Publications – Glenn Ligon

Interviews & Artist’s Writings

Distinguishing Piss from Rain
Edited by James Hoff. Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2024.

“In the Hood.”
Philip Guston Now. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2020.

“Pay It No Mind.”
Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again. New York: Whitney Museum, 2018.

“On the Ground.”
Julie Mehretu: Grey Paintings. New York: Marian Goodman Gallery, 2016.

Yourself in the World: Select Writings and Interviews
Edited by Scott Rothkopf. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art and Yale University, 2011.

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Monographs & Select Solo Exhibition & Curatorial Project Catalogues

Julius Eastman & Glenn Ligon: Evil Nigger
New York: 52 Walker Press, 2025.

Glenn Ligon: All Over the Place
Cambridge: Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, 2024.

Untitled (America)/ Debris Field/ Synecdoche/ Notes for a Poem on the Third World
Text by Molesworth, Helen Robin Coste Lewis, Hamza Walker and Glenn Ligon. Los Angeles: Regen Projects, 2019.

Debris Field/Notes for a Poem on the Third World/Soleil Nègre
Text by Sara Nadal-Melsió with poems by Gregg Bordowitz. Paris: Galerie Chantal Crousel, 2018.

Blue Black
St. Louis: Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 2017.

Negro Sunshine
Tokyo: Rat Hole Gallery, 2016

Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions
Texts by Gregg Bordowitz, Alex Farquharson, Glenn Ligon, and Francesco Manacorda. London: Tate Publishing, 2015.

Glenn Ligon: Come Out
Text by Megan Ratner. London: Ridinghouse, 2014.

Glenn Ligon: AMERICA
Edited by Scott Rothkopf. Texts by Hilton Als, Okwui Enwezor, Saidiya Hartman, Bennett Simpson, Franklin Sirmans, and Scott Rothkopft. Interview with Glenn Ligon by Thelma Golden. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, distributed by Yale University Press, 2011.

Glenn Ligon: Figure/Paysage/Marine
Text by Wayne Koestenbaum. Paris: Galerie Yvon Lambert, 2008.

Glenn Ligon – Some Changes
Edited by Wayne Baerwaldt and Thelma Golden. Texts by Darby English, Wayne Koestenbaum, Huey Copeland, and Mark Nash; interview with Glenn Ligon and Stephen Andrews. Toronto: The Power Plant, 2005.

Glenn Ligon: Unbecoming
Kim, Byron. An Interview with Glenn Ligon. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 51-55, 1998.

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Selected Group Exhibition Catalogues & Books

Echo Delay Reverb
Montreuill: Editions B42, 2025.

Copistes
Metz: Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2025.

Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art
New York: Phaidon Press LTD, 2024.

Contact: Art and the Pull of Print
Roberts, Jennifer L. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.

Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics
Lawson, Dhyandra. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2024.

Edges of Ailey
Edwards, Adrienne ed. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2024.

Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form (Inventions: Black Philosophy, Politics, Aesthetics)
Bradley, Rizvana. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2024.

Gertrude Stein et Pablo Picasso. L’invention du Langage
Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux – Grand Palais, 2023.

I’ve Seen the Wall
Malavassi, Paola ed. Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH, 2023.

Language in Times of Miscommunication
O’Connell, Lauren R. Scottsdale: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 2023.

Trayvon Generation
Alexander, Elizabeth. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2022.

The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900
Meyer, James. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: The Collection
Aquin, Stéphane and Anne Reeve with Sandy Guttman ed. New York: DelMonico Books, 2022.

The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown
Cutter, Martha J. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.

Prospect.5 New Orleans: Yesterday We Said Tomorrow
Keith, J. Naima and Diana Nawi. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 2021.

Portals
Greece: NEON, 2021.

Grief and Grievance
Enwezor, Okwui. New York: Phaidon, 2021.

Young Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists
Sargent, Antwaun. New York: D.A.P., 2020.

Traces and Memories of Slavery in the Atlantic World
Aje, Lawrence, and Nicolas Gachon. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020.

Racism Postrace
Mukherjee, Roopali, Sarah Banet-Weiser and Herman Grey, editors. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.

Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art, The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection
Bedford, Christopher and Katy Siegel. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 2019.

Art After Stonewall
Weinberg, Jonathan. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2019.

Glenn Ligon: Untitled (I Am a Man)
Text by Gregg Bordowitz. London: Afterall, 2018.

Among Others: Blackness at MoMA
English, Darby and Charlotte Barat. New York: MoMA, 2018.

Fired Up! Ready to Go! Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity: An African American Life in Art
Cafritz, Peggy Cooper. New York: Rizzoli Electa, 2018.

Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now
Naeem, Asma. Washington DC: Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, 2018.

Art AIDS America Chicago
Boris, Staci, ed. Chicago: Alphawood Foundation, 2018.

Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible
Gaines, Malik. New York: New York University Press, 2017.

American Dream: from Pop to Present
Coppel, Stephen, Catherine Daunt and Susan Tallman. London: Thames and Hudson, 2017.

Four Generations The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art
Martin, Courtney J., ed. New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co, 2016.

1971: A Year in the Life of Color
English, Darby. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now
Beckwith, Naomi and Dieter Roelstraete. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

The Body of Art
Phaidon Editors. London: Phaidon Press Ltd, 2015.

Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age
Hochdörfer, Achim, et al. New York: Prestel, 2015.

La Biennale di Venezia—56th International Art Exhibition: All The World’s Futures
Enwezor, Okwui. Venice: Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, 2015.

A History: Art, Architecture, Design from the 1980s Until Today
Macel, Christine, ed. Paris, France: Centre Pompidou, Flammarion, 2014.

Citizen: An American Lyric
Rankine, Claudia. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2014.

8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Gaitán, Juan. Ostfilderum: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2014.

Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery and the Sites of Blackness In Multicultural America
Copeland, Huey. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Black Is, Black Ain’t
Walker, Hamza ed. Chicago: The Renaissance Society, 2013.

Art & Queer Culture
Lord, Catherine and Richard Meyer. London: Phaidon, 2013.

Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years
Rosenthal, Mark. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

Invisible: Art About the Unseen 1957-2012
Rugoff, Ralph. London: Hayward Publishing, 2012.

Who’s afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now
Touré. New York: Free Press, 2011.

Humiliation
Koestenbaum, Wayne. New York: Picador, 2011.

Defining Contemporary Art–25 Years in 200 Pivotal Artworks
Birnbaum, Daniel et al. London: Phaidon, 2011.

Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the present
Cooke, Lynne, Douglas Crimp, Kristin Poor. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, 2010.

Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture
Katz, Jonathan D. and David C. Ward. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2010.

Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination
Scott, Darieck. New York: New York University Press, 2010.

Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Rattemeyer, Christian. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2009.

Appropriation
Evans, David. London: Whitechapel Gallery; Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2009.

30 Seconds Off an Inch
Beckwith, Naomi. New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2009.

The 7th Gwangju Biennale
Enwezor, Okwui. Gwangju, South Korea: Gwangju Biennale Foundation, 2008.

Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art
Enwezor, Okwui. New York: International Center for Photography; Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2008.

How to See A Work of Art in Total Darkness
English, Darby. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007.

Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation
Davidson, Susan ed. London: Merrell; New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007.

Brighton Photo Biennial
Tawadros, Gilane. Brighton: Photoworks / Brighton Photo Biennial, 2006.

Getting Emotional
Baume, Nicholas, ed. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, 2005.

Drawing from the Modern, 1975–2005
Kantor, Jordan. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005.

Art Since 1900
Bois, Yve-Alain, and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh et al. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.

Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self
Fusco, Coco and Brian Wallis, eds. New York: International Center of Photography in association with Harry N. Abrams, 2003.

Tempo
Herkenhoff, Paulo. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002.

Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth Century American Art
Meyer, Richard. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2002.

Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection
Smith, Elizabeth A.T. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002.

Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art
Morsiani, Paola. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 2001.

Race in Digital Space
Muhammad, Erika Dalya. New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2001.

Dream Machines
Hiller, Susan. London: National Youring Exhibitions, 2000.

The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950–2000
Phillips, Lisa. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with W. W. Norton, 1999.

Other Narratives
Friis-Hansen, Dana. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 1999.

Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980–1995
Wye, Deborah. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996.

The Inner Eye: Art Beyond the Visible
Warner, Marina. Manchester: Cornerhouse Publications, 1996.

Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Culture
Horne, Peter and Reina Lewis, eds. London: Routledge, 1996.

Jurassic Technologies Revenant
Cooke, Lynne. Sydney: The Biennial, 1996.

The Masculine Masquerade: Masculinity and Representation
Perchuk, Andrew, and Helaine Posner. Cambridge, MA: MIT List Visual Arts Center / MIT Press, 1995.

Mirage: Enigmas of Race, Difference, and Desire
Farr, Ragnar, ed. London: Institute of Contemporary Arts 1995.

1993 Biennial Exhibition
Sussman, Elisabeth and Thelma Golden; John G Hanhardt; Lisa Phillips; Homi K Bhabha; Coco Fusco; B Ruby Rich; Avital Ronell. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1993.

Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art
Colpitt, Frances and Phyllis Plous. Santa Barbara: University Art Museum, University of California, 1992.

Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art
Cooke, Lynne, Bice Curiger, and Greg Hilty. Editors: Eleonora Louis and Toni Stooss. London: The South Bank Centre; New York: Parkett, 1992. [German edition, Doubletake: kollektives Gedächtnis & heutige Kunst, Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien.]

Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing
Rose, Bernice. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1992.

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