Amber Frid-Jimenez

Amber Frid-Jimenez is an artist whose work examines the aesthetics and circulation of images and text through the misuse of technology. Her work takes the form of installation, video, painting, printmaking, code, and artist's books. Across this range, she uses contemporary technologies such as machine learning to revisit moments from art and cultural histories, exploring how processes of algorithmic and material translation transform meaning. She has exhibited in Canada at the Vancouver Art Gallery, where her work is in the permanent collection, the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery; the Cabinet at Simon Fraser University; Griffin Art Projects; and Mónica Reyes Gallery. She has shown her work internationally at the Queens Museum, New York; Casco Projects, Utrecht; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; A Foundation, Liverpool; Medialab Prado, Madrid; Ars Electronica, Linz; and Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht. Frid-Jimenez is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she directs the Studio for Extensive Aesthetics and was a Canada Research Chair in Art and Design Technology from 2014 to 2024. She has taught at the 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 Art and Philosophy from Wesleyan University.