b. 1984
American conceptual artist Adam Pendleton was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1984. His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, silkscreen, collage, video and performance. He is best known for his impassioned large-scale word art. Since 2008 he has articulated most of his work through the frame of Black Dada, an evolving investigation into the relationships between Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. Pendleton currently lives and works in New York.
His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at notable museums including 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). His work has also been shown at the Whitney Biennial (2022), the Venice Biennale (2015). Other notable group exhibitions include ‘Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America’ at the New Museum in New York (2021). Pendleton’s books include Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths (2021), Who Is Queen? A Reader (2021), Heavy as Sculpture (2021) and Black Dada Reader (2017).
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Adam Pendleton: “Abstraction is a big question”
