Adam Pendleton (born 1984) is an American

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known for his multi-disciplinary practice, involving

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...

silkscreen Screen printing is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink (or dye) onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh ...

collage Collage (, from the french: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together";) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ...

video Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) syste ...

performance A performance is an act of staging or presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment. It is also defined as the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function. Management science In the work place ...

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. His work often involves the investigation of

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of history through appropriated imagery. His art has been shown at the

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, and other shows internationally, including La Triennale at the

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'', December 17, 2012. The artist splits his time between

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Early life

Pendleton was born in 1984,

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. He went to

in 2002, at the age of 18, with the intention of becoming an artist.

Approach

In an interview with ''Bomb'' magazine, Thom Donovan describes Adam Pendleton as "a rare artist in his ability to synthesize disciplines and mediums, and to steer with collaborators toward 'total works,' which yet remain drafts of a larger essayistic practice. His works—like those of his many avant-garde forebears—are experimental in the truest sense. He sets up a laboratory in which our social and political desires can appear, however fleetingly. …With Pendleton’s work, even though we are often left with aporias and blind spots, we feel the force of historical matter self-organizing and finding form beyond representability and essence.” Pendleton often juxtaposes imagery, language, music and concepts from a variety of subjects such as philosophy and important historical movements, creating complex work that allows for multiple interpretations. He has often focused on significant moments in Black American history such as the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and the recent

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movement that emerged following the

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Career and work

In 2005 he joined the

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and had his first solo show, ''Deeper Down There''. The show featured two-color canvases with silkscreened lines from modern African-American literature and music, as well as paintings resembling enlarged record album covers. ''

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'' wrote that Pendleton "takes a coolly intellectual approach to hot subject matter". It likened his work to that of

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and

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, and praised it for its "provocative reticence."Ken Johnson
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'', May 20, 2005. In his 2007 performance piece, ''The Revival'', the artist, dressed in a white tuxedo jacket, black pants and bright green shoes, gave a sermon while accompanied by a 30-person

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. Pendleton’s homily, titled "a dream of an uncommon language," featured language borrowed from poets such as

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and

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, as well as "politico-speak and strident gay protest".Roslyn Sulcas
"Performa 07: Adam Pendleton, Artists and Statistics,"
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'', November 4, 2007. Also included in the revival were "testimonials" from contemporary artist

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and poet Jena Osman. Writing of the performance ''The New York Times'' art critic

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described Mr. Pendleton as "the most charismatic performer I’ve seen on stage for a long time." The piece was part of Performa Biennial 07 and was performed at Stephan Weiss studio. The 2009 video installation ''BAND tracks'' the process of the band

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as they develop and record a new song, ''I Did Crimes for You''. The video is loosely based on Godard’s film ''

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'', which features

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recording their song of the same name. In ''BAND'', footage of Deerhoof rehearsing is edited to include fragments from a 1971 documentary, Teddy, about a young member of the

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. The song’s lyrics consist of confrontational rhetoric characteristic of the late 1960s, while the voiceover from the documentary speaks of the prospects of change and the efficacy of such violence. Speaking of the video’s relationship to Godard’s film, Pendleton has said “it is not something that exists in its shadow, but rather in contrast to it.” In 2010, Pendleton was featured in MoMA PS1’s ''Greater New York'' exhibition. His installation, ''The Abolition of Alienated Labor'', included drawings and images appropriated from the 1950s African independence movement and from a 1960s Godard film, silk-screened onto large mirrors. The title of the work comes from a 1963

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work in which

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painted that phrase over an industrially produced painting by

Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio (1902–1964) was an Italian painter, the formulator of industrial painting, and a founding member of the Situationist International. He was also a scholar of popular culture, archaeology, nomadism, and botany. Mirella B ...

. The artist explains that “the works are framed within the context of the ethos of experimental gestures, the potential of a political framework—or rather, of a politicized framework.” "Black Dada" is a concept that informs much of the artist’s work. There is no explicit definition but the artist has described the idea as “a way to talk about the future while talking about the past. It is our present moment."Kevin McGarry
" Greater New Yorkers , Adam Pendleton,"
'' T (The New York Times Style Magazine)'', May 27, 2010. The ''Black Dada'' series of paintings contain a partial view of Sol LeWitt’s cube sculptures, accompanied by one or more letters derived from the phrase "Black Dada." The phrase comes from the 1964 poem "Black Dada Nihilismus" by

Amiri Baraka Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism. He was the author of numerous bo ...

