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Adam Pendleton

Pendleton’s original and powerful body of work has been described as the embodiment of a new era. His multifaceted projects, which include painting, collage, film, and publishing,  re-contextualize historical and theoretical positions on abstraction, blackness, and the avant-garde. Working predominantly in black-and-white, Pendleton often creates ‘total works’  that envelop viewers and push the limits of contemporary discourse.

Adam Pendleton is currently represented by 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.

Born 1984
Hometown New York, NY
Lives and Works New York, NY
Education
Artspace Independent Study Program, Pietrasanta, Italy, 2010
Permanent Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Representing Galleries

Pace, New York, London, Beijing
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal

SHOWS

Pace Gallery

New York
Jun 24 2016 - Aug 19 2016

Blackness in Abstraction
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Articles

Harland Miller, Hilary Pecis, and Adam Pendleton create amphorae.
Harland Miller, Hilary Pecis, and Adam Pendleton create amphorae.

Seven artists have adorned the ceramic pots for the nonprofit charity:water.

Look Inside The New York City AIDS Memorial Auction
Look Inside The New York City AIDS Memorial Auction

Adam Pendleton, Nicolas Party, Dana Schutz, Jim Hodges, KAWS and other major artists donate work to a high-profile auction, benefitting the New York City AIDS Memorial

Ten great insights from ten great artists who made editions
Ten great insights from ten great artists who made editions

As Artspace celebrates its tenth anniversary we’re revisiting the wisdom of artists we’ve created editions with

Interview: Adam Pendleton on His New Artspace Edition
Interview: Adam Pendleton on His New Artspace Edition

The artist also tells us what’s on his reading list, about next year’s upcoming MoMA show, and how art has helped him through this difficult year

In Search of a More Equal Art History: A Q&A
In Search of a More Equal Art History: A Q&A

Curator Adrienne Edwards discusses the heady ideas animating her latest group show, which features 29 A-list artists from Robert Rauschenberg to Wangechi Mutu.

50 Stylish Paintings at Frieze London 2015
50 Stylish Paintings at Frieze London 2015

Here's a survey of the two-dimensional wares that are running rampant at the fair this year.

10 Artists to Watch This July
10 Artists to Watch This July

From a scene-stealing source of beauty at the Venice Biennale to America’s greatest living painter of flat people, these are the artists we’ll all be talking about this month.

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