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Untitled (I'm Turning Into a Specter Before Your Very Eyes and I'm Going to Haunt You) 1992, Oil and gesso on canvas. The Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Glenn Ligon is an American conceptual artist. Born in 1960 in the Bronx, he graduated with a B.A. from Wesleyan University and currently lives and works in New York City.^[1] He works in multiple media, including painting, video, photography, and digital media such as Adobe Flash for his work Annotations. Ligon is best known for his large, text-based paintings in which a chosen phrase is repeated over and over, eventually dissipating into murk. Another series of large paintings was based on children's interpretations of 1970s black-history coloring books. Ligon's work is greatly informed by his experiences as an African American and as a gay man living in the United States. In 2005, Ligon won an Alphonse Fletcher Foundation Fellowship for his art work.

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-'''Glenn Ligon''' (born [[1960]]) is an American [[conceptual artist]]. He works in multiple media, including painting, video, photography, and digital media such as [[Adobe Flash]] for his work ''Annotations''. Ligon is best known for his large, text-based paintings in which a chosen phrase is repeated over and over, eventually dissipating into murk. Another series of large paintings was based on children's interpretations of 1970s black-history coloring books. Ligon's work is greatly informed by his experiences as an [[African American]] and as a [[gay]] [[man]] living in the United States. In 2005, Ligon won an Alphonse [[Fletcher Foundation]] Fellowship for his art work.
+'''Glenn Ligon''' is an American [[conceptual artist]]. Born in 1960 in the [[Bronx]], he graduated with a B.A. from [[Wesleyan University]] and currently lives and works in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.broadartfoundation.org/collection/ligon.html}}</ref>  He works in multiple media, including painting, video, photography, and digital media such as [[Adobe Flash]] for his work ''Annotations''. Ligon is best known for his large, text-based paintings in which a chosen phrase is repeated over and over, eventually dissipating into murk. Another series of large paintings was based on children's interpretations of 1970s black-history coloring books. Ligon's work is greatly informed by his experiences as an [[African American]] and as a [[gay]] [[man]] living in the United States. In 2005, Ligon won an Alphonse [[Fletcher Foundation]] Fellowship for his art work.
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