ABOUT
Amber Pinkerton (b.1997) is a London-based photographic, moving image and conceptual artist born and raised in Jamaica. She works across fashion, fine art and commercial projects.
Pinkerton’s practice is rooted in identity politics, with a focus on Jamaica and its diaspora. Exploring the nature of personhood and individual and collective cultural agency, Pinkerton’s work is an ongoing form of active socio-political critique. In her more recent works, Pinkerton begins to explore the 'photograph as object' in its physical realm, with focus on its tactility and materiality, as well as more autobiographical themes through self-portraiture, sound and the written word.
In 2023, Pinkerton exhibited her first solo show, 'Self Dialogues: Hard Food' at Alice Black Gallery. She featured in her first two museum shows in 2022; 'Female View: Female Fashion Photographers from Modernity to the Digital Age' at Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck, Germany & Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany and 'Black Venus' at Fotografiska, New York which toured The Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco and Somerset House, London in 2023. She was featured in The New Black Vanguard (Curated by Antwaun Sargent), Saatchi Gallery, London, UK which previously toured to Musee de beaux-arts, Le Locle, Switzerland, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden and Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France. She has exhibited in shows amongst pioneering artists such as James Barnor, Carrie Mae Weems, Deana Lawson and Sarah Moon. Pinkerton has previously been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 (2022), The New York Times Style Magazine's list of '15 Creative Women for Our Time' (2020) and in the 2020 British Fashion Council's New Wave: Creatives List. She was listed in the Dazed 100 rankings (2020) as well as i-D's ‘Photographers to follow in 2020’. Having founded the online library 'JA Editorial Archive (2023), she aims for wider circulation of fashion print material shot in Jamaica as a contribution to Jamaica's photographic development.
Pinkerton earned a 1st Class BA (Hons) in Photography at the University of Westminster in 2023. She is represented worldwide by Lalaland Artists for her commercial & editorial photographic and film projects; Alice Black is gallery representative, UK.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Dazed, Another, Re-Edition, American Vogue, W Mag, T Magazine, The Cut, FT Weekend, LOVE, Perfect, Document Journal +
SELECTED CLIENTS
Gucci, Miu Miu, Burberry, Moncler, Isamaya Beauty, Adidas, Nike, Alexis Bittar +
SELECTED TALENT
Tems, Koffee, Dua Lipa, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Cynthia Erivo
CONTACT
Instagram: @ambercashmere
COMMERCIAL
Represented by Lalaland Artists Worldwide
GALLERY
Alice Black
Contact for artwork and print inquiries.
PRESS
Dazed: Amber Pinkerton's latest exhibition explores her secret innermost thoughts
ELLE UK: Amber Pinkerton's Solo Exhibition Is A Raw, Moving Insight Into Her Subconscious
Business of Fashion Podcast: Why London is the World's Most Exciting Creative City
Into the Paint Podcast: Amber Pinkerton w/ Anthony Tino
New York Times Style Magazine: The Rising Photographer Inspired by Her Home Country
Models.com: Amber Pinkerton on Using Photography to Convey Socio-Political Nuances
Its Nice That: Amber Pinkerton on photographing Jamaica from a Jamaican gaze
CVM Sunrise: Amber Pinkerton, Photographic & Moving Image Artistry
The Fall Magazine (The Black Album): This is Amber
BOF: BFC Announces Its Annual New Wave Creatives List (2020)
WELT: ICONIST: “The way photographers look at other women is sometimes more cautious”
i-D: Meet the young talents at the front of fashion's new wave
FROM KINGSTON, WITH LOVE: AMBER PINKERTON MERGES HER EXPERIENCES OF LIFE IN ENGLAND AND JAMAICA
Fertilizer World: I Pledge, 48-hr Screening
Initiated Dialogues, Self Service Issue 54, Curated by Katie Grand
Lara Monro: Words with Amber Pinkerton
i-D: Amber Pinkerton's year in photos
i-D: 20 rising photographers to follow on Instagram in 2020
Teenage Observer, Artist Profile: Amber Pinkerton (2015)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023- Self Dialogues: Hard Food, ALICE BLACK, London
Press: Dazed, ELLE, Another Magazine, Art News, British Journal of Photography
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024- Voices of Black Artistry, by Charlotte Leseberg Smith & Daniel Etherton, The Future Room, Christie's, London
2024- We Are Soul, by Seed Archives, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2024- Fuego De Tierra (EARTH FIRE), by Bee Beardsworth, ALICE BLACK, London
2024- Collectivist II, Isaac Andrews, Deptford Market Yard, London
2023-2024-Contested Bodies, Marcelle Josephs & Dr Laura Claveria, University of Leeds
2023- Black Venus, Museum of African Diaspora (MOAD), San Francisco, California
2023- Black Venus, Somerset House, London
2023- Female View: Female Fashion Photographers from Modernity to the Digital Age, Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany
2023-The New Black Vanguard, Aperture, Antwaun Sargent, Saatchi Gallery, London
2022-Black Venus, Fotografiska Museum, Aindrea Emelife, NYC
2022- Female View: Female Fashion Photographers from Modernity to the Digital Age, Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck, Germany
2022- The New Black Vanguard, Aperture, Antwaun Sargent, Musee de beaux-arts, Le Locle, Switzerland
2022- The New Black Vanguard, Aperture, Antwaun Sargent, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
2022- SEVEN, Alice Black Gallery, London
2022- Westminster Photography Degree Show, Truman Brewery, London
2022- Bow Arts Open Studios, Bow Arts Trust, London
2021- Bold Black British, Aindrea Emelife, Christies, London
2021- Photo London , Alice Black Gallery, London
2021- The New Black Vanguard, Aperture, Antwaun Sargent, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2020- Photo Vogue Festival, Milan, Italy
FESTIVALS/ Screenings
2024- Dead Lef: Visions of Contemporary Jamaica, Joseph Douglas Elmhirst, Brooklyn Academy of Music, led by Marlon James
2023- Aesthetica Short Film Festival- Self Dialogues: Hard Food, VR & Immersive Experiences Category (Selection)
TALKS/ PANELS
2024- Niijournal x Dazed Club in Conversation: Campbell Addy x Amber Pinkerton
2024- SHOWSTUDIO: Jean Paul Gaultier by Simone Rocha SS24 Haute Couture
2023- ICA London 75th Anniversary (x Awita Moonshots) Panel Talk: Amber Pinkerton & Alice Black
2023- Sondr Art Talks: Amber Pinkerton, Hard Food
2023- Photo London, Aperture Presents: Artist-led London with Ben Goulder, Gareth McConnell & Amber Pinkerton. Moderated by Lillian Wilkie at Somerset House
2022- The New Black Vanguard, Friday Lates: Mahaneela & Amber Pinkerton at The Saatchi Gallery
2022- 1Club Virtual Shows: Women in Art & Photography, Graceland & Amber Pinkerton with Mark Farrant
2022- Black Venus: Renee Cox, Ayana Jackson & Amber Pinkerton with Aindrea Emelife at Fotografiska NYC
2022- Perfect Magazine Talk: Amber Pinkerton, Edward Buchanan, Rasharn Nyameng & Honey Dijon with Bryan Boy
2020- NOWNESS Live: Dennis Morris & Amber Pinkerton, The Power of Photography As a Tool of Expression
PROGRAMS/WORKSHOPS
2023- Archiving Jamaica in Fashion Imagery Workshop, Bound Art Book Fair, The Whitworth Art Gallery
Jamaica Editorial Archive (Founder)
2022- Abule Presents Atijo: Preserving the era of analogue through physical connections & traditional storytelling, Amber Pinkerton, Alexandra Yellop, Chinasa Chukwu with Christina Nwabugo at Just Another Store London
BOOKS/FAIRS
2023- Jamaica Vibes (by Assouline), Edited by Novia McDonald-Whyte & Lisa Lovatt-Smith, Feature
2022- Female View: Female Fashion Photographers from Modernity to the Digital Age (by HATJE KANZ), Feature
EDUCATION
2019-2023: BA Photography (1st Class Hons), University of Westminster
2016-2017: Cert HE (Practical Filmmaking), Met Film School
RECOGNITION/ AWARDS/ NOMINATIONS
2024- Black British Artist Grant Recipient- 6th Edition and Jar of Love Fund 2024 (supported by Sothebys, ARTNOIR & SR_A)
2022- Forbes 30 Under 30, Europe, Arts & Culture
https://www.forbes.com/profile/amber-pinkerton/?list=30under30-europe-art-culture&sh=5d399d835130
2022-Travers Smith Art Programme Selection
2021-Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award Shortlist
2021-The Agents Club Awards: Fashion Editorial- Women, Celebrity Campaign- Women
2020- British Fashion Council's New Wave: Creatives List
CV available on request.