Adam Pendleton (b. 1984) is a central figure among a cross-generational group of painters redefining the medium as it relates to process and abstraction.

In 2024, he was honored with the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award for Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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 Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis; the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; and Tate London.

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