Representative work by Adam Pendleton
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Artist

Adam Pendleton

b. 1984, Richmond, Virginia, USA · American · Based in Brooklyn, New York, USA

  • Artspace Independent Study, Pietrasanta, Italy (2000–2002); self-taught conceptual artist
  • Black Dada Paintings
  • Silkscreen on Canvas
  • Film
  • Publishing
  • Ceramics

Adam Pendleton works across painting, silkscreen, installation and publishing using repeated text, appropriated imagery and the conceptual framework he calls Black Dada. Historical photographs, protest language, geometric marks and fragments of writing are layered into dense black-and-white compositions.

Painting; silkscreen; installation; publishing

Gallery Representation

Objects

Major Works

  • 2008 onwardBlack Dada
  • 2017Black Dada Reader
  • 2021Who Is Queen?
  • 2016Untitled (A Victim of American Democracy)
  • 2008 onwardSystem of Display
  • 2018Untitled (WE ARE NOT)
  • 2015Black Dada Flag
  • 2017Resurrection City Revisited
  • 2020Untitled (Days)
  • 2023An Abstraction

Museums & Public Collections

Interviews & Writing

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