. Pendleton states that the two words merge two ideas: “Dada, meaning ‘yes, yes’ and black as an open-ended signifier.” In 2011, Pendleton’s ''Black Dada (LK/LC/AA)'' was acquired by

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.Elizabeth Henderson
"Adam Pendleton and Mark Manders: Looking at Language in Two Recent Acquisitions,"

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', March 10, 2011. ''System of Display'' is a series of works involving mirrors, letters and silkscreened images appropriated from art publications and other books. The images include photographs of the

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during the 1955 DocumentaTom Williams
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'', February 9, 2011. and of a couple dancing in the street during a celebration of independence in Congo, as well as stills of

Anna Karina Anna Karina (born Hanne Karin Blarke Bayer; September 22, 1940 – December 14, 2019)

from Jean-Luc Godard’s film '' Made in U.S.A''. Pendleton has said, "I am working to establish a system of display, of organization. I want to create a situation where we're inclined to rethink notions of the past and the future, as well as our ability to understand them enough to make reductive statements." ''Becoming Imperceptible'' opened at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans in 2016, and traveled to MOCA Cleveland and MCA Denver. Its name comes from the philosophical writing of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. ''Becoming Imperceptible'' aims to create a “counter-portitrature” by blending the approaches of the historical avant garde with historical Black movements. The effect is the merging of disparate ideas, people and imagery, collectively blending and engaging each other in the space of art. In 2017, Pendleton published the ''Black Dada Reader'', a sourcebook containing photocopied texts by Haryette Mullen,

Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny West neighborhood and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris ...

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Hugo Ball Hugo Ball (; 22 February 1886 – 14 September 1927) was a German author, poet, and essentially the founder of the Dada movement in European art in Zürich in 1916. Among other accomplishments, he was a pioneer in the development of sound poetry. ...

Stokely Carmichael Kwame Ture (; born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael; June 29, 1941November 15, 1998) was a prominent organizer in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad, he grew up in the Unite ...

Ad Reinhardt Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt (December 24, 1913 – August 30, 1967) was an abstract painter active in New York for more than three decades. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) and part of the movement centere ...

Joan Retallack Joan Retallack (born October 13, 1941) is an American poet, critic, biographer, and multi-disciplinary scholar. She is the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College where she teaches courses in poetics, poethic ...

Ron Silliman Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wr ...

Adrian Piper Adrian Margaret Smith Piper (born September 20, 1948) is an American conceptual artist and Kantian philosopher. Her work addresses how and why those involved in more than one discipline may experience professional ostracism, otherness, racial ...

, and many others, as well as newly commissioned essays from several writers and curators. The book was named one of the best art books of 2017 by the ''New York Times''. In 2020, Pendleton created a unique and provocative cover for ''

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edition which featured a

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speech with imagery overlaid, suggesting a disconnect with America’s promise of freedom versus its continued post-slavery caste system.

Other activities

Drawing Center The Drawing Center is a Manhattan, New York, museum and a nonprofit exhibition space that focuses on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary. History The Drawing Center was founded by former assistant curator of drawings at ...

, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2020)

Art market

In 2012 Pendleton signed with

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at age 28, the youngest artist to do so since the 1970s. His first show with Pace was at the gallery’s

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London branch in the fall of 2012. Since 2020, he has also been working with David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles. Famous collectors include

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, Leonardo DiCaprio and

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Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions

* ''Adam Pendleton'',

Le Consortium Le Consortium is a contemporary art center based in Dijon founded by Xavier Douroux & Franck Gautherot, among others, from the association Le Coin du Miroir (The Corner Mirror). The center was run by Douroux, in collaboration with Gautherot and Er ...

(2020) *''List Projects: Adam Pendleton'',

MIT List Visual Arts Center Established in 1950, the List Visual Arts Center (LVAC) is the contemporary art museum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is known for temporary exhibitions in its galleries located in the MIT Media Lab building, as well as its admini ...

