ADAM PENDLETON

1984 Nato a Richmond, Virginia, US
Vive e lavora a New York, US

Formazione
2000–2002 Artspace Independent Study Program, Pietrasanta, Italia

Selezione Mostre Personali

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

2025
Adam Pendleton: spray, light, layer, emerge, Pace Gallery, Berlino, Germania
Adam Pendleton: Anthology, Fundacion Canaria para el Desarrollo de la Pintura, Spagna
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, Londra, Regno Unito

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, Zurigo, Svizzera
Adam Pendleton: In Abstraction, Pace Gallery, Ginevra, Svizzera
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, Parigi, Francia
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, Digione, Francia
Adam Pendleton: Elements of Me, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, US

2019
Adam Pendleton: These Elements of Me, Pace Gallery, Seoul, Corea del Sud
Adam Pendleton: Who We Are, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlino, Germania

2018
Adam Pendleton: Our Ideas, Pace Gallery, Londra, Inghilterra, Regno Unito
Adam Pendleton: New Works, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbona, Portogallo
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, Inghilterra, Regno Unito
Front Room: Adam Pendleton, Baltimore Museum of Art, US
Adam Pendleton: shot him in the face, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlino, Germania

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

2015
Adam Pendleton: New Work, Pace Gallery, Londra, Inghilterra, Regno Unito

2014
Adam Pendleton: Selected Works, Traves.a Cuatro, Guadalajara, Messico
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, Londra, Inghilterra, Regno Unito

2011
Adam Pendleton: New Black Dada Paintings, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbona, Portogallo
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, Lisbona, Portogallo

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

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

Mostre collettive selezionate

2026
Adam Pendleton + Antoni Tapies, Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli, Italia
This is not a monochrome II, Cayon, Madrid, Spagna
This is not a monochrome, Cayon, Madrid, Spagna
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, Francia
Dialogues, Ordovas, Londra, Inghilterra, Regno Unito
Brand X Editions: Innovation in Screenprinting, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
Pace: 65 Years, Pace Gallery, Ginevra, Svizzera
Wallworks and Sculptures, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurigo, Svizzera
Nothing Is: Sun Ra and Others' Covers, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, US
On Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Londra, Inghilterra, Regno Unito

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, Portogallo
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, Spagna
On Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Parigi, Francia
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, Norvegia
APMA, Chapter Four – From the APMA Collection, Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, Corea del Sud
In Defense of Symbolic Value: Artistic Procedures in the Resort, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlino, Germania
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, Francoforte, Germania; Cincinnati Art Museum, OH; Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada

2022
Multiple Sights: 10th Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, Cina
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, Berlino, Germania
Subliminal Horizons, Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown and New York, US
Portals, NEON, Atene, Grecia
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, Colonia, Germania
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, Israele
Manifesto: Art X Agency, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, US
David Adjaye: Making Memory, Design Museum, Londra, Inghilterra, Regno Unito
No Thing: Pope.L, Adam Pendleton (two-person exhibition), Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurigo, Svizzera

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, Ginevra, Svizzera
DPAM Collects: Happy Little Trees and Other Recent Acquisitions, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, US
LeWitt, Nevelson, Pendleton, Pace Gallery, Ginevra, Svizzera
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., Svezia
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, Siviglia, Spagna
The Eighth Climate (What does art do?), 11th Gwangju Biennale, Corea del Sud
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, Svezia

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, Italia
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, Londra, Inghilterra, Regno Unito

2014
Civil Rights, Void, Derry, Irlanda del Nord, Regno Unito
Selected Works, Traves.a Cuatro, Guadalajara, Messico
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, Avignone, Francia
Joan Jonas & Adam Pendleton (two-person exhibition), Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbona, Portogallo

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, Parigi, Francia
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, Berlino, Germania
Fifth Contour Biennial, Mechelen, Belgio

2010
Quadruple-Consciousness, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, US
It Is Written, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, Francia
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, Francia
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, Inghilterra, Regno Unito

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, Berlino, Germania
Infinitesimal Eternity, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, US
Black Hole, Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca, Spagna
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, Londra, Inghilterra, Regno Unito
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, Danimarca
Manifesto Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, Londra, Inghilterra, Regno Unito
Manifesta 7: Matter of Fact, Manifattura Tabacchi, Rovereto, Italia
Freeway Balconies, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlino, Germania
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, Paesi Bassi
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, Scozia, Regno Unito
Please Love Me, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, US
Figures de l’acteur: Le paradoxe du com.dien, Collection Lambert, Avignone, Francia

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