Andrew Winer

{{Short description|American novelist}}

'''Andrew Winer''' (born June 1966) is an American novelist. Recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and author of the novels ''The Marriage Artist'' (2010) and ''The Color Midnight Made'' (2003), he writes and speaks about literary, philosophical, and artistic matters. Presently he is completing his third novel and a book on the contemporary relevance of Friedrich Nietzsche’s central philosophical idea, the affirmation of life. Andrew Winer is also an artist.<ref name="auto5">{{cite web |url=https://archive.philosophersmag.com/simply-nietzsche-a-review/ |title = Simply Nietzsche: a review |website=The Philosophers' Magazine|author1= Maudemarie Clark|author2=Andrew Winer}}</ref>

== Life and work ==

Winer studied painting at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the California Institute of the Arts.<ref name="encyclopedia.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/winer-andrew-1966|title=Winer, Andrew 1966- &#124; Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref> He had a number of solo and group shows in Los Angeles and New York City, and wrote criticism and reviews for ''Art Issues'' before beginning his literary career.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://whitecolumns.org/?s=Andrew+winer |title = Andrew Winer|website=White Colums}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/entertainment/tn-cpt-1105-winer-20101104-story.html |title = Laguna author premieres new book |website=Los Angeles Times | date=12 March 2014 }}</ref> In 2000, he received an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of California, Irvine,<ref name="encyclopedia.com"/> and, two years later, published his first novel, ''The Color Midnight Made'', an acclaimed national bestseller.<ref name="encyclopedia.com"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-xpm-2002-07-12-export7013-story.html |title = Being the character |website=Daily Pilot | date=12 July 2002 }}</ref><ref name="auto6">{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-xpm-2011-03-24-tn-dpt-0325-happs-20110324-story.html/ |title = Wordsmiths offer tips, insights |website=Los Angeles Times|author1= Candice Baker|date = 24 March 2011 }}</ref><ref name="auto7">{{cite web |url=https://news.uci.edu/2011/03/28/literary-orange-to-draw-book-lovers-to-uci/ |title = Literary Orange to draw book lovers to UCI |website=UCI News|date = 28 March 2011 }}</ref>

In 2004, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Fiction,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.arts.gov/grants/recent-grants/literature-fellowships?field_year_value=All&field_lit_fellows_type_value=3&title=andrew+winer |title = Literature Fellowships |website=National Endowment for the Arts}}</ref> and a literary residency at Literar-Mechana<ref>{{cite book|title=The Marriage Artist|location=New York|publisher=Picador|year=2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2BrWZxtObN8C&q=the+marriage+artist%2F|isbn=9781429995993|page=}}</ref> in Vienna, Austria, where he started research for his second novel, ''The Marriage Artist'', published in 2010 by Henry Holt and Co., and republished in a hardcover edition by Picador in 2011.<ref name="auto12">{{cite web |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2010/10/29/behind-the-words/ |title = Behind the Words |website=The Orange County Register|date = 29 October 2010 }}</ref><ref name="auto8">{{cite web |url=https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312610722/themarriageartist/ |title = The Marriage Artist |website=US Macmillan}}</ref><ref name="auto10">{{cite web |url=https://www.powells.com/book/marriage-artist-9780805091786?p_isbn&partnerid=41403/ |title = The Marriage Artist |website=Powell's City of Books}}</ref><ref name="auto11">{{cite web |url=https://therumpus.net/2010/11/08/the-marriage-artist/ |title = Review: The Marriage Artist |website= The Rumpus|author=John Wiewohl}}</ref>

Winer has conducted public conversations with writers such as Rachel Cusk, Colm Toibin,<ref name="auto3">{{cite web |url=https://vimeo.com/191864099 |title = Vimeo: Santa Barbara Museum| date=16 November 2016 }}</ref> Adam Zagajewski,<ref name="Santa Barbara Museum of Art">{{Cite web|url=https://www.sbma.net/search/google/andrew+winer|title=Google search: Andrew Winer|website= Santa Barbara Museum of Art}}</ref> Geoff Dyer,<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U65AKNMusE8 |title = YouTube: Santa Barbara Museum| website=YouTube }}</ref> Akwaeke Emezi, Jane Smiley,<ref name="auto1">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw9uKjCsi6A |title = YouTube: Santa Barbara Museum| website=YouTube }}</ref> Will Self, and Juan Felipe Herrera. He has given talks on artists such as Marsden Hartley, Ellsworth Kelly, and Martin Johnson Heade, and on writers such as Fernando Pessoa and Emil Cioran. His philosophical work is focused on Friedrich Nietzsche. With Nietzsche scholar Maudemarie Clark, he is writing a book on Nietzsche for Oxford University Press.<ref name="auto5"/>

