ADAM PENDLETON

1984 Born in Richmond, Virginia, US
Lives and works in New York, US

Education
2000–2002 Artspace Independent Study Program, Pietrasanta, Italy

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026
Adam Pendleton: Some Wild Kind of Language, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands
Adam Pendleton: Can I Be?, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany

2025
Adam Pendleton: spray, light, layer, emerge, Pace Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Adam Pendleton: Anthology, Fundacion Canaria para el Desarrollo de la Pintura, Spain
Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

2024
Adam Pendleton: An Abstraction, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Adam Pendleton: These Gestures Towards You, Galerie Max Hetzler, London, United Kingdom

2023
Adam Pendleton: To Divide By, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Adam Pendleton: Blackness, White and Light, mumok (Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien), Vienna, Austria

2022
Adam Pendleton: Toy Soldier, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal, Zurich, Switzerland
Adam Pendleton: In Abstraction, Pace Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Adam Pendleton: These Things We’ve Done Together, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada

2021
Adam Pendleton: Paper, Pace Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, US
Adam Pendleton: Drawings, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France
Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US

2020
Adam Pendleton: Begin Again, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Adam Pendleton, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Adam Pendleton: Elements of Me, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, US

2019
Adam Pendleton: These Elements of Me, Pace Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Adam Pendleton: Who We Are, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

2018
Adam Pendleton: Our Ideas, Pace Gallery, London, England, United Kingdom
Adam Pendleton: New Works, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal
Adam Pendleton: what a day was this, Lever House, New York, US
List Projects: Adam Pendleton, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, US

2017
Adam Pendleton: Which We Can, Pace Gallery, Palo Alto, US
Adam Pendleton: shot him in the face, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England, United Kingdom
Front Room: Adam Pendleton, Baltimore Museum of Art, US
Adam Pendleton: shot him in the face, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

2016
Midnight in America, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Whole Fragments, Parra & Romero, Ibiza, Spain
Adam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, US; traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland

2015
Adam Pendleton: New Work, Pace Gallery, London, England, United Kingdom

2014
Adam Pendleton: Selected Works, Traves.a Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico
Adam Pendleton: Selected Works, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, US
Adam Pendleton, Pace Gallery, New York, US

2013
Adam Pendleton: Untitled (Fang Man from the Upper Ivindo Area, Northern Gabon, 1905-6/Furnishing Fabric, French or Italian, 1725-50), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, US

2012
Adam Pendleton: I’ll Be Your, Pace Gallery, London, England, United Kingdom

2011
Adam Pendleton: New Black Dada Paintings, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal
Adam Pendleton: the women, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, US
Adam Pendleton: Radio (ONE), Salina Art Center, US

2010
Adam Pendleton: BAND, The Kitchen, New York, US
Adam Pendleton, Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada
Adam Pendleton: chandelier across cognition generates glow linguistic signals perception, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal

2009
Adam Pendleton: EL T D K Amsterdam: Part I: three scenes (performance), Kunstverein, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Part II: grey-blue grain (exhibition), Kunstverein, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Part III: BAND (film screening), de Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2008
Adam Pendleton: Rendered in Black, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, US

2007
Adam Pendleton: Rendered in Black and Rendered, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, US

2005
Adam Pendleton: History, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, US
Deeper Down There, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, US
Gorilla, My Love, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, US

2004
Being Here, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
Being Here, Wallspace Gallery, New York, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026
Adam Pendleton + Antoni Tapies, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
This is not a monochrome II, Cayon, Madrid, Spain
This is not a monochrome, Cayon, Madrid, Spain
Life Imitates Art, Anthony Gallery, Chicago, US
The Art of Paper: Selections of Handmade Paper Works from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art at Kennesaw State University, traveled to Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, US; The Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI; Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY

2025
Sweeter than Honey: A Panorama of Written Art, Pinakothek der Moderne
Artist-in-Residence Alumni Installation, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, US
Yvonne Rainer: A Reader, The Centre R.gional d'Art Contemporain, S.te, France
Dialogues, Ordovas, London, England, United Kingdom
Brand X Editions: Innovation in Screenprinting, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
Pace: 65 Years, Pace Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Wallworks and Sculptures, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Nothing Is: Sun Ra and Others' Covers, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, US
On Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, London, England, United Kingdom

2024
Imaging Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, US
Scrawlspace, The 8th Floor, Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York, US
Inaugural Installation of the Rhonda & Howard Hawks Pavilion, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, US
The Phantom of Liberty, Anozero’24 – Bienal de Coimbra, Portugal
Speech Lives in a Series of Daily Attempts: Artists & Publishing, Wagner Foundation Gallery; traveled to Wagner Foundation, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, US
Adam Pendleton x Arlene Shechet, Galeria Pedro Cera, Madrid, Spain
On Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France
A Dark Hymn: Highlights from the Hill Collection, Hill Art Foundation, New York, US

2023
Triennial of Drawing 2023: All that Lies Between, Tegnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway
APMA, Chapter Four – From the APMA Collection, Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
In Defense of Symbolic Value: Artistic Procedures in the Resort, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; traveled to Saint Louis Art Museum, MO, ; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; Cincinnati Art Museum, OH; Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada

2022
Multiple Sights: 10th Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
Performing Documents: Modes of Assembling, Center of Book Arts, New York, US
Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It’s Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
This Tender, Fragile Thing, Jack Shainman Gallery, The School, Kinderhook

2021
Oehlen, Pendleton, Pope.L, Sillman, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Subliminal Horizons, Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown and New York, US
Portals, NEON, Athens, Greece
David Adjaye Adam Pendleton (two-person exhibition), Pace Gallery, Hong Kong
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York, US

2020
Artists for New York, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
To Be Determined, Dallas Museum of Art, US
Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
Mapping the Collection, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Chewing Gum IV, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong
Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Selections from the Rose Collection, 1933–2018, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, US

2019
If on a winter’s night a traveler, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Manifesto: Art X Agency, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, US
David Adjaye: Making Memory, Design Museum, London, England, United Kingdom
No Thing: Pope.L, Adam Pendleton (two-person exhibition), Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland

2018
Liam Gillick Adam Pendleton / Adam Pendleton Liam Gillick (two-person exhibition), Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, US
LeWitt, Nevelson, Pendleton Part II, Pace Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
DPAM Collects: Happy Little Trees and Other Recent Acquisitions, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, US
LeWitt, Nevelson, Pendleton, Pace Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, US

2017
Public Movement: On Art, Politics, and Dance, Moderna Museet, Malm., Sweden
Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, US
I am you, you are too, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
Art of Rebellion: Black Art of the Civil Rights Movement, Detroit Institute of Arts, US
How to Live Together, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin, Jewish Museum, New York, US

2016
Lorraine O’Grady: Initial Recognition, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain
The Eighth Climate (What does art do?), 11th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
The Revolution Will Not Be Gray, Aspen Art Museum, US
The Language of Things, Public Art Fund, City Hall Park, New York, US
Blackness in Abstraction, Pace Gallery, New York, US
New Visions, Tensta Konsthall, Sp.nga, Sweden

2015
The 2015 Biennial of the Americas: Now? NOW!, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, US
Personne et les autres, Belgian Pavilion, 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy
Sharon Hayes, Tony Lewis, Adam Pendleton, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US
Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915–2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, United Kingdom

2014
Civil Rights, Void, Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Selected Works, Traves.a Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
Love Story—Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection, 21er Haus and Winter Palace, Belvedere Museum Vienna, Austria
The Disappearance of the Fireflies, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Joan Jonas & Adam Pendleton (two-person exhibition), Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal

2013
The 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts: Interruption, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, US
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Grey Art Gallery at New York University, Body Language, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, US
After Hours 2: Murals on the Bowery, Art Production Fund, in partnership with The New Museum, New York, US

2012
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, US
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
La Triennale 2012: Intense Proximity, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Heart to Hand, Swiss Institute/Contemporary Art New York, New York, US

2011
A Promise is a Cloud, Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, US
Never Odd or Even, Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany
Fifth Contour Biennial, Mechelen, Belgium

2010
Quadruple-Consciousness, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, US
It Is Written, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Greater New York 2010, MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, US
Collected: Reflections on the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, US
Self as Disappearance, Centre d’Art Contemporain, La Synagogue de Delme, Delme, France
Desire, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, US
From Then to Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, US
Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

2009
The one hundred and sixty-third floor: Liam Gillick Curates the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, US 
The Prompt, Performa 09, New York, US
Cargo, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
Infinitesimal Eternity, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, US
Black Hole, Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, US
Encodings: Artists in Residence, 2008–2009, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, US
The columns held us up, Artists Space, New York, US
Talk Show, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, United Kingdom
The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US

2008
U-TURN: Perform History II, U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Aarhus Art Building, Aarhus, Denmark
Manifesto Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, England, United Kingdom
Manifesta 7: Matter of Fact, Manifattura Tabacchi, Rovereto, Italy
Freeway Balconies, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
The Future as Disruption, The Kitchen, New York, US
After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
Object, The Undeniable Success of Operations, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Mus.e d’art contemporain de Montreal, Canada
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, US
Hey Hey Glossolalia: The Eroticism of Pedagogy, Creative Time, Judson Memorial Church, New York, US

2007
Performa 07: The Second Biennial of New Visual Art Performance, New York, US
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, US
Resistance Is…, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

2006
Interstellar Low Ways, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, US
R.: Reading ’Ritin ’Rithmetic, 30 Years Later, Castle Gallery, Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom
Please Love Me, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, US
Figures de l’acteur: Le paradoxe du com.dien, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France

2005
Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, US
Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, US

2004
When Contemporary Art Speaks, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, US
Optimo: Manifestations of Optimism in Contemporary Art, Marfa Ballroom, US