Melissa Ann Pinney: "What’s Ms. Pinney Doing Here?"

ICP’s Incubator is located on ICP’s ground floor. The space is free and open to the public during café and museum hours. Since 2018, photographer Melissa Ann Pinney has documented Chicago Public School students as part of an artist residency. As the students began to invite her into their world, the project became a document of identity, community and urgent social issues. Pinney’s thoughtful portraits of young people navigating the transformations of adolescence contain all of the triumph, grief, humor, and tenderness of growing up. About The ArtistMelissa Ann Pinney’s work first garnered attention in the Museum of Modern Art’s major 1991 exhibition, Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort.