diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/components/FacePile/FacePile.test.tsx b/superset-frontend/src/components/FacePile/FacePile.test.tsx
index 0e7b4516493fa..ce8acdc1af3b9 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/src/components/FacePile/FacePile.test.tsx
+++ b/superset-frontend/src/components/FacePile/FacePile.test.tsx
@@ -16,9 +16,10 @@
  * specific language governing permissions and limitations
  * under the License.
  */
+import { Provider } from 'react-redux';
 import { styledMount as mount } from 'spec/helpers/theming';
-
 import { Avatar } from 'src/components';
+import { store } from 'src/views/store';
 import FacePile from '.';
 import { getRandomColor } from './utils';
 
@@ -29,7 +30,11 @@ const users = [...new Array(10)].map((_, i) => ({
 }));
 
 describe('FacePile', () => {
-  const wrapper = mount(<FacePile users={users} />);
+  const wrapper = mount(
+    <Provider store={store}>
+      <FacePile users={users} />
+    </Provider>,
+  );
 
   it('is a valid element', () => {
     expect(wrapper.find(FacePile)).toExist();
diff --git a/superset-frontend/src/components/FacePile/index.tsx b/superset-frontend/src/components/FacePile/index.tsx
index 526babbc3ef38..51e44d248e6cb 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/src/components/FacePile/index.tsx
+++ b/superset-frontend/src/components/FacePile/index.tsx
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
  * specific language governing permissions and limitations
  * under the License.
  */
+import { useSelector } from 'react-redux';
 import {
   getCategoricalSchemeRegistry,
   styled,
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ import {
 } from '@superset-ui/core';
 import { Tooltip } from 'src/components/Tooltip';
 import { Avatar } from 'src/components';
+import { RootState } from 'src/views/store';
 import { getRandomColor } from './utils';
 
 interface FacePileProps {
@@ -53,13 +55,18 @@ const StyledGroup = styled(Avatar.Group)`
 `;
 
 export default function FacePile({ users, maxCount = 4 }: FacePileProps) {
+  const enableAvatars = useSelector<RootState, boolean>(
+    state => state.common?.conf?.SLACK_ENABLE_AVATARS,
+  );
   return (
     <StyledGroup maxCount={maxCount}>
       {users.map(({ first_name, last_name, id }) => {
         const name = `${first_name} ${last_name}`;
         const uniqueKey = `${id}-${first_name}-${last_name}`;
         const color = getRandomColor(uniqueKey, colorList);
-        const avatarUrl = `/api/v1/user/${id}/avatar.png`;
+        const avatarUrl = enableAvatars
+          ? `/api/v1/user/${id}/avatar.png`
+          : undefined;
         return (
           <Tooltip key={name} title={name} placement="top">
             <StyledAvatar
diff --git a/superset/views/base.py b/superset/views/base.py
index f47eb32d18589..c316b25f3b123 100644
--- a/superset/views/base.py
+++ b/superset/views/base.py
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@
     "NATIVE_FILTER_DEFAULT_ROW_LIMIT",
     "PREVENT_UNSAFE_DEFAULT_URLS_ON_DATASET",
     "JWT_ACCESS_CSRF_COOKIE_NAME",
+    "SLACK_ENABLE_AVATARS",
 )
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)