Glenn on Glenn: Featuring Glenn Fuhrman and Glenn Ligon

Glenn on Glenn brought together two legendary contemporary art titans, Glenn Fuhrman and Glenn Ligon, in an intimate dialogue. Ligon is a renowned artist whose work, Skin Tight, 1995 is featured in Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing. Fuhrman is the founder of The FLAG Art Foundation, The Church’s exhibition collaborator for Strike Fast, Dance Lightly. The two discussed art, life, and boxing as a metaphor in contemporary art.

Ligon is a conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, and identity across a variety of media, including painting and neon, and has had numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Fuhrman is the Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner of investment partnership, Tru Arrow Partners, and the Co-Founder of MSD Capital, where he served as its Co-Managing Partner for over 20 years. The two Glenns are from different ends of the art world spectrum, though their shared passion and respect for art, as well as their tremendous careers, tie the two legends together.

ABOUT GLENN LIGON
Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is an artist living and working in New York. Throughout his career, Ligon has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across bodies of work that build critically on the legacies of modern painting and conceptual art. He earned his BA from Wesleyan University (1982) and attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (1985). In 2011, the Whitney Museum of American Art held a mid-career retrospective, “Glenn Ligon: America,” organized by Scott Rothkopf, that traveled nationally. Important solo exhibitions include “Post-Noir,” Carre d’Art, Nîmes (2022); “Glenn Ligon: Call and Response,” Camden Arts Centre, London (2014); and “Glenn Ligon – Some Changes,” The Power Plant Center for Contemporary Art, Toronto (traveled internationally) (2005). Select curatorial projects include “Grief and Grievance,” New Museum, New York (2021); Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis (2017); and “Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions,” Nottingham Contemporary and Tate Liverpool (2015). Ligon’s work has been shown in major international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2015, 1997), Berlin Biennial (2014), Istanbul Biennial (2019, 2011), and Documenta XI (2002).

ABOUT GLENN FUHRMAN
Glenn Fuhrman is a Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner of Tru Arrow Partners, an investment partnership based in New York, having previously Co-Founded MSD Capital and serving as its Co-Managing Partner for over 20 years. He is a Trustee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, The Museum of Modern Art and The TATE Americas Foundation and a Board Member of The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. He is also a Board Member of the 92nd Street Y and The Central Park Conservancy. In 2007 Glenn founded The FLAG Art Foundation, a nonprofit exhibition space in Chelsea, New York. In 2013, Glenn and his wife Amanda sponsored the creation of the nation’s largest free Wi-Fi network covering 95 city blocks in Harlem. In 2019, the Fuhrman’s launched the FLAG Award for Teaching Excellence which annually awards up to $500,000 to the most outstanding New York City public school teachers and their schools