Adam Pendleton – Mask

Adam Pendleton’s Mask (Collector’s Edition) from 2020 pairs a bold screenprint on heavyweight paper with a 160-page hardcover artist book exploring themes of identity, abstraction, and language. Limited to 50 hand signed and numbered sets, this edition offers a compelling insight into Pendleton’s conceptual practice through both image and text.

Adam Pendleton is a New York–based conceptual artist whose work is defined by a rigorous black-and-white visual language and a multidisciplinary approach spanning painting, printmaking, text, collage, film, and installation. Drawing on influences from Dada, Conceptualism, Minimalism, and the Black Arts Movement, Pendleton reconfigures historical materials into graphic, text-driven artworks that challenge how history is written, remembered, and experienced.

Central to his practice is the concept of Black Dada, articulated in his 2008 manifesto, which functions as a fluid framework for examining the intersections of Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. Across his signed limited edition prints and artworks, Pendleton uses repetition, fragmentation, and appropriation to "imagine alternate presents," positioning history as an active, evolving construct rather than a fixed narrative. His contemporary art prints and works on paper have been exhibited internationally at institutions including MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Tate Liverpool, underscoring his influential role in contemporary art.