Adam Pendleton is a painter known for his distinct and conceptually rigorous works, which moves fluidly between painting, publishing, photographic collage, video and performance. His work centers on an engagement with language, in both the figurative and literal senses, and the re-contextualization of history through appropriated imagery to establish alternative interpretations of the present and, as the artist has explained, “a future dynamic where new historical narratives and meanings can exist.” 

The artist currently has a museum exhibtion Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen, which is on display through April 4, 2025–Jan 3, 2027 at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. Pendleton’s work is held in numerous public collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Tate, London.