He has also written extensively for art catalogs and national and international art publications such as BLAU INTERNATIONAL or Gagosian Quarterly. Some of the artists he has written about include Vija Celmins, Eric Fischl, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Harold Ancart, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, and Glenn Brown.

Winer is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.<ref name="auto2">{{cite web |url=https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/andreww |title = UCR Profile Andrew Winer| website=UCR }}</ref><ref name="encyclopedia.com"/>

== Bibliography ==

===Novels=== *''The Marriage Artist''. Henry Holt & Company. New York. 2010. Hardcover. 384p. {{isbn|978-0-8050-9178-6}}. *''The Color Midnight Made''. New York: Simon & Schuster. 2002. Hardcover. 258p. {{isbn|0743439902}}.

===Selected essays and stories===

*"The Grandeur of Standing Alone - what we can learn from Hadrian." ''BLAU INTERNATIONAL''. Issue 12. 2025. *"Silence, Time, And Making Matter Matter - on the work of Vija Celmins." ''BLAU INTERNATIONAL''. Issue 10. Summer 2024, pp. 110-123. *"The interpreter of crisscrossing subjectivities." ''Pessoa Plural''. Issue 21. 2022, pp. 480-485.<ref name="The interpreter of crisscrossing subjectivities">{{Cite journal|url=https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:9pqptuhu/|title=Pessoa Plural|website= repository.library.brown.edu|year=2022 |last1=Winer |first1=Andrew }}</ref> *"Simply Nietzsche: A Review." with Maudemarie Clark. ''The Philosophers' Magazine''. Issue 91, 4th Quarter. 2020, pp.115-118.<ref name="Simply Nietzsche">{{Cite web|url=https://archive.philosophersmag.com/simply-nietzsche-a-review/|title=Philosophers' Magazine|website= Philosophers' Magazine}}</ref> *"Remembering Philip Roth." ''Los Angeles Review of Books''. 2018.<ref name="Remembering Philip Roth">{{Cite web|url=https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/in-memoriam/remembering-philip-roth-1933-2018/|title=Remembering Philip Roth|website= Los Angeles Review of Books|date=24 May 2018 }}</ref> *"The Pain of the Wound and the Balm of Having Understood the Gods." ''Pessoa Plural''. Issue 14. 2018, pp. 394-397.<ref name="Pessoa Pl">{{Cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/45461404|title=The Pain of the Wound and the Balm of Having Understood the Gods|journal= Pessoa Plural―A Journal of Fernando Pessoa Studies|date=January 2018 }}</ref> *"On Fernando Pessoa." ''BOMB Magazine''. 2017.<ref name="Pessoa">{{Cite web|url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/looking-back-2017-literature/|title=On Fernando Pessoa|website= BOMB Magazine|date=14 December 2017 }}</ref> *"Loneliness and Politics with E.M. Cioran." with Martin, C. Tin House, 2017.<ref name="Cioran">{{Cite web|url=https://tinhouse.com/loneliness-politics-e-m-corian/ |title=Loneliness and Politics with E.M. Cioran|website= Tin House|date=10 August 2017 }}</ref> *"Zijn Nood is de Onze" (His Need is Our Need, translated into Dutch by Gerda Baardman). ''Nexus 55''. The Netherlands. 2010, pp.165-167. *"Darmstadt." {{Cite book|year=2010|title=Hook, Line & Sinister: Short Stories|edition=hardcover|editor=T. Jefferson Parker|publisher=Countryman Press/W. W. Norton & Company|location=Vermont/New York|pages=97–118}} *"The Fish Whisperer." ''Faultline - Journal of Art &amp; Literature'' Vol. 14: 2005, pp.122-128. * {{cite book|chapter=Bruce Nauman|title=ART + PERFORMANCE: Bruce Nauman|editor=Robert C. Morgan|publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press|year=2002|pages=206–207}} *"Death, Desire, and Honor in the films of John Woo." ''New Fat Magazine'' Vol. 1: 1, 1994, pp.33-34. *"The Photography of Richard Misrach." ''Art Issues'' 18, 1991, p.23. *"Bruce Nauman." ''Art Issues'' 17, 1991, p.32. *"Neue Sachlickkeit: German Photography." ''Art Issues'' 16, 1991, p.36. *"Fred Fehlau." ''Art Issues'' 16, 1991, p.34. *"Riding with Spyder." ''CalArts Literary Journal''. 400 Rubs, 1990, pp.53-59.

