Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place opens this week at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Best known for his text-based paintings which include the words of writers such as James Baldwin, Gertrude Stein and Zora Neale Hurston, Ligon’s work explores the social, cultural and political constructions of race. For All Over The Place, paintings, sculptures and prints by the artist will be accompanied by a series of his site-specific interventions, offering a new perspective on the Museum’s collection.

From the large-scale neon installation Waiting for the Barbarians (2021) in the Fitzwilliam's portico entrance, to the artist’s commentary on selected artworks and objects from the 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.”

Curated by Habda Rashid, Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Fitzwilliam Museum.

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue featuring conversations between Ligon and specialist curators from the museum.

Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place

20 September 2024–2 March 2025

The Fitzwilliam Museum
Trumpington Street
Cambridge
CB2 1RB