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Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place

Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place 20 September 2024 – 2 March 2025 Experience the work of American contemporary artist Glenn Ligon in this landmark exhibition bringing together works by the artist alongside his unique interventions in The Fitzwilliam Museum's galleries. Widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary artists working today, Ligon is best known for his text-based paintings which include the words of writers such as James Baldwin, Gertrude Stein and Zora Neale Hurston. Through these artworks, he explores the social, cultural and political constructions of race.

  • 20th September 2024 - 2nd March 2025
  • 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Alongside Ligon’s original paintings, sculptures and prints, All Over The Place presents a series of site-specific interventions curated by the artist throughout the Museum aimed at peeling back the layers of history and meaning to reveal a new perspective of the permanent collection.

From the installation of his large-scale neon Waiting for the Barbarians (2021) in the Museum’s portico entrance to the artist’s commentary of select artworks and objects from the Museum’s collection. Ligon describes the exhibition as a ‘thread that winds its way through the Fitzwilliam, loose in some places, taut in others, which the visitor can choose to follow or encounter serendipitously.’

Funded by De Ying Foundation. With additional support from The Ampersand Foundation.

Glenn Ligon, ‘Untitled #40’, 2024. Carbon and graphite on Kozo paper, 45.7 x 30.5 cm

© Glenn Ligon; Courtesy of the artist, Hauser & Wirth, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photographer credit: Ronald Amstutz

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