2016
BFA in Photography, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

2015-Present
Freelance Photographer & Assistant
Cleveland, OH

2024
Adjunct Faculty in the Photography & Video Department Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland OH

2018-20
Technical Specialist/Lab Manager in the Photography & Video Department Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland OH

2016-17
Community Education Liaison for Arts Mastery Program & Instructor
Cleveland Print Room , Cleveland OH

2016
Framer
M. Gentile Studios, Cleveland OH

2024
The Roads Most Traveled, Century Design Workshop, Cincinnati, OH

2023
UNTITLED: I Really Just Made This Work So I Could Heal, Akhso Gallery, Cleveland, OH

100% Kanekalon
George Fox University, Newberg, OR

Somewhere, Someone, Something,
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH

2022
Missing History of Massillon: Unheard African American Stories,Massillon Museum, Massillon, OH

2021
Evidence of Existence,
Hedge Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2020
Pulling Our Weight in Gold,
Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH

2019
(Dis)Mantle, curated by Joseph Underwood
Kent State University, Kent, OH

Naps, Coils & Curls
Shaker Historical Society, Shaker Heights, OH

2018
Strangers in the Sun,
Cleveland West Art League, Cleveland, OH

2017
By Force & By Choice,
The Temple of Tifereth-Israel, Beachwood, OH

By Force & By Choice,
Zaina Gallery at W. 78th St. Studios, Cleveland, OH

2024
(Forthcoming) TBD, curated by Marcella Hackbardt, Wright State University, Dayton, OH

A Look Amongst the Stars, Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, OH

In Touch, curated by Megan Young, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH & Medici Museum of Art, Warren, OH

2023
Complex Structures: Neighbors' Indelible Journeys Home, The Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, OH

2022
Phot(OH):Photographers in the Heartland
Miami University Art Museum, Miami, OH

Women Who Print
Future Ink Graphics, Cleveland, OH

2021
Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair
Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH

Imagine Otherwise
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

2020
Wedding of the Waters,
Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY

Past Due
Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

2019
Mirror, Mirror
Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH

seenUnseen, Artist Archive of the Western Reserve and The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH

I Sing the Body
Transformer Station, Cleveland, OH

Art, Activism & Advocacy, Julia & Larry Pollock Gallery at Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH

2018
Wonder: Alternative Processes & Photo Based Prints,
The Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH

ARTBELT: New Art from the Rustbelt,
Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, OH

A Color Removed,
SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH

CAN Triennial,
78th Street Studios, Cleveland, OH

Processing the Present,
Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH

The New Masters: Women Artist of Northeast Ohio,
Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, OH

Beau·ty,
PopEye Gallery, Cleveland, OH

YARDS Project
Worthington Yards, Cleveland, OH

ImageOHIO 2019,
ROYGBIV, Columbus, OH

2017
Off The Wall Members Showcase,
Cleveland Print Room, Cleveland, OH

PhotoNow
Gallery East at Tri-C, Cleveland, OH

Nobody Likes You When You’re 23
Pop Up, Cleveland, OH

Heights Arts Emergent 2017
Heights Art, Cleveland, OH

2016
Off The Wall Members Showcase
Cleveland Print Room, Cleveland, OH

Creative Fusion Group Exhibition
Cleveland Collection Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Without Commercial Interruption
Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH

The Peer Show
Cleveland Print Room, Cleveland, OH

Landscape: Nature and Social Interaction
John F. Seiberling Gallery, Peninsula, OH

2015
Happening Then, Happening Now,Micro Artspace at W. 78th St. Studios, Cleveland, OH

2014
67th Student Independent Exhibition,
Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland, OH

2024
Creative Impact Fund, Assembly for the Arts

Emerging Artist Prize, Cleveland Arts Prize

2022
Satellite Fund, SPACES Gallery

2017
Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award

2016
“Best in Show”, The Peer Show,
Cleveland Print Room

President’s Traveling Scholarship: Mary C. Page Memorial Scholarship, Cleveland Institute of Art

2024
Digital Weaving Lab Residency,
Praxis Fiber Workshop, Cleveland, OH

2023
Visiting Artist Lecture,
Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

Workshop, Creative Aging Institute
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

2022
Residency
moCa Cleveland, Cleveland, OH

2020
Visiting Artist Lecture
Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH

2019
Visiting Artist Lecture
Kent State University, Kent, OH

Residency
Gordon Square Arts District, Cleveland, OH

Artist on Art Talk: Abe Franjndlich,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

2022
Cleveland artist Amber N. Ford on photography, grief and moCa residency, Ideastream Public Media

2021
Lift Every Voice: A Celebration of Black LivesCleveland photograph Amber Ford yearns to photograph people in their light: Black History Month, Cleveland.com

2020
It Wasn’t A Gun, The Atlantic

We Can’t Go Back to Normal
Washington Post

2019
Amber Wants to Conversate*,
CAN Journal

2018
MAKERS: Amber Ford,
CAN Journal

Who’s Next | Amber Ford,
Canvas magazine

Visual Artist Showcase Vol 18.,
Around Kent magazine

Kenyon College

George Fox University

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Worthington Yards

Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Collection,
Transformer Station

Private Collections