All 35 Works from Adam Pendleton’s “Who Is Queen?” Exhibition Are Now in MoMA’s Collection

All 35 works from Adam Pendleton’s Who Is Queen? exhibition that was staged at The Museum of Modern Art in 2021-2022 have been acquired by MoMA. This acquisition includes paintings and drawings from Pendleton’s Black Dada and WE ARE NOT bodies of work, as well as three videos, including Notes on Resurrection City, Notes on the Robert E. Lee Monument, Richmond VA (figure), and So We Moved: A Portrait of Jack Halberstam.

Who Is Queen?, an immersive floor-to-ceiling installation that spanned five stories in MoMA’s Marron Atrium, combined paintings, drawings, and filmic works into a spatial collage that fashioned a total work of art for the 21st century. Writing for The New York Times, Siddhartha Mitter described the exhibition as one that “built [its] own museum inside MoMA—an experiment in change from within, offering a radically different method of display from the chronological unfolding of the Modernist canon in the institution's galleries.” 

Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? was organized by Stuart Comer, The Lonti Ebers Chief Curator of Media and Performance, with Danielle A. Jackson, former Curatorial Assistant, and Gee Wesley, Curatorial Assistant, and with the support of Veronika Molnar, Intern, Department of Media and Performance, MoMA.

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