Amber Frid-Jimenez

Amber Frid-Jimenez is an artist who situates her work at the intersection of art, culture and technology through installations, video, printmaking, code and artist’s books. According to curator Emily Butler, Frid-Jimenez “translates radical moments across art and cultural histories through the lens of contemporary technology, exploring the evolving nature of meaning through algorithmic translation.” Recent exhibitions include Underneath every picture there is always another picture (2024), curated by Denise Oleksijczuk at The Cabinet at Simon Fraser University and Something slips, passes, is transmitted, from stage to stage (2023), a solo exhibition curated by T’ai Smith at Mónica Reyes Gallery in Vancouver. Her work has been included in The Imitation Game (2022) and MashUp (2016) at the Vancouver Art Gallery, which has acquired her work for its permanent collection, and in Mel Chin’s All Over the Place (2018) at the Queens Museum, New York, as well as a large-scale video commission for the Washington, DC Metro. She has exhibited at Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver; Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht; Casco Projects, Utrecht; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; A Foundation, Liverpool; Medialab Prado, Madrid; and Ars Electronica, Linz, among other venues. She has collaborated with curators and artists including Ute Meta Bauer, Emily Butler, Joan Jonas and Lucy Orta. Frid-Jimenez is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University, where she served as Canada Research Chair in art and design technology (2014–24) and directs the Studio for Extensive Aesthetics. She has taught at MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology, Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University and Bergen Academy of Art and Design. She holds an MSc in media arts and sciences from MIT and a BA (Hons) in painting and philosophy from Wesleyan University.