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 Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 119 |
| United Kingdom | 8 |
| Canada | 6 |
| Germany | 4 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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Walker Art Center, USA |
7 |
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The Fabric Workshop and Museum, USA |
4 |
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Regen Projects, USA |
4 |
Biography: 
20.4.1960 Born in New York, NY (US)
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Public exhibitions 154
from 12.11.
until 3.1.2010
until 20.12.
Solo shows 24
2009
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| Glenn Ligon - Thomas Dane Gallery, London (England) |
2008
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| The Death of Tom - mocca - Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON |
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| Glenn Ligon - Love and Theft - Power House Memphis, Memphis, TN |
2007
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| Glenn Ligon - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Glenn Ligon - some changes - MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg |
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| Glenn Ligon: Some Changes - The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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| Glenn Ligon-Some Changes - Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH |
2006
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| Glenn Ligon - Thomas Dane Gallery, London (England) |
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| Glenn Ligon - Yvon Lambert - Paris, Paris |
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| Glenn Ligon - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
2005
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| Glenn Ligon - The Power Plant, Toronto, ON |
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| Glenn Ligon: Drawings - Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO |
2004
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| Glenn Ligon - The Gallery at Dieu Donné Papermill, New York City, NY |
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| Glenn Ligon - Text Paintings 1990 - 2004 - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
2003
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| Glenn Ligon: Going There - D´Amelio Terras, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Glenn Ligon - Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA |
2001
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| Glenn Ligon - Kunstverein München, Munich |
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| Glenn Ligon: Colored - D´Amelio Terras, New York City, NY |
2000
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| Coloring: New Work by Glenn Ligon - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| currents 81: GLENN LIGON - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Artist-in-Residence: Glenn Ligon - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
1998
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| Glenn Ligon - Artpace - San Antonio, San Antonio, TX |
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| Glenn Ligon - Unbecoming - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
1995
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| Glenn Ligon: Skin Tight - The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA |
Group shows 127
2009
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| Exposed! — Revealing Sources in Contemporary Art - Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE |
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| Post-American LA - 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Bad Habits - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Double Object - Thomas Dane Gallery, London (England) |
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| I.D.: Individual Demographics - Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| FAX - The Drawing Center, New York City, NY |
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| Commentary - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Confronting History: Contemporary Artists Envision the Past - Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT |
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| Across the Divide: Reconsidering the Other - Illinois State Museum, Chicago Gallery , Chicago, IL |
2008
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| 30 Americans - Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL |
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| "Listen Darling… The World is Yours" - Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão |
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| Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| 7th Gwangju Biennale - Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju |
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| MORE THAN WORDS - Von Lintel Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Wizard of Oz - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| Provocative Visions: Race and Identity—Selections from the Permanent Collection - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Black is Black ain't - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Intimacy - The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY |
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| Constructions of the Body - Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME |
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| Working History - The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland, OR |
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| Under Pain of Death - Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City, NY |
2007
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| Read Me! Text in Art - Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA |
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| Come, come, come into my world - Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão |
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| J´Embrasse Pas - Collection Lambert, Avignon |
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| Art Protects - Yvon Lambert - Paris, Paris |
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| Mario Testino - At Home - Yvon Lambert - New York, New York City, NY |
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| What Is Painting? - Contemporary Art from the Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Gallery Artsists - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Substance & Surface - Bortolami, New York City, NY |
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| Learn to Read - Tate Modern, London (England) |
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| Re-picturing the Past/Picturing the Present - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Sparkle Then Fade - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA |
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| Art in America , Now - MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai |
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| Simply Red - The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Paper Trail - A Decade of Acquisitions - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Not For Sale - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island |
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| The Paper Sculpture Show - Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX |
2006
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| Expressing Identity - American Prints Since 1980 - Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE |
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| Defamation of Character - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island |
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| Interstellar Low Ways - Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL |
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| Voodoo Macbeth - De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea (England) |
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| Brighton Photo Biennial 2006 - Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton (England) |
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| black alphabet - conTEXTS of contemporary african-american art - Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw |
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| Group Dynamic - Portfolios, Series, and Sets - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA |
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| The Past Made Present: Contemporary Art and Memory - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| The Paper Sculpture Show - CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH |
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| Yes Bruce Nauman - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY |
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| Gifts go in one direction - Apexart, New York City, NY |
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| Subject - Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT |
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| Net Web Art - Net Archives arte e identitá virtuale - MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome |
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| The Paper Sculpture Show - Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA |
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| Dark Places - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Skin is a Language - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Portraits of Artists - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY |
2005
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| A Brief History of Invisible Art - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| Strange Days - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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| Looking at Words - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Only Skin Deep - Changing Visions of the American Self - San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA |
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| Artists Interrogate - Race and Identity - Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
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| African American Art - Masterworks of Contemporary Art - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Very Early Pictures - Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Getting Emotional - ICA Boston, Boston, MA |
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| The Paper Sculpture Show - Art Interactive, Cambridge, MA |
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| Surfing the Century: Twentieth-Century Art - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| Collection Remixed - Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), New York City, NY |
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| Log Cabin - Artists Space, New York City, NY |
2004
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| 15 year anniversary of Regen Projects. - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Contemporary Art: Floor to Ceiling, Wall to Wall - The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT |
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| Love / Hate. From Magritte to Cattelan. - Villa Manin. Centro d'arte contemporanea, Codroipo (UD) |
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| Super-Sized: The Big Print Show - Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Harlem Postcards Spring 2004 - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| The Paper Sculpture Show - Gallery 400 - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Selections from the Permanent Collection - The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) - Art from 1951 to the Present - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
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| The Paper Sculpture Show - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
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| neoqueer - CoCA - Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA |
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| Under $2,000 Albers < Zaugg - Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, NY |
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| Glenn Ligon and Robert Colescott - Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, Denver, CO |
2003
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| Fast Forward (twenty years of white rooms) - White Columns, New York City, NY |
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| Representing Slavery - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA |
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| The Paper Sculpture Show - Sculpture Center, Long Island |
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| Visualizing Identity - Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
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| The Squared Circle - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| American Tableaux - Many Voices, Many Stories - MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
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| On the Wall - Wallpaper and Tableau - The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude - MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA |
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| The Space Between: Artists Engaging Race and Syncretism - Davis Museum and Cultural Center - Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA |
2002
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| New York, New Work, Now! - Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH |
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| Documenta 11 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Material World - From Lichtenstein to Viola 25 Years of The Fabric Workshop and - Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney - MCA, Sydney, NSW |
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| time/frame - Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
2001
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| Looking Forward Looking Black - Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, Denver, CO |
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| Works on Paper - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Word and Image: Works from the Permanent Collection - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
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| Take Two - Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, ON |
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| Monochrome/Monochrome? - Florence Lynch Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Looking Forward Looking Black - Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Subject Plural - Crowds in Contemporary Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| A Way with Words - Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
2000
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| AutoWerke - Europäische und amerikanische Fotografie 1998 - 2000 - Deichtorhallen, Hamburg |
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| The Cities Collect - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| State of the Art: Recent Gifts and Acquisitions - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection - Queens Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Good Business is the Best Art - Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), New York City, NY |
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| 3rd Gwangju Biennale - Man+Space - Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju |
1999
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| Calendar 2000 - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| The Hand - The Power Plant, Toronto, ON |
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| Pencils of Nature - a dialogue - Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, NY |
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| Other Narratives - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1998
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| Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art - The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |
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| A Portrait Of Our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| Changing Spaces: Artists' Projects from The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadel - The Power Plant, Toronto, ON |
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| Art of Four Decades: 1958 - 1998 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| 100 Years of Sculpture: From the Pedestal to the Pixel - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
1997
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| Un Bel Ete - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg |
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| 47th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Civil Progress: Life in Black America - Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1996
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| Tangles - Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA |
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| a/drift - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
1995
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| A Glimpse of the Norton Collection As Revealed by Kim Dingle - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Word for Word - Arcadia University Art Gallery , Glenside, PA |
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| Boxer - Institute of International Visual Arts - inIVA, London (England) |
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| Glenn Ligon and Gary Simmons - Arcadia University Art Gallery , Glenside, PA |
1994
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| Transformers - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
1993
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| Mistaken Identities - Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen |
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| Karen Kilimnik, Glenn Ligon, Suzanne McClelland, Daniel Oates - Jack Hanley Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
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Germany
| | Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf
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United Kingdom
| | Thomas Dane Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
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| | Yvon Lambert - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
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France
| | FRAC - Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
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Portugal
| | Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão
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USA
| | UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
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| | Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
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| | Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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| | MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
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| | Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
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| | The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Monica, CA
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| | Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
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| | Davis Museum and Cultural Center - Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
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