Adam Pendleton was born on 1984 and is an American conceptual artist known for his multi-disciplinary practice, involving painting, silkscreen, collage, video, performance, and word art.
17 Facts About Adam Pendleton
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Adam Pendleton's art has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, the New Museum, and other shows internationally, including La Triennale at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.
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Adam Pendleton has been featured twice in Forbes Magazines "30 Under 30" list.
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Adam Pendleton's father is a musician and contractor, and his mother is a retired elementary schoolteacher.
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Adam Pendleton has an older brother and a younger sister.
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Adam Pendleton finished high school two years early, and for college he attended the Artspace Independent Study Program in Peitrasanta, Italy.
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Adam Pendleton has often focused on significant moments in Black American history such as the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and the recent Black Lives Matter movement that emerged following the killing of Trayvon Martin.
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In 2004, Adam Pendleton landed his first solo show, Being Here at Wallspace in Manhattan.
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The New York Times wrote that Adam Pendleton "takes a coolly intellectual approach to hot subject matter".
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Adam Pendleton's homily, titled "a dream of an uncommon language," featured language borrowed from poets such as John Ashbery, Charles Bernstein and Donald Hall, as well as "politico-speak and strident gay protest".
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In 2010, Adam Pendleton was featured in MoMA PS1's Greater New York exhibition.
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In 2017, Adam Pendleton published the Black Dada Reader, a sourcebook containing photocopied texts by Haryette Mullen, Gertrude Stein, Sun Ra, Hugo Ball, Stokely Carmichael, Ad Reinhardt, Joan Retallack, Ron Silliman, Adrian Piper, and many others, as well as newly commissioned essays from several writers and curators.
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In 2020, Adam Pendleton created a unique and provocative cover for The New York Times Magazine July 4 edition which featured a Frederick Douglass speech with imagery overlaid, suggesting a disconnect with America's promise of freedom versus its continued post-slavery caste system.
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In 2012, Adam Pendleton signed with Pace Gallery at age 28, the youngest artist to do so since the 1970s.
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Adam Pendleton's first show with Pace was at the gallery's Soho London branch in the fall of 2012.
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Since 2020, Adam Pendleton has been working with David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles.
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Adam Pendleton jointly purchased Simone's childhood home in 2017 along with Ellen Gallagher, Rashid Johnson, and Julie Mehretu.