Ligon, Glenn, 1960-

LC control no.	no 95043564
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Personal name heading	Ligon, Glenn, 1960- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1960-04-20
Place of birth	Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activity	Art Painting Drawing Sculpture
Affiliation	Bellagio Study and Conference Center Whitney Museum of American Art. Independent Study Program Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)
Profession or occupation	Artists Authors
Found in	Glenn Ligon, 1993: p. 6 (b. 1960, Bronx, N.Y.; African-American artist) African American National Biography, accessed February 19, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Ligon, Glenn; painter, installation artist; born 20 April 1960 in Bronx, New York, United States; attended Walden School (1966-1978); enrolled as a studio art major at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut (1978); his first exhibition was at the school's Davison Art Center (1982); studied at Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York (1984); “Narratives” portrayed the details of his own identity as a modern, black, gay man; won the Visual Artists Fellowship (1989;1991); awarded residency from the Rockefeller Foundation at the Bellagio Study Center in Bellagio, Italy (1994); he used his personal archive in “Feast of Scraps” (1994-1998); installation “To Disembark” (1993) referenced the voyage of Henry Box Brown; “Notes on the Margin of the “Black Book” was exhibited at the Whitney Biennial (1993); received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (1997); launched an interactive digital exhibition ”Annotations” (2003); received John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2003); the Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellowship (2005); created the internationally touring retrospective work titled “Some Changes” (2006); was awarded the Skowhegan Medal for Painting (2006))