Glenn Ligon
Sign in to saveAfrican American conceptual artist (born 1960)
OverviewAI-generated
Glenn Ligon is an American painter, visual artist, draftsperson, and conceptual artist born in The Bronx in 1960. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and works in New York City. Ligon’s practice encompasses intertextuality, appropriation, installation art, and conceptual art. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work.
His artworks are held in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate, and the National Gallery of Art. Ligon participated in Documenta 11. He is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 2 sources: Wikidata, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 20
Top works
- Jennie C. Jones : Ensemble
- Glenn Ligon - All over the Place
- Glenn Ligon : Distinguishing Piss from Rain
- Her Style
- Blue Black
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8
- Total plays
- 9
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Glenn+Ligon">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SPAdes: A New Genome Assembly Algorithm and Its Applications to Single-Cell Sequencing
· 2012 · cited 24,574x
- Triblock Copolymer Syntheses of Mesoporous Silica with Periodic 50 to 300 Angstrom Pores
· 1998 · cited 10,933x
- QUAST: quality assessment tool for genome assemblies
· 2013 · cited 10,551x
- Chronic Kidney Disease and the Risks of Death, Cardiovascular Events, and Hospitalization
· 2004 · cited 9,483x
- The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
· 2000 · cited 8,917x
via Crossref · CC0
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Glenn
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- The Bronx
- Occupation
- artist
- Educated at
- Wesleyan University
- Participant in
- Documenta 11
- Field of work
- conceptual art
- Genre
- video art
- Image
- Glenn Ligon Interview at Camden Arts Centre 6m24s (cropped).jpg
- Work location
- New York City
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1960-01-01
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- Commons category
- Glenn Ligon
Sources (12)
via Wikidata · CC0