Ada Pinkston

Ada Pinkston is a multimedia artist, educator, and organizer living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. Born in New York, her artistic research interest spans the social sciences, global colonial histories, American Studies, and community art practices. Her work has been featured at a variety of spaces, including the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, Washington, DC; the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, the Peale Museum, and Transmodern Performance Festival Baltimore; MoMA PS1, and the New Museum, New York; and the streets of Berlin, Baltimore, Orlando, Washington, DC, and New York. She has lectured on public space at the French Embassy; New York University; University of California, Los Angeles; and the National Gallery of Art. She is also an alumnus of the Monument Lab Fellows Program. Her most recent work can be found in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.