIN - Dusan Mandic, Miran Mohar, Andrej Savski, Roman Uranjek, Borut Vogelnik, Garry Winogrand
The 7th Gwangju Biennale Annual Report: A Year in Exhibitions

The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR)
5 Sep 2008 – 9 Nov 2008

with Adel Abdessemed, Bani Abidi, Francis Alys, Lara Almarcegui, Stefano Arienti, Sadie Benning, Ursula Biemann, Tania Bruguera, Gerard Byrne, Bruce Conner, Thomas Demand, Koo Donghee …
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
18 Jan 2008 – 4 May 2008

with Christian Boltanski, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Jef Geys, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Craigie Horsfield, Lamia Joreige, Zoe Leonard, Sherrie Levine, Ilán Lieberman …
Skin Is a Language

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
12 Jan 2006 – 21 May 2006

with Bruce Conner, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Catherine Opie
Strange Days

Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville (US)
22 Nov 2005 – 12 Feb 2006

with Doug Aitken, Andreas Gursky, Sharon Lockhart, Vera Lutter, Bruce Nauman, Raymond Pettibon, Lorna Simpson
Portraits of Artists

Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York (US)
7 Jan 2006 – 4 Feb 2006

with Berenice Abbott, Vito Acconci, Richard Avedon, Constantin Brancusi, Sophie Calle, Larry Clark, Chuck Close, Hollis Frampton, Adam Fuss, Candida Hoefer, Jacob Hilsdorf, Allan Kaprow …
Surfing the Century: Twentieth-Century Art

UMMA Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (US)
5 Feb 2005 – 15 May 2005

with Ansel Adams, Robert Frank, Joel Meyerowitz, Edward Weston
Experiments with Truth

The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (US)
3 Dec 2004 – 12 Mar 2005

with Zarina Bhimji, Isaac Julien, Amar Kanwar, Ulrike Ottinger, Liisa Roberts, Francesco Vezzoli
Imágenes en movimiento // Moving Pictures

Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao (ES)
7 Oct 2003 – 18 May 2004

with Marina Abramovic, Francis Alys, Matthew Barney, Uta Barth, Oliver Boberg, Jeff Burton, James Casebere, Patty Chang, Miles Coolidge, Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Demand, Rineke Dijkstra …
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self

ICP Center of Photography, New York (US)
12 Dec 2003 – 29 Feb 2004

with Ansel Adams, Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Eleanor Antin, Diane Arbus, Shimon Attie, Richard Avedon, Aziz + Cucher, John Baldessari, Tina Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Sandra Bermudez, Louis Carlos Bernal …
Fast Forward: Twenty Years of White Rooms

White Columns, New York (US)
1 Nov 2003 – 7 Dec 2003

with Alix Pearlstein, Aura Rosenberg, Oliver Wasow

Events

Art Basel Miami Beach 2023

Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami (US)
8 Dec 2023 – 10 Dec 2023

with Albarran Cabrera, Janine Antoni, Diane Arbus, John Baldessari, Lillian Bassman, Oliver Beer, Valerie Belin, Lynda Benglis, Erwin Blumenfeld, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Kwame Brathwaite …
16th Istanbul Biennial

The Seventh Continent

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul (TR)
14 Sep 2019 – 10 Nov 2019

with Oezlem Altin, Pia Arke, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Rebecca Belmore, Mariechen Danz, Jonathas de Andrade, Elmas Deniz, Simon Fujiwara, Rashid Johnson, Eva Kotatkova, Agnieszka Kurant, Armin Linke …