ADAM PENDLETON
PAGE BOND GALLERY
ADAM PENDLETON
Lives and works in New York, NY
STATEMENT & BIO
Adam Pendleton’s (b. 1984, Richmond, Virginia) work is a reflection of how we increasingly move through and experience the world on a sensorial level—a form of abstraction that, in its painterly, psychic, and verbal expression, announces a new mode of visual composition for the twenty-first century. It investigates Blackness as a color, an identity, a method, and a political subject—in short, as a multitude. His work also poses questions about the legacy of modernism in the present day, reactivating ideas from historic avant-gardes across mediums and moments in time. Since 2008 he has articulated much of his work through the frame of Black Dada, an evolving inquiry into the relationships between Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. It’s a visual philosophy that confounds the distinctions between legibility and abstraction, past and present, familiar and strange, reminding us that meaning always develops through difference.
His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at such notable museums as 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 featured in the Whitney Biennial (2022), the Venice Biennale (2015), and other prominent group exhibitions, including Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America at the New Museum in New York (2021).
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$ 15,000.00
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The Silence Perpetuates, 2005
Silkscreen ink on canvas, Ed. of 3 43 3/8 x 36 7/8 inches
Midnight Reds, 2005
Silkscreen ink on canvas, Ed. of 3
36 5/8 x 32 inches
$ 15,000.00
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Untitled (WHO IS QUEEN?), 2021
Transferred pulp on cotton handmade paper, Edition 4/35 24 x 18 1/2 inches
$ 7,500.00
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Untitled (days for drawing), 2023 Ink, spray paint and oil on paper, in artist’s frame 14 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches
$ 20,000.00
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Untitled (days for drawing), 2023 Ink, spray paint and oil on paper, in artist’s frame 14 1/2 x 14 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches
$ 20,000.00
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Untitled (Collage), 2022 Collage on paper
19 1/4 x 14 5/8 inches, 21 5/8 x 17 x 1 1/2 inches (framed)
$ 25,000.00
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Untitled (days for drawing), 2022 Ink, spray paint and oil on paper
29 1/4 x 44 1/8 inches, 31 3/4 x 46 3/4 x 1 3/4 inches (framed)
$ 65,000.00
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Untitled, 2019
Set of fourteen relief prints with cast and stenciled paper 24 x 18 1/2 inches, each $ 125,000.00
24 x 30 inches, 25 7/8 x 31 3/4 x 2 1/8 inches
$ 150,000.00
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AWAY/WALL, 2023
Silkscreen ink on canvas
96 x 120 inches
$ 475,000.00
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HELD/WALL, 2022
Silkscreen ink on canvas
120 x 144 inches
$ 625,000.00
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Untitled (Days), 2022
Silkscreen ink on canvas
ADAM PENDLETON
Abbreviated CV
b. 1984, Richmond, VA
Lives and works in Germantown, NY and Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2002 Artspace Independent Study Program, Pietrasanta, Italy
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2025 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
2024 An Abstraction, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Adam Pendleton x Arlene Shechet, Pedro Cera, Madrid, Spain
These Gestures Towards You, Galerie Max Hetzler, London, England
2023 To Divide By, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Untitled (Giant not to scale), Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade @ Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
Blackness, White, and Light, curated by Marianne Dobner, Mumok, Vienna, Austria
2022 Toy Soldier, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Maag Areal, Zurich, Switzerland
In Abstraction, Pace Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
These Things We’ve Done Together, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
2021 Who Is Queen?, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Tate, London
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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ADAM PENDLETON
Catalog Design
Rachel Crawford, Gallery Registrar
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