Pinkney Herbert was born in Charlotte, NC in 1954. He received his BA from Rhodes College and his MFA from the University of Memphis. Mr. Herbert is the recipient of Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and USIA-Arts America. He has participated in numerous art exhibitions throughout the US, Europe, Japan, and Southeast Asia. His art is in the permanent collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, Memphis Brooks Museum, the Arkansas Arts Center, and the Allentown Art Museum. He is represented by David Lusk Gallery, Memphis/Nashville, TN; Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA; and Greg Thompson Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR. He is a fellow and board member of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Amherst, VA, and VCCA-France, Auvillar, France. He is the founder and director of Marshall Arts, an alternative gallery established in 1992 in Memphis, TN. He maintains studios in Memphis and New York. For 2013 - 2014, he was awarded a year-long studio as part of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation’s Space Program, Brooklyn, NY. In 2018, he became a member of AAA, American Abstract Artists. In December 2018, Herbert was a fellow at MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH.
In the Fall of 2012, Mr. Herbert taught painting and drawing at the University of Georgia Study Abroad Program in Cortona, Italy. He has taught at the University of Tennessee, the Helsinki Academy of Fine Arts, Penland School of Crafts, Arrowmont School, the University of Memphis, and the Memphis College of Art. He has been a visiting artist at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, Hanoi University of Fine Arts, and the Oberfalzer Kuntzlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany.