Glenn Ligon

b. 1960, Bronx, New York, US

Spanning painting, prints, photographs, sculptures and large-scale installations, Ligon’s work engages with text and found imagery to highlight African-american experiences, rendering a portrait of America as a concept, a place and a nation. Preferring to pose questions rather than propose answers, he engages the state of the world and urges us to do the same. The mutability of images, and our perception of them, are recurring themes. Ligon had works on view in the Duro Olowu-curated exhibition ‘Seeing Chicago’ at MCA Chicago. He will also feature in the ‘Prospect.5, New Orleans’ art triennial, in the autumn, and is at work on upcoming solo exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth New York, and Carré d’art in Nîmes, France.