Pinky Bass


Pinky M. M. Bass is an American photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.
Bass, a resident of Fairhope, Alabama, has exhibited at a number of museums including the Asheville Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Huntsville Museum of Art in Huntsville, Alabama, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Montgomery, Alabama, Mobile Museum of Art in Mobile, Alabama, National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina among others.
Well known for her work in pinhole photography, Bass has work in the collection of the Polaroid Corporation. Bass has taught numerous workshops in pinhole camera across the United States including EMRYS Foundation, Penland School of Crafts and University of Memphis and Space One Eleven. Known for her portable pop-up pinhole cameras, The first of these cameras was a giant pinhole she made out of a pop-up camper -- "Pinky's Portable Pop-up Pinhole Camera and Darkroom". She made this piece for the "Itinerant Photography Project" in 1989.
In March 1997, Bass was honored by the Georgia Commission on Women for "Georgia Women in the Visual Arts".

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Bass has had over 40 solo exhibitions, many of which traveled.