Emi Winter, Number 13, 2021, Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches, #EW23
Emi Winter, Number 4, 2020, Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches, #EW27
Emi Winter, Number 5, 2020, Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches, 153 x 122 cm, #EW29
Emi Winter, Number 10, 2020, Oil on canvas, 60 x 48 inches, 153 x 122 cm, #EW30
Emi Winter, Hook, 2020, Oil on canvas, 56 x 46 inches, #EW31
Emi Winter, Untitled, 2021, Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches, #EW32
Emi Winter, Untitled, 2021, Oil on canvas, 14 x 11 inches, #EW35
Emi Winter, Untitled, 2021, Oil on canvas, 11 x 14 inches, #EW36
Emi Winter, Untitled, 2021, Oil on canvas, 12 x 9 inches, #EW37.jpg
Emi Winter, Untitled, 2021, Oil on paper, 12 x 9 inches, #EW38
Emi Winter, Untitled, 2021, Oil on paper, 12 x 9 inches, #EW39
Emi Winter, Untitled, 2021, Oil on paper, 12 x 9 inches, #EW40
Emi Winter, Untitled, 2021, Oil on paper, 12 x 9 inches, #EW42
Emi Winter, Untitled, 2021, Oil on paper, 12 x 9 inches, #EW44
Emi Winter, The Annunciation 3 (After El Greco), 2019, Oil on canvas, 78 x 52 inches
Emi Winter, The Annuciation 4 (After El Greco), 2019, Oil on canvas, 78 x 52 inches
Emi Winter, Heart with Peonies, 2019, Oil on canvas, 65 x 81 inches
Emi Winter, Split and Unraveled, 2017, Oil on canvas, 54 x 60 inches
Emi Winter, At the Shore, 2017, Oil on canvas, 52 x 42 inches
Emi Winter, Into the Storm, 2017, Oil on canvas, 37 x 34 inches
Emi Winter, Laocoon, 2017, Oil on canvas, 36 x 54 inches
Emi Winter, Figure, 2016, Oil on canvas, 48 x 36 inches
Emi Winter, Handstand, 2016, Oil on canvas, 96 x 60 inches
Biography
Emi Winter (b. 1973) was born and raised in Oaxaca, Mexico. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally for the past two decades, most recently at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA), High Museum (Atlanta, GA), National Gallery of Art (Washington DC), Ulterior Gallery (New York, NY), The Suburban (Milwaukee, WI), Parker Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Maine College of Art (Portland, ME), and V1 Gallery (Copenhagen, Denmark).
In 2011 she was awarded the Acquisition Prize for the XV Edition of the Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial in Mexico. She has also completed residencies at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, and Ateliers Hoeherweg in Dusseldorf, Germany. Her work is included in the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno, Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (all Mexico), McNay Art Museum (San Antonio, TX), and the Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts / Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA).
Winter has also curated solo exhibitions of the work of Andrea Sala and Martin Mele for the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (Mexico) and co-curated our collaborative survey exhibition Minus Space in Oaxaca, which was presented simultaneously by five distinguished cultural institutions in the city in 2012.
Winter earned her BA in visual arts from Oberlin College and MFA in painting from Bard College. She currently lives in South Orange, New Jersey, and teaches bilingual art classes to Latino immigrants at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Summit.
Statement
Painting is an urgent matter for me, a necessary process for understanding my environment and myself in it. I use different pictorial languages to create various kinds of works simultaneously, jumping back and forth between techniques and formats. I make work from observation as well as non-objective work; singular pieces and works in a series; copies of masterpieces and narratives of my own invention. Painting always feels elemental because of the sumptuousness of the material and color. Painting is wandering, arriving and departing again. My practice extends to drawing, printmaking and textiles and manifests, as a whole, my immediate life experience.
La pintura es urgente para mi, un proceso necesario para entender mi entorno y el lugar que ocupo en él. Utilizo diferentes lenguajes pictóricos para crear varios tipos de obra simultáneamente, saltando entre técnicas y formatos. Hago obra a partir de la observación y obra no objetiva; piezas singulares y obras en serie; copias de obras maestras y narrativas de mi propia invención. Siento la pintura como algo elemental por la suntuosidad del material y el color. La pintura es vagar, arribar y partir nuevamente. Mi obra se extiende al dibujo, el grabado y el textil y manifiesta, en conjunto, mi vivencia inmediata.
Interviews + Videos
Conversation with Emi Winter, Sound & Vision podcast, July 22, 2021
Emi Winter Online Artist Talk, MINUS SPACE, June 4, 2021
Cabin Fever Artist Talk: Emi Winter, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, October 6, 2020
Emi Winter, Visita mi estudio, April 21, 2020
Emi Winter: Explosión de color, El Imparcial, October 27, 2014
Catalogs
Outliers and American Vanguard Art. Lynne Cooke. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018
American Genre: Contemporary Painting. Michelle Grabner and Marie Shurkus. Portland, Maine: Institute of Contemporary Art, 2017
Pintura: México, Vol. 1. Luisa Reyes Retana and Enrique Giner de los Rios. Mexico City: Sicomoro Ediciones and Secretería de Cultura, 2017
Emi Winter: Pintura 2002-2013. Francisco Castro Leñero and Marianne Stockebrand. Oaxaca, Mexico: Secretería de las Culturas y Artes de Oaxaca, 2013
Diez Artistas Contemporáneos en Oaxaca. Karen Cordero Reiman, Linda Atach Zaga, and Guillermo Fricke Labastida. Oaxaca, Mexico: Punta Cometa Ediciones Culturales, 2013
XV Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo. Juan Carlos Pereda, Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz, and Melanie Smith. Mexico City: Fundación Olga y Rufino Tamayo, A.C., 2012
“Me gusta el plástico,” Puntos de Encuentro. Oaxaca, Mexico: 2012
MINUS SPACE en Oaxaca: Panorama de 31 artistas internacionales, 2012
Oaxaca at the Crossroads. Selma Holo. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2004
Gotas para los ojos. Steffen Boddeker y Jorge Contreras. Oaxaca, México: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, 2003
VIII Salón de Arte Bancomer. Paloma Porraz and Ery Camara. Mexico City: Museo de Arte Moderno, 2002
Emi Winter: Gráfica. Steffen Boddeker. Oaxaca, México: Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, 2001
Web Site
www.emiwinter.com
Our Artsy Page
www.artsy.net/minus-space/artist/emi-winter
Social Media
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