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