Born on April 20, 1960, in Bronx, New York
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
EDUCATION
1985 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1982 B.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
1980 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
AWARDS
2006 Skowhegan Medal for Painting, New York, NY
Academy Awards in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters,
New York, NY
2003 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY
2001 DAAD, Berlin, Germany
1998 ArtPace International Artists-in-Residence Program, San Antonio, TX
1997 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
1994 Residency, Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study Center, Bellagio, Italy
1991 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship, Painting
1990 Art Matters, Inc. Fellowship Dewar’s Young Artist’s Recognition Award
1989/90 P.S.1 National Studio Program, The Clocktower, New York
1989 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship, Drawing
1982 National Endowment for the Arts, Curatorial Internship,
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
The Bohen Foundation, New York, NY
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, TX
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Go Back to Glenn Ligon Page |
