Adam

Pendleton

Born in 1984 in Richmond, United States
Lives and works in New York

Adam Pendleton, a central figure in contemporary American art, is known for paintings that have redefined the boundaries of abstraction. Upending linear compositional logic, Pendleton’s paintings are created through a distilled layering of gesture, fragment, and form. 

2025

“Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen” , Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington

2023

“Adam Pendleton: To Divide By”, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis

“Adam Pendleton: Blackness, White and Light”, mumok, Wien

2022

“Adam Pendleton: These Things We’ve Done Together”, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

2021

“Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?”, Museum of Modern Art, New York

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