{{Short description|Jamaican-Canadian artist}}{{Infobox artist | birth_date = 1946 | birth_place = Jamaica | education = Jamaica School of Art | known_for = visual arts | website = http://winsomwinsom.com/ | awards = Honorary doctorate from Ontario College of Art and Design University }}
'''Winsom''' (born 1946)<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|last=Government of Canada|title=Winsom|url=https://app.pch.gc.ca/application/aac-aic/artiste_detailler_bas-artist_detail_bas.app?lang=en&rID=5847|access-date=2020-09-01|website=Artists in Canada|language=en}}</ref> is a Canadian-Jamaican Maroon multi-media artist working in textiles, painting, video, installations, and puppetry.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Winsom Winsom: The Masks We Wear |url=https://agnes.queensu.ca/exhibition/winsom-winsom-the-masks-we-wear/ |access-date=2022-11-13 |website=Agnes Etherington Art Centre |language=en-US}}</ref> Her work explores human spirituality.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Winsom|date=1994|title=My voice, my art|journal=Canadian Women Studies|volume=14|issue=2|pages=39}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news|last=McQuaid|first=Cate|date=2000-04-08|title=Potent pairing of Jamaican-born artists|pages=71|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/58477515/potent-pairing-of-jamaican-born-artists/|access-date=2020-09-01}}</ref>
== Biography == Winsom was born in 1946 in Jamaica,<ref name=":3" /> where she studied at the Jamaica School of Art.<ref name=":2" /> She immigrated to Canada in 1969.<ref name=":3" /> From 1974 to 1989, she lived in the city of Kingston, Ontario and she co-founded the Kingston's Black Women's Collective.<ref name=":4" />
== Exhibitions == Winsom has been exhibiting her work since the mid-1980s at galleries around the world.<ref name=":0" /> 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.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jim|first=Alice Ming Wai|date=1996|title=An Analysis and Documentation of the 1989 Exhibition "Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter"|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42630552|journal=RACAR: Revue d'art canadienne / Canadian Art Review|volume=23|issue=1/2|pages=71–83|issn=0315-9906}}</ref> She has held solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands.<ref name=":0">{{cite book |title=Canadian Who's Who |publisher=Grey House Publishing |url=https://canadianwhoswho.ca/}}</ref> In 2003, Winsom had four exhibitions running concurrently in several Toronto galleries.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|last1=Hirschmann|first1=Thomas|title=Multi-Winsom Local installation artist's four shows prove that sincerity can trump irony|url=https://nowtoronto.com/art-and-books/art/multi-winsom/|access-date=1 September 2020|website=NOW Magazine|publisher=NOW Central Communications Inc.}}</ref>
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".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Fatona|first1=Andrea|title=Winsom: I Rise|url=https://ago.ca/exhibitions/winsom-i-rise|access-date=1 September 2020|website=AGO}}</ref> It was in this context that Winsom partook in a performative dinner with the Black Wimmin Artists (BWA) collective called ''The Feast'' in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Siddiqui |first=Yasmeen |date=2019-04-05 |title=Black Women Artists Stage a Performative Dinner at the Art Gallery of Ontario |url=http://hyperallergic.com/493409/black-women-artists-stage-a-performative-dinner-at-the-art-gallery-of-ontario/ |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=Hyperallergic |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Parris |first=Amanda |date=2019-02-08 |title=In the heart of the AGO, 100 Black women artists gathered to celebrate. Is it a sign of true change? |work=CBC News |url=https://www.cbc.ca/arts/in-the-heart-of-the-ago-100-black-women-artists-gathered-to-celebrate-is-it-a-sign-of-true-change-1.5011551 |access-date=2023-03-18}}</ref> 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".<ref name=":1" />
In 2015, she was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from OCAD University.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Armstrong|first1=Neil|title=Ontario College Of Art And Design University Honours Celebrated Arts Mentors|url=http://pridenews.ca/2015/06/10/ontario-college-of-art-and-design-university-honours-celebrated-arts-mentors/|access-date=1 September 2020|website=Pride|publisher=Pride News}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links ==
* {{Official website|http://winsomwinsom.com/}}
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