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ICA Speaks: Adam Pendleton
ICA Miami welcomes acclaimed New York–based artist Adam Pendleton to share insights into his conceptually rigorous, formally inventive practice. A central figure in contemporary American painting, Pendleton has redefined the medium through his engagement with process and abstraction. His paintings challenge established conventions and blur the boundaries between painting, drawing, and photography. Each painting comes to life through expressionistic flourishes, stark contrasts, and subtle variations of material, tone, and finish, balanced by a precision reminiscent of minimal and conceptual art.
Generative and poetic, his work across mediums creates fluid, resonant spaces for seeing, thinking, and feeling. In this talk, Pendleton will offer audiences a closer look at his approach and reflect on the prospects and possibilities of painting today.
About Adam Pendleton
In 2024, Pendleton (b.1984) was honored with the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (2025–2027); Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2024–2025); Adam Pendleton: Blackness, White, and Light, at mumok—Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria (2023–2024); Adam Pendleton: To Divide By, at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (2023–2024); Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2022); Adam Pendleton: These Things We’ve Done Together, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada (2022); and Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen?, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2021–2022).
Pendleton’s work is part of numerous public collections, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; the National Gallery of Canada, Ontario; and the Tate, London. Work by Pendleton recently entered ICA Miami’s permanent collection.