Glenn Ligon, Untitled (America), 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris. Photo: Martin Argyroglo.
Galerie Chantal Crousel wishes to congratulate Glenn Ligon's induction into the American Academy of the Arts and Letters. Membership in the Academy is limited to 300 architects, visual artists, composers, and writers who are elected for life and pay no dues. The new members were elected by vote of the existing membership.
Since the 1990s, Glenn Ligon has been exploring American history, literature and society by focusing on words, their meaning and illegibility.
The honor of election is considered the highest form of recognition of artistic merit in the United States.
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