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I was in the 1993 Whitney Biennial and the 1994 'Black Male' show at the Whitney, and I've never seen such vicious press. Twenty plus years later, critics who hated that Biennial have come to Jesus and decided it was a really important, seminal show that they misunderstood.

~Glenn Ligon

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An artwork is an arrangement of things. The ideal show for me would be if everything touched, literally touched, so that everything would blur together.

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The Carrie Mae Weems photograph 'Blue Black Boy,' I thought, was fantastic.

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'A Small Band' was commissioned for the facade of the Central Pavilion at the Fifty-Sixth Venice Biennale in 2013.

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I met Obama once, backstage at the Apollo in Harlem.

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Much of my work is engaged with 'America' - the idea of America.

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Things like Ferguson and Eric Garner show us there's an unequal distribution of forward momentum in America.

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So much of my work has been about disappearing.

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One of the interesting things about quoting in an artwork is that there is a repeated confusion about who is speaking - one essentially becomes the author of a quote one uses.

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Race is not something inherent to one's being: One does feel more or less colored, depending on the situation.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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