Ada Pinkston American

Ada Pinkston was born in New York and currently lives and works in Baltimore, MD as a multimedia artist and educator. Pinkston earned her BA from Wesleyan University and her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has taught in educational settings spanning Kindergarten through college. Her performance pieces have been featured at prominent institutions including the Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Peale Museum, and the Walters Art Museum. Along with her expansive teaching experience, Pinkston has given lectures at The French Embassy, NYU, UCLA, USC, Columbia University, and the National Gallery of Art. She was the House of Sedulō (Baltimore , MD) Artist-in-Resident in 2019 and was awarded the Black Space Artist Residency (San Francisco, CA) in 2022. Pinkston's art speaks to her work as a community and cultural organizer; she combines myriad artistic media with her research interests in social sciences, global colonial histories, and American Studies to create wholly unique visual artworks.