
Adam Pendleton is a conceptual artist known for his multi-disciplinary practice, which moves fluidly between painting, publishing, photographic collage, video, and performance. His work centers on an engagement with language, in both the figurative and literal senses, and the recontextualization of history through appropriated imagery to establish alternative interpretations of the present and, as the artist has explained, “a future dynamic where new historical narratives and meanings can exist.”
Untitled (WE ARE NOT)
2021
Silkscreen ink on canvas
305 x 366 cm / 120 x 144 in
© Adam Pendleton
Untitled (WE ARE NOT)
2020–2021
Silkscreen ink on canvas
244 x 305 cm / 96 x 120 in
© Adam Pendleton
Untitled (WE ARE NOT)
2020
Silkscreen ink on canvas
244 x 175.5 cm / 96 × 69 in
© Adam Pendleton
Untitled (WE ARE NOT)
2019
Silkscreen ink on canvas
244 x 305 cm / 96 x 120 in
© Adam Pendleton
Untitled (WE ARE NOT)
2019
Silkscreen ink on canvas
244 × 175.5 cm / 96 × 69 in
© Adam Pendleton
Untitled (masks)
2019
Silkscreen ink on Mylar, 4 parts
Overall dimensions variable
Sheet, each 131 x 101 cm / 51 1/2 x 39 1/2 in
Frame, each 138 x 108 cm / 54 1/4 x 42 1/4 in
© Adam Pendleton
Black Dada (A/A)
2019
Silkscreen ink on canvas, 2 parts
Overall dims. 244 × 193 cm / 96 × 76 in
Panel, each 122 × 193 cm / 48 × 76 in
© Adam Pendleton
Black Dada Drawing (C)
2018–2019
Silkscreen on paper
Sheet 66.5 × 53 cm / 26 1/8 × 20 3/4 in
Frame 71 × 57 cm / 27 13/16 × 22 7/16 in
© Adam Pendleton
Black Dada Drawing (D/D)
2018
Silkscreen ink on paper
Sheet 66.5 × 53 cm / 26 1/8 × 20 3/4 in
Frame 71 × 57 cm / 27 13/16 × 22 7/16 in
© Adam Pendleton
Ishmael in the Garden: A Portrait of Ishmael Houston-Jones
2018
Black-and-white and color video, 24 minutes 15 seconds
Dimensions variable
© Adam Pendleton
System of Display, I (WRITING/Art of Black Africa, Kunsthaus Zurich, 1970)
2018
Silkscreen ink on plexiglass and mirror
25 x 25 x 8 cm / 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 x 3 1/8 in
© Adam Pendleton
System of Display, D (AROUND/Jean-Marie Straub, Not Reconciled, Or Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules, 1965)
2011
Silkscreen ink on plexiglass and mirror
25 x 25 x 8 cm / 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 x 3 1/8 in
© Adam Pendleton
Untitled (WE ARE NOT)
2021
Silkscreen ink on canvas
305 x 366 cm / 120 x 144 in
© Adam Pendleton
Untitled (WE ARE NOT)
2020–2021
Silkscreen ink on canvas
244 x 305 cm / 96 x 120 in
© Adam Pendleton
Untitled (WE ARE NOT)
2020
Silkscreen ink on canvas
244 x 175.5 cm / 96 × 69 in
© Adam Pendleton
Untitled (WE ARE NOT)
2019
Silkscreen ink on canvas
244 x 305 cm / 96 x 120 in
© Adam Pendleton
Untitled (WE ARE NOT)
2019
Silkscreen ink on canvas
244 × 175.5 cm / 96 × 69 in
© Adam Pendleton
Untitled (masks)
2019
Silkscreen ink on Mylar, 4 parts
Overall dimensions variable
Sheet, each 131 x 101 cm / 51 1/2 x 39 1/2 in
Frame, each 138 x 108 cm / 54 1/4 x 42 1/4 in
© Adam Pendleton
Black Dada (A/A)
2019
Silkscreen ink on canvas, 2 parts
Overall dims. 244 × 193 cm / 96 × 76 in
Panel, each 122 × 193 cm / 48 × 76 in
© Adam Pendleton
Black Dada Drawing (C)
2018–2019
Silkscreen on paper
Sheet 66.5 × 53 cm / 26 1/8 × 20 3/4 in
Frame 71 × 57 cm / 27 13/16 × 22 7/16 in
© Adam Pendleton
Black Dada Drawing (D/D)
2018
Silkscreen ink on paper
Sheet 66.5 × 53 cm / 26 1/8 × 20 3/4 in
Frame 71 × 57 cm / 27 13/16 × 22 7/16 in
© Adam Pendleton
Ishmael in the Garden: A Portrait of Ishmael Houston-Jones
2018
Black-and-white and color video, 24 minutes 15 seconds
Dimensions variable
© Adam Pendleton
System of Display, I (WRITING/Art of Black Africa, Kunsthaus Zurich, 1970)
2018
Silkscreen ink on plexiglass and mirror
25 x 25 x 8 cm / 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 x 3 1/8 in
© Adam Pendleton
System of Display, D (AROUND/Jean-Marie Straub, Not Reconciled, Or Only Violence Helps Where Violence Rules, 1965)
2011
Silkscreen ink on plexiglass and mirror
25 x 25 x 8 cm / 9 7/8 x 9 7/8 x 3 1/8 in
© Adam Pendleton