ABOUT
Amber Pinkerton is a London-based photographic, moving image and conceptual artist born and raised in Kingston, 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 +
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)
EXHIBITIONS
2022
Black Venus, Fotografiska Museum, Aindrea Emelife, NYC
-Black Venus, Museum of African Diaspora (MOAD) in San Francisco, California. MARCH - AUGUST 2023
-Black Venus, Somerset House, London. 19 JULY - 24 SEPTEMBER 2023
Sadie Barnette, Widline Cadet, Shawanda Corbett, Renee Cox, Ayana V Jackson, Deana Lawson, Zanele Muholi, Jenn Nkiru, Deux Femmes Noires, Amber Pinkerton, Tabita Rezaire, Coreen Simpson, Ming Smith, The Estate of Maud Sulter, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Alberta Whittle, Carla Williams
SEVEN, Alice Black Gallery, London
Rachael Bailey, Ivan Black, Dante Elsner, Matthew Harris, Tristan Pigott, Amber Pinkerton, Atalanta Xanthe
Female View: Female Fashion Photographers from Modernity to the Digital Age
-Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck, Germany
-Museum Schloss Moyland 2023
Lillian Bassman, Sibylle Bergemann, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Corinne Day, Madame d’Ora, Ingeborg Hoppe, Nadine Ijewere, Ute Mahler, Charlotte March, Sarah Moon, Amber Pinkerton, Elizaveta Porodina, Regina Relang, Bettina Rheims, Alice Springs (June Newton), Deborah Turbeville, Ellen von Unwerth, Yva.
-Westminster Photography Degree Show, Self-curated, Truman Brewery, London
-Bow Arts Open Studios, Bow Arts Trust, London
2021
Bold Black British, Aindrea Emelife, Christies, London
Amber Pinkerton, Abe Odedina, Emily Moore, Ibrahim El-Salahi, John Akomfrah, Kimanthi Donkor, Marlene Smith, Phoebe Boswell, Shannon Bono, Sonia Boyce, Zac Ove, FKA Twigs, Jade Montserrat, Julianknxx, Lakwena, Ndidi Emefiele, Paul Dash, Sahara Longe, Simeon Barclay, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Anya Paintsil, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Hew Locke, James Barnor, Kesewa Aboah, LR Vandy, Olivia Sterling, Samson Kambalu, Sola Olulode
Photo London , Alice Black Gallery, London
The New Black Vanguard, Aperture, Antwaun Sargent
Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France: July 4 -September 26, 2021
Musee de beaux-arts, Le Locle, Switzerland: February 11 – May 1, 2022
Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden: May 20 – October 2, 2022
Saatchi Gallery, London: October 28, 2022 – January 22, 2023
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
17 April
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
SHOWSTUDIO: Jean Paul Gaultier by Simone Rocha SS24 Haute Couture
2023
ICA London 75th Anniversary (x Awita Moonshots) Panel Talk: Amber Pinkerton & Alice Black
Other Panelists: Prue O’Day X Bengi Ünsal, Katharine Kostyal X Svetlana Marich, Maureen Paley X Antonia Marsh, Jenny Waldman X Tessa Ross, Sibylle Rochat X Nancy Hatcher
Sondr Art Talks: Amber Pinkerton, Hard Food
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
1Club Virtual Shows: Women in Art & Photography, Graceland & Amber Pinkerton with Mark Farrant
Black Venus: Renee Cox, Ayana Jackson & Amber Pinkerton with Aindrea Emelife at Fotografiska NYC
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
BA Photography (1st Hons), University of Westminster 2019-2023
Cert HE (Practical Filmmaking), Met Film School 2016-2017
RECOGNITION & NOMINATIONS
-Forbes 30 Under 30, Europe, 2022
Arts & Culture
https://www.forbes.com/profile/amber-pinkerton/?list=30under30-europe-art-culture&sh=5d399d835130
-Travers Smith Art Programme, Selection 2022
-Photo London x Nikon Emerging Photographer Award Shortlist, 2021
-The Agents Club Awards 2021:
- Fashion Editorial- Women
- Celebrity Campaign- Women
-2020 British Fashion Council's New Wave: Creatives List
CV available on request.