2023
Distant Voices
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
2022
Burning at the Edges
Longlati Foundation, Shanghai
On Certainty: Gifts from Collection of Suzanne F. Cohen
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Performing Documents: Modes of Assembling
Center for Book Arts, New York
This Tender, Fragile Thing
Jack Shainman Gallery, The School, Kinderhook, New York
Seoul Pop-Up Exhibition
David Kordansky Gallery, Seoul
2021
Oehlen, Pendleton, Pope.L, Sillman
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Subliminal Horizons
Alexander Gray Associates, Germantown & New York
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
New Museum, New York (catalogue)
APMA, CHAPTER THREE – from the APMA Collection
Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul
2020
Artists for New York
Hauser & Wirth, New York
Drawing 2020
Gladstone Gallery, New York
To Be Determined
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Mapping the Collection
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Yesterday's Tomorrow: Selections from the Rose Collection, 1933–2018
Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham
2019
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Manifesto: Art X Agency
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
Surface Tension
Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York
2018
LeWitt, Nevelson, Pendleton Part II
Pace Gallery, Geneva
Acquisition Selection 2018
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
DPAM Collects: Happy Little Trees and Other Recent Acquisitions
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
LeWitt, Nevelson, Pendleton
Pace Gallery, Geneva
Second Sight: The Paradox of Vision in Contemporary Art
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick
2017
Public Movement: On Art, Politics, and Dance
Moderna Museet, Malmö
Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance
Museum of Contemporray Art, Detroit
I am you, you are too
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
How to live together
Kunsthalle wien, Vienna
The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin
The Jewish Museum, New York
American African American
Phillips, London
OCCUPY MANA: Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy (Year 1)
Mana Contemporary, Jersey City
2016
The Eighth Climate (What does Art do?)
11th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
The revolution will not be grey
Aspen Art Musuem, Colorado
The language of things
Public art fund, City Hall Park, New York
Blackness in Abstraction
Pace Galley, New York
New Visions
Tensta Konsthall, Spanga
Lorraine O´Grady: Initial Recognition
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville
2015
Personne et les autres
Belgian Pavilion, 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale de Venezia, Venice
Sharon Hayes, Tony Lewis, Adam Pendleton
Andrea Rosen Gallery 2, New York
Adventures of the black square: Abstract Art and Society 1915–2015
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Young, Gifted and Black
Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg
The 2015 Biennial of the Americas: Now? Now!
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
2014
Civil Rights
Void, Derry
Selected Works
Travesia Cuarto, Guadalajara
We Love Video This Summer
Pace, Beijng
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Love Story – The Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection
Winter Palace and 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna
The Disappearance of the Fireflies
Collection Lambert, Avignon
Joan Jonas & Adam Pendleton
Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon
2013
The 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts: Interruption
International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana
Warhol Ones
Half Gallery, New York
After Hours 2: Murals on the Bowery
Art Production Fund, in partnership with The New Museum, Bowery
2012
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston;
Grey Art Gallery at New York University, New York (2013);
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2013);
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2014)
Books: Adam Pendleton, Matt Keegan and Ricardo Valentim
Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon
Alphabets/Heaps of Language
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today
Museum of Contemporary art, Chicago
La Triennale: Intense Proximity
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Heart to Hand
Swiss Institute/Contemporary Art, New York
2011
A Promise Is A Cloud
MetroTech Center, New York
Never Odd or Even
Grimmuseum, Berlin
Fifth Contour Biennial, Mechelen
Soft Machines
The Pace Gallery, New York
2010
Quadruple-Consciousness
Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia
It Is Written
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
Greater New York 2010
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Collected: Reflections on the Permanent Collection
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Self as Disappearance
Centre d’Art Contemporain, La Synagogue de Delme, Delme
Desire
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin
From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Afro-Modernism: Journeys through the Black Atlantic
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Blood of a Poet
Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York
2009
The One Hundred and Sixty-Third Floor
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
After 1968: Contemporary Artists and The Civil Rights Legacy
California African American Museum, Los Angeles
Performa 09: The Prompt
White Slab Palace, New York
Cargo/Cargo Manifest/Cargo Vision
Autocenter, Berlin
Infinitesimal Eternity
Yale University School of Art, New Haven
Black Hole
Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Encodings: Artists in Residence, 2008–2009
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Talk Show
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
The Generational: Younger Than Jesus
New Museum, New York
2008
Matter of Fact: Aftermath
Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo
U-TURN: Perform History II, U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art
Aarhus Art Building, Aarhus
Manifesto Marathon
Serpentine Gallery, London
Macrocosm
Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles
Manifesta 7: Matter of Fact
Manifattura Tabacchi, Rovereto (catalogue)
Freeway Balconies
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
The Future as Disruption
The Kitchen, New York
After 1968: Contemporary Artists and the Civil Rights Legacy
High Museum of Art, Atlanta (catalogue)
Object: The Undeniable Success of Operations
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Hey Hey Glossolalia: The Eroticism of Pedagogy
Creative Time, Judson Memorial Church, New York (catalogue)
2007
Performa 07: The Second Biennial of New Visual Art Performance
Stephen Weiss Studio, New York
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago;
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (2008);
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2008) (catalogue)
Resistance Is…
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Commemorating Thirty Years, Part III, 1991–2007
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
2006
Intersteller Low Ways
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
R³: Reading ‘Ritin ‘Rithmetic, 30 Years Later
Castle Gallery, Inverness
Sea Change
Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles
Please Love Me
Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee
Figures de l’acteur: Le paradoxe du comédien
Collection Lambert, Avignon
Message Personnel
Yvon Lambert, Paris
2005
Frequency
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (catalogue)
25 Bold Moves
House of Campari, New York
Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalogue)
2004
When Contemporary Art Speaks
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indiana
Seven More (Things We Like)
Conner Contemporary Art, Washington D.C.
Black Milk: Theories on Suicide
Marvelli Gallery, New York
Optimo: Manifestations of Optimism in Contemporary Art
Ballroom Marfa, Texas
It’s About Memory
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago