Glenn Ligon: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

APS Gallery | October 21, 2023 – April 7, 2024

This exhibition in the Artists Project Space brings together works on paper by Glenn Ligon that explore how constructions of blackness in the United States infuse popular culture, literature, and history. The artworks engage entangled histories of race, literature, and culture, with a broad range of references from slave narratives to children’s coloring books. Together, they poignantly articulate the role of language and popular culture in the structuring of the self—and society—in both the past and present.

Since the early 1990s, Glenn Ligon’s work has engaged questions of race, American history, identity and queer sexuality, and related topics. One of the most prominent artists of his generation, Ligon has shown in major international exhibitions, such as the Venice Biennale, and is part of museum collections across the United States. In 2011 the Whitney Museum of American Art presented a mid-career retrospective of his work, Glenn Ligon: AMERICA.

All works in this exhibition are editions from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.