Adam Pendleton

Adam Pendleton is an American conceptual artist known for his diverse, multi-disciplinary practice spanning painting, silkscreen, collage, video, performance, and word art. His body of work reflects our increasingly sensorial engagement with the world, embodying a form of abstraction that redefines visual composition for the twenty-first century through its painterly, psychic, and verbal expressions. Exploring Blackness as both a color and a complex identity, his art delves into its multifaceted dimensions, serving as a conduit for political discourse and introspection. Interrogating the legacy of modernism, Pendleton revitalizes ideas from historical avant-gardes, transcending mediums and temporal boundaries. Since 2008, he has articulated much of his artistic inquiry through the concept of Black Dada, a dynamic exploration of the intersections between Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. This visual philosophy challenges conventional boundaries, blurring the lines between legibility and abstraction, past and present, and the familiar and the unfamiliar, emphasizing the role of difference in the construction of meaning.

Pendleton has been the subject of solo exhibitions at prestigous instiutions worldwide such as mumok in Vienna (2023), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2022), the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2021), Le Consortium in Dijon (2020), and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2017). Additionally, his work has also been featured in the Whitney Biennial (2022), the Venice Biennale (2015), and other prominent group exhibitions, including Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America at the New Museum in New York (2021). entral to Pendleton's practice is writing and publishing, with numerous books to his credit, including "Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths" (2021), "Who Is Queen? A Reader" (2021), "Heavy as Sculpture" (2021), and "Black Dada Reader" (2017). Represented by esteemed galleries including PACE in New York, London, and Hong Kong; David Kordansky in Los Angeles; Max Hetzler in Berlin; Pedro Cera in Lisbon; and Eva Presenhuber in Zurich, Pendleton continues to push the boundaries of contemporary art with his thought-provoking and multidimensional practice.