Artworks · Glenn Ligon

Extract

2021 · Aquatint with photogravure

plate: 4 5/8 × 6" (11.8 × 15.2 cm); sheet: 14 1/2 × 15" (36.8 × 38.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Debris Field II

2015 · Aquatint with sugarlift, drypoint, and scraper

Plate: 16 × 12 in. (40.6 × 30.5 cm) Sheet: 21 1/2 in. × 17 in. (54.6 × 43.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Rückenfigur

2009 · Neon and paint

Overall: 24 × 145 1/2 × 5 in. (61 × 369.6 × 12.7 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

The Death of Tom

2008 · 16mm film transferred to video (black and white, sound)

23 min.

Museum of Modern Art

The Rivington Place Portfolio

2006 · Print

Victoria and Albert Museum

Untitled

2006 · Neon lights and paint

object: 610 x 4267 mm

Tate

Warm Broad Glow

2005 · Neon and blackout paint

26" × 16' (66 × 487.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Self-Portrait at Eleven Years Old

2004 · Stenciled linen pulp

composition (irreg.): 29 3/8 × 22 11/16" (74.6 × 57.7 cm); sheet: 35 5/8 × 29 15/16" (90.5 × 76 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Figure

2001 · Set of fifty screenprints

sheet (each): 9 x 6" (22.9 x 15.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Boys with Basketball, Harriet Tubman, Salimu, Letter B #3

2001 · Felt-tip pen on printed paper

38 x 25" (96.5 x 63.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Boy on Tire, Letter C, Zululand, Letter M #4

2001 · Oil stick on printed paper

38 x 25" (96.5 x 63.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Graduating Girl (Version 2) #1

2000 · Silkscreen ink and oil crayon on canvas

48 x 36" (121.9 x 91.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Stranger in the Village/Hands #1)

2000 · Coal dust, printing ink, and adhesive on printed paper

38 1/2 x 50" (97.8 x 127 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Stranger in the Village/Crowd #1)

2000 · Coal dust, printing ink, oilstick, and adhesive on screenprinted printed paper

40 x 54" (101.6 x 137.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Stranger in the Village/Crowd #2)

2000 · Coal dust, printing ink, oilstick, and adhesive on screenprinted printed paper

40 x 53 1/4" (101.6 x 135.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Stranger in the Village #13

1998 · Enamel, silkscreen ink, oil and acrylic paint, gesso, and coal dust on canvas

193.1 × 335.3 cm (76 × 132 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1998 · Ink and coal dust on paper

6 1/2 x 10 1/4" (16.5 x 26 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Study for 'White' series

1996 · Oil stick on paper

9 x 6 7/8" (22.9 x 17.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

White #19

1994 · Oilstick, gesso, and acrylic on canvas mounted on wood

7' x 60" (213.3 x 152.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Cocaine (Pimps)

1993 · Oil stick, acrylic, and graphite pencil on linen

Overall: 32 3/16 × 32 × 1 1/2 in. (81.8 × 81.3 × 3.8 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Untitled from Runaways

1993 · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

composition (irreg.): 13 x 8 15/16" (33 x 22.7 cm); sheet: 16 x 12" (40.7 x 30.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Runaways

1993 · Portfolio of ten lithographs

composition: various dimensions; sheet (each): 16 x 12" (40.7 x 30.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Runaways

1993 · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

composition (irreg.): 11 13/16 x 8 15/16" (30 x 22.7 cm); sheet: 16 x 12" (40.7 x 30.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Runaways

1993 · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

composition (irreg.): 10 3/4 x 8 15/16" (27.3 x 22.7 cm); sheet: 16 x 12" (40.7 x 30.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Runaways

1993 · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

composition (irreg.): 10 1/16 x 8 15/16" (25.6 x 22.7 cm); sheet: 16 x 12" (40.7 x 30.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Runaways

1993 · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

composition (irreg.): 9 7/8 x 8 15/16" (25.1 x 22.7 cm); sheet: 16 x 12" (40.7 x 30.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Runaways

1993 · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

composition (irreg.): 10 5/8 x 8 15/16" (27 x 22.7 cm); sheet: 16 x 12" (40.7 x 30.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Runaways

1993 · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

composition (irreg.): 11 7/16 x 8 15/16" (29.1 x 22.7 cm); sheet: 16 x 12" (40.7 x 30.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Runaways

1993 · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

composition (irreg.): 13 3/8 x 8 15/16" (34 x 22.7 cm); sheet: 16 x 12" (40.7 x 30.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Runaways

1993 · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

composition (irreg.): 9 13/16 x 8 15/16" (25 x 22.7 cm); sheet: 16 x 12" (40.7 x 30.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Runaways

1993 · One from a portfolio of ten lithographs

composition (irreg.): 12 9/16 x 8 15/16" (31.9 x 22.7 cm); sheet: 16 x 12" (40.7 x 30.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Runaways

1993 · Portfolio of ten lithographs

Each sheet: 16 × 12 in. (40.6 × 30.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled (Four Etchings)

1992 · Series of four etching and aquatints

plate (each): 23 9/16 x 15 3/4" (59.8 x 40 cm); sheet (each): 25 1/8 x 17 3/8" (63.8 x 44.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Study for Black Like Me #2

1992 · Oilstick on paper

31 3/4 x 15" (80.6 x 38.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Study for Frankenstein #1

1992 · Oilstick on paper

31 3/4 x 16" (80.6 x 40.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled: Four Etchings

1992 · Four intaglio prints

1998.456.2a: 25 3/16 × 17 5/16 in. (63.9 × 44 cm) 1998.456.2b: 25 1/16 × 17 5/16 in. (63.7 × 44 cm) 1998.456.2c: 25 3/16 × 17 7/16 in. (63.9 × 44.3 cm) 1998.456.2d: 25 in. × 17 3/8 in. (63.5 × 44.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled (Four Etchings)

1992 · Set of four soft-ground etchings, aquatint, spit bite, and sugarlift on Fabriano

Sheet: 64 x 44 cm (25 3/16 x 17 5/16 in.); Platemark: 60 x 40.2 cm (23 5/8 x 15 13/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Backlash, Backlash...

1991 · Oilstick on heavy white wove card, ruled with graphite

77.5 × 41.3 cm (30 9/16 × 16 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (I am an invisible man)

1991 · Oilstick on paper

30 x 17 1/4" (76.2 x 43.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (How It Feels to Be Colored Me)

1991 · Oilstick on paper

31 3/4 x 16" (80.6 x 41 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

No. 333 (History)

1990 · Oil, oil stick, acrylic and graphite on paper

Sheet (Sight, Irregular): 30 × 22 1/4 in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

No. 752 (Colored People)

1990 · Oil, acrylic, oil stick, and graphite pencil on paper

Sheet (Sight, Irregular): 30 × 22 1/4 in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Untitled (I Remember the Very Day That I Became Colored)

1990 · Oil on wood

80 x 30 x 1 ⅜” (203.2 x 76.2 x 3.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Well, I am one who doesn't believe in deluding myself. [Malcolm X])

1989 · Oil stick, acrylic paint, and pencil on paper

28 3/4 x 41 3/4" (73 x 106 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (There is a consciousness we all have...)

1988 · Oil, oilstick, pencil, and acrylic on two sheets of paper

30 x 44 3/4" (76.2 x 111.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art