Adam Pendleton (b. 1984) is a New York-based artist whose work is animated by what the artist calls “Black Dada,” a critical articulation of blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. Drawing
from an archive of language and images, Pendleton makes collages, paintings, videos, and other objects that seek to reconfigure received histories of culture. His work is held in the permanent collections of museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and Tate, London.