Amber Pinkerton (b. 1997, Jamaica) is a New York–based artist whose interdisciplinary practice traverses photography, moving image, sound, text, and installation. She received a First Class Hons BA in Photography from University of Westminster (2019–2023). Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and has been exhibited internationally across the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Germany, and the United States. Recent institutional exhibitions include Female View: Female Fashion Photographers from Modernity to the Digital Age at Kunsthalle St. Annen and Museum Schloss Moyland, as well as Black Venus, presented at Fotografiska New York, Museum of the African Diaspora, and Somerset House. In 2026, Pinkerton's work will be featured in Sunday Best at the Art Gallery of Ontario before touring to the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Pinkerton’s practice is grounded in critical investigations of identity politics, with particular attention to Jamaica and its diasporic histories and imaginaries. Situated at the intersection of feminist autotheory and postcolonial discourse, her work interrogates constructions of personhood, cultural memory, and collective agency through an ongoing process of socio-political critique. Engaging photography as both image and object, Pinkerton foregrounds questions of tactility, materiality, and embodiment, while extending her inquiry through autobiographical self-portraiture, virtual reality, sound, and writing. Her ongoing multipart series Self Dialogues employs immersive photographic and moving-image strategies to articulate meditations on migrational solitude, intimacy and desire, familial tension, coloniality, and the persistence of cultural memory.

Pinkerton was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 (2022), The New York Times Style Magazine’s 15 Creative Women for Our Time (2020), and the British Fashion Council New Wave: Creatives List (2020). She is also the founder of JA Editorial Archive (2023), an open-access archive dedicated to the preservation and circulation of fashion print material produced in Jamaica, conceived as a contribution to the ongoing development and historiography of Jamaican photography.

 

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