After Hours 2: Murals on the Bowery, The Bowery, New York
25 April – 29 September
Derrick Adams, Ricci Albenda, Ellen Berkenblit, Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Michael Craig-Martin, Sylvie Fleury, Alex Israel, Kerry James Marshall, Oscar Murillo, Laura Owens, Adam Pendleton, Dana Schutz, and Wendy White
Untitled, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
17 April – October
For the 36-foot-high art installation on the Museum facade, Pendelton has juxtaposed a photographic portrait of a Fang Man from the Upper Ivindo area in Northern Gabon, Africa at the turn of the last century against a mid-18th century European silk damask from the Gardner Museum’s collection.
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston
17 November – 16 February
Theaster Gates, Girl [Chitra Ganesh + Simone Leigh], David Hammons, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Lyle Ashton Harris, Maren Hassinger, Kalup Linzy, Dave McKenzie, Senga Nengudi, Tameka Norris, Lorraine O’Grady, Clifford Owens, Benjamin Patterson, Adam Pendleton, Adrian Piper, Pope.L, Carrie Mae Weems, amongst others
Phantom Limb, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
5 May – 11 October
Kerstin Bratsch, Wade Guyton, Sergej Jensen, Rebecca Morris, Adam Pendleton, Sterling Ruby, amongst others
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, MoMA, New York, NY
6 May – 27 August
Ei Arakawa/Nikolas Gambaroff, Tauba Auerbach, Dexter Sinister (David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey), Trisha Donnelly, Shannon Ebner, Paul Elliman, Experimental Jetset, Sharon Hayes, Karl Holmqvist, Paulina Olowska, Adam Pendleton, and Nora Schultz
Heart to Hand, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
7 March – 15 April
Zoe Leonard, Klara Liden, Adam Pendleton, and Oscar Tuazon/Elias Hansen
A Promise is a Cloud, Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY
5 November – September, 2012
Ohad Meromi, Adam Pendleton, Erin Shirreff, and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries