Winsom

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Winsom
Born1946
Jamaica
EducationJamaica School of Art
Known forvisual arts
AwardsHonorary doctorate from Ontario College of Art and Design University
Websitehttp://winsomwinsom.com/

Winsom (born 1946)[1] is a Canadian-Jamaican Maroon multi-media artist working in textiles, painting, video, installations, and puppetry.[2] Her work explores human spirituality.[3][4]

Biography[edit]

Winsom was born in 1946 in Jamaica,[1] where she studied at the Jamaica School of Art.[4] She immigrated to Canada in 1969.[1] From 1974 to 1989, she lived in the city of Kingston, Ontario and she co-founded the Kingston's Black Women's Collective.[2]

Exhibitions[edit]

Winsom has been exhibiting her work since the mid-1980s at galleries around the world.[5] Her work was featured in the group exhibition, "Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter" (1989), organized by the Diasporic Africa Women's Art Collective (DAWA), which toured in Canada.[6] She has held solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands.[5] In 2003, Winsom had four exhibitions running concurrently in Toronto galleries.[7]

Winsom's work was featured in the 2017 group exhibition Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971-1989 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, curated by Wanda Nanibush.

In 2018 to 2019, the Art Gallery of Ontario presented a solo show of her work, curated by Andrea Fatona, entitled “I Rise”.[8] It was in this context that Winsom partook in a performative dinner with the Black Wimmin Artists (BWA) collective called The Feast in 2019.[9][10] Her installation titled "The Masks We Wear" was exhibited at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in 2022.

Awards and honors[edit]

NOW Magazine described Winsom as "the defining artist of Black History Month in Toronto".[7]

In 2015, she was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from OCAD University.[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Government of Canada. "Winsom". Artists in Canada. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  2. ^ a b "Winsom Winsom: The Masks We Wear". Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Retrieved 2022-11-13.
  3. ^ Winsom (1994). "My voice, my art". Canadian Women Studies. 14 (2): 39.
  4. ^ a b McQuaid, Cate (2000-04-08). "Potent pairing of Jamaican-born artists". The Boston Globe. p. 71. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  5. ^ a b Canadian Who's Who. Grey House Publishing.
  6. ^ Jim, Alice Ming Wai (1996). "An Analysis and Documentation of the 1989 Exhibition "Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter"". RACAR: Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review. 23 (1/2): 71–83. ISSN 0315-9906.
  7. ^ a b Hirschmann, Thomas. "Multi-Winsom Local installation artist's four shows prove that sincerity can trump irony". NOW Magazine. NOW Central Communications Inc. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  8. ^ Fatona, Andrea. "Winsom: I Rise". AGO. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  9. ^ Siddiqui, Yasmeen (2019-04-05). "Black Women Artists Stage a Performative Dinner at the Art Gallery of Ontario". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  10. ^ Parris, Amanda (2019-02-08). "In the heart of the AGO, 100 Black women artists gathered to celebrate. Is it a sign of true change?". CBC News. Retrieved 2023-03-18.
  11. ^ Armstrong, Neil. "Ontario College Of Art And Design University Honours Celebrated Arts Mentors". Pride. Pride News. Retrieved 1 September 2020.

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