Born in 1984 in Richmond, United States
Lives and works in New York
Adam Pendleton, a central figure in contemporary American painting, continuously redefines the medium as it relates to process and abstraction. Upending linear compositional logic, Pendleton’s paintings are created by a distilled layering of gesture, fragment, and form that mirrors the cacophony of contemporary experience.
“Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen” , Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
“Adam Pendleton: To Divide By”, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
“Adam Pendleton: Blackness, White and Light”, mumok, Wien
“Adam Pendleton: These Things We’ve Done Together”, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
“Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
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