Adam Pendleton

Original exhibition invitations, announcements, and printed matter issued for Adam Pendleton's gallery and institutional presentations. Pendleton (b. 1984) works across painting, video, and text, developing a practice centred on the Black Dada project — a sustained investigation into abstraction, political language, and the history of the avant-garde. Items here document exhibitions at Pace Gallery (New York, London, Geneva), museum presentations, and Biennale participations including the Belgian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale, 2015. Produced for distribution rather than preservation, surviving examples function as primary records of Pendleton's exhibition history and early institutional circulation.

  • Original 2015 Pace London exhibition invitation for Adam Pendleton, New Work, front cover, plain white card with PACE LONDON in bold stencil-style black capitals centred on the page, no other text or image. Interior spread of 2015 Pace London exhibition invitation for Adam Pendleton, New Work, showing a full-bleed black-and-white reproduction of a work from Pendleton's Black Dada series: a dark ground with BLACK / LIVES / MATTER in large white hand-painted capitals overlaid on a photographic image of a figure, the lower portion of the text partially obscured by a collaged dark rectangular element, the whole image printed with high contrast on the card interior.

    Adam Pendleton — New Work, Pace London, 2015

    Adam Pendleton — New Work, Pace London, 2015