He has served on the Board of Directors of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA).
Ligon gained prominence in the early 1990s, along with a generation of artists including Janine Antoni, Renée Green, Marlon Riggs, Gary Simmons, and Lorna Simpson. Most of the text that he used came from prominent African-American writers (James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison). While he started his career as an abstract painter, he began to introduce text and words into his work during the mid-1980s in order to better express his political concerns and ideas about racial identity. He continues to live and work in New York City. In 1985, he participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program. Ligon attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in 1985.Īfter graduating, he worked as a proofreader for a law firm, while in his spare time he painted, working in the abstract Expressionist style of Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. Ligon enrolled at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he spent two years before transferring to Wesleyan University. When he was seven, his divorced, working-class parents were able to get scholarships for him and his younger brother to attend Walden School, a high-quality, progressive, private school on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Ligon was born in 1960 in the Forest Houses Projects in the south Bronx.
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