Baker Artist Portfolios

Ada Pinkston is a multimedia artist and cultural organizer living and working in Baltimore, Maryland where she is a lecturer in Art education at Towson University. Born in New York, her art explores the intersection of imagined histories and sociopolitical realities on our bodies using performance, digital media and sculptural forms. Over the years, her work has been featured at a variety of spaces including The Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Walters Art Museum, The Peale Museum, Transmodern Performance Festival, P.S.1, The New Museum, Light City Baltimore and the streets of Berlin. She is a Baker Artist award semifinalist (2016), a recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Grit Fund Grant in Visual Arts, administered by The Contemporary (2017); a Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Ruby’s Project Grant in Visual Arts in (2017), and a fellow at Halcyon Arts Lab (2018-2019). Her most recent collaborative project includes founding the LabBodies Performance Art Laboratory in Baltimore, Maryland.