Carmen Winant

American writer and visual artist

Carmen Winant (born 1983)[1] is a writer and visual artist who explores representations of women through collage, mixed media and installation.[2]

Early life and education

Winant was born in 1983 in San Francisco, California. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts, where she studied with the photographer Larry Sultan.[3] In 2010, she was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.[4]

Career

Winant's large-scale collages present a mosaic of clippings of women's figures and bodies. In the photographic installation My Birth she collected and displayed over 2,000 images of women giving birth. In a book by the same name, Winant includes photos of her mother's childbirths. Similarly, her work Looking Forward to Being Attacked is composed of found images of women in self defense classes.[3]

She also makes collages that combine text and image, such as What Would You Do if You Weren’t Afraid? (Women in the News Before November 8, 2016).[2]

She previously taught at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio.[5] In August of 2018, she joined The Ohio State University Department of Art faculty as the first Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art.[6][7]

Solo exhibitions

  • 2016: Pictures of Women Working, Skibum MacArthur, Los Angeles, California.[8][9]
  • 2016: Who Says Pain is Erotic?, Fortnight Institute, New York City.[10][11]
  • 2020: Togethering, Fortnight Institute, New York City.[12]

Group exhibitions

  • 2022: Breaking Water, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.[13]
  • 2024: Whitney Biennial, 2024: Even Better Than The Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.[14]

Publications

  • Carmen Winant: My Birth, Ithaca, NY: SPBH Editions, 2018.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Carmen Winant". Columbus College of Art & Design. 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  2. ^ a b "Carmen Winant: VOLTA NY". ny.voltashow.com. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  3. ^ a b Gefter, Philip (2018-03-27). "An Artist's Vast Collection of Images of Women (And Her Own Mother) Giving Birth". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  4. ^ "Carmen Winant".
  5. ^ Regensdorf, Laura (2018-03-19). "Artist Carmen Winant on Why 2,000 Images of Childbirth Belong at MoMA". Vogue. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  6. ^ "Carmen Winant Named First Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art". Department of Art. 2018-07-09. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  7. ^ "Carmen Winant: UCLA Dept of Art Lecture - Hammer Museum". The Hammer Museum. Retrieved 2019-03-28.
  8. ^ "Carmen Winant".
  9. ^ Piejko, Jennifer. "Carmen Winant at Skibum MacArthur". artforum.com. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  10. ^ "Exhibitions".
  11. ^ "Carmen Winant "Who Says Pain is Erotic?" exhibition at Fortnight Institute, New York - purple ART". Purple. 2016-05-03. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
  12. ^ "Togethering by Carmen Winant at Fortnight Institute - Artland". www.artland.com. Retrieved 2024-05-31.
  13. ^ "Breaking Water | May 06, 2022 | Contemporary Arts Center". www.contemporaryartscenter.org. Retrieved 2024-05-31.
  14. ^ "Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing". whitney.org. Retrieved 2024-05-31.
  15. ^ Winant, Carmen (2018). Carmen Winant: My Birth. Image Text Ithaca. ISBN 9781999814441. OCLC 1060600531.

External links

  • Official website
  • Interview with Carmen Winant MoMA Audio: Being: New Photography 2018
  • Nina Strand: Lesbian Lands: Carmen Winant and the Ovulars, Camera Austria International 149 | 2020
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