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

E: [email protected]

Instagram: @ambercashmere

 

 

COMMERCIAL

Represented by Lalaland Artists Worldwide

UK: [email protected]

US: [email protected]

 

GALLERY

Alice Black Gallery

Alice Black

[email protected]

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

Its Nice That: Kessels Kramer’s campaign for citizenM captures portraits of people sleeping – “dribble and all”

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

Vogue Italia: Fashion's New Breed- The Photographers Decoding The Powerful Narrative of Multiculturalism

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

Dazed 100 (2020)

i-D: Amber Pinkerton's year in photos

i-D: 20 rising photographers to follow on Instagram in 2020

i-D A-Z of UK now

Teenage Observer, Artist Profile: Amber Pinkerton (2015)

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2023- Self Dialogues: Hard Food, ALICE BLACK, London 

Press: DazedELLEAnother MagazineArt NewsBritish 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.

 

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