Amber’s solo and group exhibitions include Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the MassArt Art Museum, Smith College, Lesley University, Amherst College, APE Gallery, WORKS in San Jose, the Harvey Milk Institute in California, ArtSpace, the CyberArts Festival, the Essex Arts Center, the Boston Public Library, ArtSTRAND, the Danforth Museum, the Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts, Circa Gallery in Montreal, and the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University. She is also a recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Faculty Fellowship Grant.
Amber earned her MFA and her BFA University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in Photography and Art History.
As a visiting artist, Amber has presented at numerous institutions, including the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Hampshire College, Tufts University, and Harvard University. She has also led interdisciplinary panels focused on the LGBTQ Family Movement at the Kahn Institute, Smith College, Emerson College, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Family Equality Council at Disney World, Florida. Amber has been involved with several activist and legal coalitions serving queer communities, including GLAD (Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders), the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), FamilyPride, and COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere). Her photography has been featured in numerous fundraiser exhibitions, targeting various LGBTQ+ publications, as well as in major media outlets like Newsweek, CNN, Fox News, and academic journals. Amber’s photographic archive presents a case study on the economic mobility and continuous redefinition of political class territories.
Amber’s most recent projects examine the history of paper currency and the use of precious metals, investigating how these elements helped develop photographic printing processes and how photography functions within a capitalistic system, described by Edmund Burke as the Fourth Estate. Her larger body of work and research explores the possibilities for contemporary American families to construct gender, sexual, racial, and class identities within the normative nuclear family culture and institution, and revisiting the contested traditions of photographic practices for both public and private archives.