# Winsom > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Winsom > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Winsom.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsom > Source revision: 1340140092 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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){{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}} is a Canadian-[Jamaican Maroon](/source/Jamaican_Maroons) multi-media artist working in textiles, painting, video, installations, and puppetry.{{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}} Her work explores human spirituality.{{Cite journal|last=Winsom|date=1994|title=My voice, my art|journal=Canadian Women Studies|volume=14|issue=2|pages=39}}{{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}} == Biography == Winsom was born in 1946 in Jamaica, where she studied at the [Jamaica School of Art](/source/Jamaica_School_of_Art). She immigrated to Canada in 1969. From 1974 to 1989, she lived in the city of [Kingston, Ontario](/source/Kingston%2C_Ontario) and she co-founded the Kingston's Black Women's Collective. == Exhibitions == Winsom has been exhibiting her work since the mid-1980s at galleries around the world. Her work was featured in the group exhibition, "[Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter](/source/Black_Wimmin%3A_When_and_Where_We_Enter)" (1989), organized by the [Diasporic Africa Women's Art Collective (DAWA)](/source/Diasporic_African_Women%E2%80%99s_Art_Collective_(DAWA)), which toured in Canada.{{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}} She has held solo exhibitions at the [Art Gallery of Ontario](/source/Art_Gallery_of_Ontario) and the [National Gallery of the Cayman Islands](/source/National_Gallery_of_the_Cayman_Islands).{{cite book |title=Canadian Who's Who |publisher=Grey House Publishing |url=https://canadianwhoswho.ca/}} In 2003, Winsom had four exhibitions running concurrently in several Toronto galleries.{{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.}} Winsom's work was featured in the 2017 group exhibition Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971–1989 at the [Art Gallery of Ontario](/source/Art_Gallery_of_Ontario), curated by [Wanda Nanibush](/source/Wanda_Nanibush). In 2018 to 2019, the Art Gallery of Ontario presented a solo show of her work, curated by [Andrea Fatona](/source/Andrea_Fatona), entitled "I Rise".{{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}} It was in this context that Winsom partook in a performative dinner with the Black Wimmin Artists (BWA) collective called ''The Feast'' in 2019.{{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}}{{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}} Her installation titled "The Masks We Wear" was exhibited at the [Agnes Etherington Art Centre](/source/Agnes_Etherington_Art_Centre) in 2022. == Awards and honors == [NOW Magazine](/source/Now_(newspaper)) described Winsom as "the defining artist of Black History Month in Toronto". In 2015, she was the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from [OCAD University](/source/OCAD_University).{{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}} == References == {{Reflist}} == External links == * {{Official website|http://winsomwinsom.com/}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Winsom}} Category:1946 births Category:Living people Category:Artists from Toronto Category:20th-century Canadian artists Category:20th-century Canadian women artists Category:21st-century Canadian artists Category:21st-century Canadian women artists Category:Jamaican emigrants to Canada --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Winsom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsom) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winsom?action=history)). 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