(2018) * ''Adam Pendleton: shot him in the face'',

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (also known simply as (the) Baltic, stylised as BALTIC) is a centre for contemporary art located on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. It hosts a frequently changing variety ...

(2017);

KW Institute for Contemporary Art The KW Institute for Contemporary Art (also known as Kunst-Werke) is a contemporary art institution located in Auguststraße 69 in Berlin-Mitte, Germany. Klaus Biesenbach was the founding director of KW; the current director is Krist Gruijthuijsen ...

(2017) * ''Becoming Imperceptible'',

Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these i ...

(2017);

Museum of Contemporary Art Denver The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA Denver), in Denver, Colorado, was founded in 1996 as the first dedicated home for contemporary art in the city of Denver. For seven years, MCA Denver occupied a renovated fish market in Sakura Square in lower dow ...

(2016);

Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans) The Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans is an arts complex located in historic downtown New Orleans. Founded in 1976, the center plays host to events and performances from visual arts to concert performances and lectures. General gallery admi ...

(2016) * ''Radio (ONE)'', Salina Art Center (2011) * ''Adam Pendleton: BAND'',

The Kitchen The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary avant-garde performance and experimental art institution located at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was founde ...

(2010) * ''Adam Pendleton: EL T D K Amsterdam'': Part I: ''three scenes'' (performance), Kunstverein, Amsterdam (2009); Part II: ''grey-blue grain'' (exhibition), Kunstverein, Amsterdam (2010); Part III: ''BAND'' (film screening) (2009)

Selected group exhibitions

* ''Public Movement: On Art, Politics, and Dance'',

Moderna Museet Moderna Museet ("the Museum of Modern Art"), Stockholm, Sweden, is a state museum for modern and contemporary art located on the island of Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, opened in 1958. In 2009, the museum opened a new branch in Malmö in t ...

(2017) * ''I am you, you are too'',

Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, t ...

(2017) * ''How to Live Together'',

Kunsthalle Wien Kunsthalle Wien is the city of Vienna's institution for international contemporary art and discourse with two locations, in the Museumsquartier and at Karlsplatz. Kunsthalle Wien does not have a collection of its own, but instead dedicates its c ...

(2017) * ''The Eighth Climate (What does art do?)'', 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016) * ''The Language of Things'',

Public Art Fund Public Art Fund is an independent, non-profit arts organization founded in 1977 by Doris Freedman, Doris C. Freedman. The organization presents contemporary art in New York City's public spaces through a series of highly visible artists' projects, n ...

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, New York (2016) * ''Personne et les autres'', Belgian Pavilion, 56th International Art Exhibition,

La Biennale di Venezia The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

(2015) * ''Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art'',

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts center in San Francisco, California, United States. Located in Yerba Buena Gardens, YBCA features visual art, performance, and film/video that celebrates local, natio ...

(2015); Walker Art Center (2014);

Studio Museum in Harlem The Studio Museum in Harlem is an American art museum devoted to the work of artists of African descent. The museum's galleries are currently closed in preparation for a building project that will replace the current building, located at 144 W ...

(2013);

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a not-for-profit institution in the Museum District, Houston, Texas, founded in 1948, dedicated to presenting contemporary art to the public. As a non-collecting museum, it strives to provide a forum for visual ...

(2013) * ''Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language'',

(2012) * ''La Triennale 2012: Intense Proximity'',

(2012) * ''Greater New York 2010'', P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (2010) * ''Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic'',

Tate Liverpool Tate Liverpool is an art gallery and museum in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and part of Tate, along with Tate St Ives, Cornwall, Tate Britain, London, and Tate Modern, London. The museum was an initiative of the Merseyside Development Corpo ...

(2010) * ''Talk Show'', Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2009) * ''The Generational: Younger Than Jesus'', New Museum of Contemporary Art (2009) * ''Performa 07: The Second Biennial of New Visual Art Performance'' (2007) * ''Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967'',

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contemporary ...

(2007)

Selected public collections

* Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh * Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York * Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence * Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago * Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego * The Museum of Modern Art, New York * Studio Museum in Harlem, New York * Tate, London * University of Chicago, Illinois

References

External links

Adam Pendleton websitePace Gallery / Adam PendletonShane Campbell Gallery / Adam Pendleton
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