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
Website http://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]

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Biography

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

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

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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Government of Canada. "Winsom". Artists in Canada. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  2. 1 2 "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. 1 2 McQuaid, Cate (2000-04-08). "Potent pairing of Jamaican-born artists". The Boston Globe. p. 71. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
  5. 1 2 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. 1 2 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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