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ADAM PENDLETON:
WHO IS QUEEN?
The Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art presents Adam Pendleton:
Who Is Queen?, a large-scale installation on view in
The Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium from
September 18, 2021, through January 30, 2022. Adam
Pendleton’s (American, born 1984) paintings, drawings,
and other works use linguistic, political, and historical
Anna Martine Whitehead, preparatory study for Amanda Williams’ Embodied material in unlikely forms and configurations to explore
Sensations, 2021
the relationship between Blackness, abstraction, and the
avant-garde.
AMANDA WILLIAMS: Who Is Queen? questions the traditional notion of the
EMBODIED SENSATIONS museum as a repository, and addresses the influence
that mass movements, including those of the last decade,
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such as Black Lives Matter and Occupy, could have on
the exhibition as a form. Drawing on the work of figures
as disparate as pianist Glenn Gould, political philosopher
The Museum of Modern Art announces Amanda Williams:
Michael Hardt, and activist and public theologian Ruby
Embodied Sensations, a participatory artwork that considers
Sales, this monumental installation sits at the nexus of
the transformation of public space during the global pandemic
abstraction and politics.
- and the stark inequities and systemic injustices that underlie
such shifts. On view in The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron
Atrium from April 10 through June 20, 2021, the installation
will be activated through both an online survey and a series
of participatory, in-person performances. The work expands
on Chicago-based artist and architect Amanda Williams’s
decades-long interrogation of the complex intersections of
race, place, violence, and value. Amanda Williams: Embodied
Sensations is a collaborative project organized by both
Education and Curatorial departments. It draws on Williams’s
work as a 2019–20 Catalyst artist with the Museum’s
Department of Education.

Installation view of Amanda Williams: Embodied Sensations. 2021. The Adam Pendleton. Untitled (HEY MAMA HEY), 2021. Silkscreen ink on Mylar.
Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Julieta Cervantes © 2021 MoMA Sheet: 38 x 29”. Framed: 40 3/8 x 31 3/8”. Image courtesy of the artist.

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