biography

Terry Winters, born 1949 in Brooklyn, is a contemporary American painter and printmaker. He studied at the Pratt Institute where he obtained the BFA in 1971. While his first paintings explore the Minimalism influenced by Brice Marden, Winters later took an interest in Process Art. He started to make his own pigments and to study mineralogy and biology in which he saw an associative and metaphoric potential. This ultimately led him to depict organic abstractions, botanical shapes and schematic references to scientific processes.

An exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1992 brought him on the map to  the art world and is considered a great influence on younger artists.

The artist currently lives and works in New York.

 

His works have been subject of numerous exhibitions at known institutions such as The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), The Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Museum Folkwang (Essen) and Kunsthalle Basel.

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

Terry Winters: New Work, Tobias Mueller Modern Art, Zurich

Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions, Fine Arts Center University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst

Terry Winters, Auroras, Sao Paulo

 

2018

Facts and Fictions, The Drawing Center, New York

 

2016

The Structure of Things, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Painter’s Cabinet: Terry Winters’ Dialogue with Nature, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz

 

2015

Prints 1999-2014, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek

 

2014

Red Green Yellow Blue, T Space, Rhinebeck

Prints 1999-2014, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Printed Matters, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville

 

2010

Linking Graphics. Prints 2000-2010, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland

 

2009

Signal to Noise, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

 

2006

Verre + Dessins, Musée departemental du Compagnonnage, Romanèche-Thorins

 

2005

Prints & Sequences, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville

Terry Winters, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose

 

2004

Paintings, Drawings, Prints 1994-2004, The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover

Local Group/New Work on Paper, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

 

2003

Zeichnungen/Drawings, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

 

2001

Printed Works, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

2000

Terry Winters, Kunsthalle, Basel

 

1999

Drawings, Whitechapel Gallery, London

 

1998

Prints by Terry Winters, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit

Terry Winters, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia

Folio, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

 

1997

Recent Works, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

 

1992

Terry Winters, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

 

1991

Terry Winters, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

 

1989

Drawings, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee

 

1988

Painting and Drawing, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

1987

Currents 33, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis

Painting and Drawing, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

 

1986

Eight Paintings, Tate Gallery, London

Focus, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings

 

1985

Bilder und Zeichnungen, Kunstmuseum, Luzern

 

1983

Terry Winters, Vollum Center, Gallery, Reed College, Portland