Adam Pendleton
Born: 1984
in Richmond (USA).
He lives and works in New York (USA).
Adam Pendleton is a multidisciplinary artist whose work includes installations, performances, videos, texts and paintings. He recontextualises historic art movements like Dada and minimalist art, and disciplines like literature and contemporary dance, while also highlighting historic events and figures of the African American civil rights struggle, such as Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Since 2012, Adam
Pendleton has been creating video “portraits” of artists and thinkers (Lorraine O’Grady, 2012; David Hilliard, 2011-2014 ; Yvonne Rainer, 2016-2017 ; Ishmael Houston-Jones, 2018 ; Kyle Abraham, 2018-2019 ; and Jack Halberstam, 2021), partly inspired by Gertrude Stein’s literary self-portraits. These portraits do not seek to reconstruct their subjects in the form of a simple documentary, but are rather a collage of personal memories, texts and images.
