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GLENN LIGON
Biography
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Selected Press
2017
O’Grady, Megan. “The Greats: Glenn Ligon.”
The New York Times Style Magazine
(October 17, 2021) 91-97.
Harris, Gareth. “New Territory for Glenn Ligon with First Solo Show in Italy.”
The Art Newspaper
, May 1, 2018.
Cotter, Holland. “Colors That Unite and Divide.”
New York Times
, August 11, 2017: C13.
Sheets, Hilarie M. “How Glenn Ligon Is Using Black and Blue to Begin a Dialogue.”
New York Times
, June 2, 2017.
Cotter, Holland. “Refracting Race Through the Comic Lens of Richard Pryor.”
New York Times
, January 21, 2016: C21.
Cooke, Lynne. “Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions.”
Artforum
54, no. 3 (November 2015): 294-295.
O’Toole, Sean. “Reviews: 56th Venice Biennale.”
Frieze
172 (June/July/August 2015): 166-167.
Kuo, Michelle. “Global Entry.”
Artforum
53, no. 9 (May 2015): 85-90.
Pobric, Pac. “Glenn Ligon – The Same, But Different.”
The Art Newspaper
XXIII, no. 260, (September 2014): 52-53.
Meyer, James. “Glenn Ligon: Whitney Museum of Art, New York.”
Artforum
49, no. 10 (Summer 2011): 392-393.
Berwick, Carly. “Stranger in America.”
Art in America
, No. 5, (May 2011): 120-131.
Cotter, Holland. “Messages That Conduct an Electric Charge.”
New York Times
, March 11, 2011.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “Unhidden Identities: A Glenn Ligon retrospective.”
New Yorker
, March 11, 2011: 76-77.
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah. “Glenn Ligon: Regen Projects.”
Artforum
48, no. 7 (March 2010): 255–56.
Campagnola, Sonia. Review of Glenn Ligon at Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
Flash Art
43, no. 271 (March–April 2010): 117.
Copeland, Huey. “The Blackness of Blackness.”
Artforum
47, no. 2 (October 2008): 151–54.
Bedford, Christopher. “Glenn Ligon: Regen Projects II.”
Artforum
46, no. 5 (January 2008): 288–89.
Meyer, Richard. “Light it up, or How Glenn Ligon Got Over.”
Artforum
44, no. 9 (May 2006): 240–47.
Burton, Johanna. “Subject to Revision.”
Artforum
43, no. 2 (October 2004): 258–62, 305.
Schwabsky, Barry. “Glenn Ligon: D’Amelio Terras.”
Artforum
40, no. 2 (October 2001): 158–59.
Cotter, Holland. “Stories About Race, Politics and Himself.”
New York Times
, February 1, 1998: 48-49.
Cotter, Holland. “‘The Evidence of Things Not Seen’: Drawings by Glenn Ligon.”
New York Times
, October 18, 1996.
Tate, Greg. “Bring the Word.”
Village Voice
, September 17, 1996: 30.
Cottingham, Laura. “The Pleasure Principled.”
Frieze
10 (May 1993): 10–15.
Smith, Roberta. “‘Lack of Location Is My Location.’”
New York Times
, June 16, 1991.