awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. In 2005, he won an Alphonse Fletcher Foundation Fellowship for his art work. In 2006 he was awarded the Skowhegan Medal for Painting. In 2009, he received the Studio Museum’s Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize. In 2010, he won a United States Artists Fellow award. In 2009, President Barack Obama added Ligon's 1992 Black Like Me No. 2, on loan from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, to the White House collection, where it was installed in the President's private living quarters. The text in the selected painting is from John Howard Griffin's 1961 memoir Black Like Me, the account of a white man's experiences traveling through the South after he had his skin artificially darkened. The words "All traces of the Griffin I had been were wiped from existence" are repeated in capital letters that progressively overlap until they coalesce as a field of black paint. At the annual Gala in the Garden at the Hammer Museum in 2018, he was honored by attorney and social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson. In 2018, Ligon was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from The New School. In 2021, Ligon was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Art market Ligon is represented by Hauser & Wirth in New York, Regen Projects in Los Angeles, Thomas Dane Gallery in London, and Chantal Crousel in Paris. See also African-American art African-American literature Conceptual art Glenn Ligon at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN References External links Annotations Glenn Ligon: Some changes at Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean - Mudam Luxembourg Glenn Ligon at Regen Projects National Gallery of Art. 1960 births Living people Wesleyan University alumni American printmakers African-American contemporary artists American contemporary artists Flash artists American conceptual artists People from the Bronx Artists from the Bronx LGBT African Americans American LGBT artists Walden School (New York City) alumni African-American printmakers Gay artists 21st-century African-American people 20th-century African-American people