== Public conversations and talks ==

*"Shadow Art: Influences and Inspirations." April 2022, Santa Barbara Art Museum. Santa Barbara, CA.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxaGYpt3Q7o |title = YouTube: Santa Barbara Museum| website=YouTube }}</ref> *"Writing Love in the Face of Disaster: Juan Felipe Herrera and Andrew Winer." March 2020, Santa Barbara Art Museum. Santa Barbara, CA.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjEhexC5914 |title = YouTube: Santa Barbara Museum| website=YouTube }}</ref> *"Love Comes First Beauty Follows: Jane Smiley & Andrew Winer." February 2020, Santa Barbara Art Museum. Santa Barbara, CA.<ref name="auto1"/> *"Dismantling Hierarchies: Alex Espinoza and Andrew Winer." March 2019, Santa Barbara Art Museum. Santa Barbara, CA.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXTF_6h5wms |title = YouTube: Santa Barbara Museum| website=YouTube }}</ref> *"On Marsden Hartley." October 2018, Docent Council Lecture, Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Santa Barbara, CA.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAnoojM_iIU |title = YouTube: Santa Barbara Museum| website=YouTube }}</ref> *Public Conversation with novelist Akwaeke Emezi. September 2018, Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin. Peter-Weiss-Stiftung für Kunst und Politik e.V., Berlin, Germany. *"Poetry as Portraiture: Adam Zagajewski and Andrew Winer." April 2018, Santa Barbara Art Museum. Santa Barbara, CA.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pflgd_1Ncv8 |title = YouTube: Santa Barbara Museum| website=YouTube }}</ref> *"Should We Praise the Mutilated World?: Poetry from California to Krakow": Robert Hass and Adam Zagajewski with Andrew Winer. April 2018. ALOUD Library Foundation of Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lfla.org/event/praise-mutilated-world-poetry-california-krakow/ |title = Should We Praise the Mutilated World? Poetry from California to Krakow |website=Library Foundation of Los Angeles}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://soundcloud.com/aloudla/should-we-praise-the-mutilated-world-poetry-from-california-to-krakow?/ |title = SoundCloud Podcast}}</ref> *"On Martin Johnson Heade." February 2018, Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Santa Barbara, CA.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mogdIvtZ-Jg |title = YouTube: Santa Barbara Museum| website=YouTube }}</ref> *"The Pain of the Hurt Being Compensated by the Pride of Having Understood the Gods: Why Emil Cioran and Fernando Pessoa, Among All Writers, Offer Supreme Company to the Contemporary Novelist." International Symposium "Cioran and Pessoa - Two Exegetes of Infelicity" ("Cioran şi Pessoa - doi exegeţi ai nefericirii"). National Foundation for Science and Art, National Museum of Romanian Literature, Romanian Academy - Department of Philology and Literature, Faculty of Letters - University of Bucharest, French Embassy in Romania, the French Institute in Bucharest, the National Museum of Art of Romania. November 2016, Bucharest, Romania.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://unibuc-ro.translate.goog/simpozionul-international-cioran-pessoa-doi-exegeti-ai-nefericirii/?_x_tr_sl=ro&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc |title = Universitatea din București (website)| date=23 November 2016 }}</ref> *"Longing and Disappointment: Geoff Dyer and Andrew Winer." October 2016, Santa Barbara Art Museum. Santa Barbara, CA.<ref name="auto"/> *"On Art, Fiction, and Henry James: Colm Tóibín and Andrew Winer in Conversation." June 2016, Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA.<ref name="auto3"/>

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