uses formal ideas related to drawing, painting, and photography in order to investigate what is coded in the image as well as what is evoked in the technical treatment that allows speculation about the subject beyond the image. Her work engages possibilities of female pleasure alongside political issues related to feminism, gender, and sexuality.
She received her MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design and BFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She is represented by Gavlak Gallery in West Palm Beach, FL. She has exhibited extensively throughout the United States in solo and group exhibitions, including The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA; the Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, Ill;
Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA; University Art Museum, University of California,
Berkeley, CA; Krannert Art Museum, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL; and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA. Ms. Bamber’s work is included in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. She is the recipient of numerous grants, fellowships, and artist residencies, including the Richard Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship, California Community Foundation Grant, City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship, and Art Matter Inc. Grant. Her work has most recently been published in Effects Journal, Volume 3, Mimicries, Jan Tumlir, and Jeffrey Stuker editors; Vitamin D2: New
Perspectives in Drawing, 2013; Art and Queer Culture, by Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer; and The Queer Art of Failure, by Jack Halberstam.
Until 2024, Ms. Bamber was an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Graduate Fine Art Department at Otis College of Art. She had been at Otis since 2001. She has taught at numerous institutions, including, Cooper Union and Bard College in New York, NY; Art Center College of Design, UCLA, UC Irvine in California; Harvard University, and The School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, MA.
