Terry Winters (American, )

Terry Winters (American, b.1949) is a painter and engraver whose paintings resonate well with the Modernist legacy. Winters was born in Brooklyn, NY, and he graduated with a BFA from the Pratt Institute in 1971. After graduation, Winters painted for 10 straight years without exhibiting his work even a single time, making his first solo exhibition debut at the Sonnabend Gallery, New York, in 1982. In the 1970s, Winters and his peers such as Carroll Dunham (American, b.1949) and Stephen Mueller (American, b.1947) were interested in variegated mark making without sacrificing the physicality and non-narrative abstractness that were integral to Modernism. Most of Winters''s work is inspired by architecture, technology, and the natural sciences in general. In the 1990s, Winters started to use a lot of grids and colored shapes in his paintings. Winters is also a highly skilled printmaker and draftsman, and he often exhibits works from this genre aside from his painting exhibitions. Examples of his works include THEOPRASTUS'' GARDEN (1982), Process Color (2007), and Wood/Cut/Figures (2011).

In 1982, Bill Goldston invited Winters to print at the studio of the Universal Limited Art Editions. Winters has also published a number of books including Ocular Proofs (1995), Graphic Primitives (1999), and Filters in Stock (2009). Winters has held a number of solo exhibitions in diverse places, including at the Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, (1982), Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland (1985), University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, (1988), and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2009).

In addition to these solo exhibitions, Winters has also participated in a number of group exhibitions including Drawing in Black and White, at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, (1994), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria, (1997), and Drawings, Russell Bowman Fine Art, Chicago, IL, (2012). Winters is represented by the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York. Winters now lives and works in New York and Geneva, Switzerland.

Timeline

1949
Born in Brooklyn, NY
1971
B.F.A., Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
1977
Began to exhibit his work
1982
Invited by Bill Goldston to print at the studio of the Universal Limited Art Editions
Lives and works in New York, NY and Geneva, Switzerland
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Exhibitions

2012
Drawings, Russell Bowman Fine Art, Chicago
2012
Terry Winters: Cricket Music, Tessellation Figures, & Notebook, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (solo)
2011
Terry Winters: "A new description of nature", Richard A. and Rissa W. Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, Pa (solo
2011
Tankstelle Martin Bormann: New Acquisitions for the Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2011
Measuring the World: Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
2010
Terry Winters: Linking Graphics, Prints 2000-2010, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon (solo)
2010
New Works: Prints, Drawings, Collages, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2010
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2009
Mixografia: Innovation and Collaboration, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
2009
A Decade of Printmaking: 1999-2009, Tsinghua University Art Museum; Today Art Museum, Beijing
2009
Terry Winters: Signal to Noise, Paintings and Drawings 1998-2008, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (solo)
2008
“Terry Winters” Belgium, Patrick de Brock Gallery
2008
“Terry Winters: Recent Works.” Trento, Italy, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli.
2007
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006
New Paintings, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
2006
"Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing," Saint Louis Art Museum, MO
2006
"Recent Acquisitions: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs," The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
2006
"Terry Winters," Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
2006
"Eye on the Collection: Toward Abstraction," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2006
"Recent Drawings," McKee Gallery, New York, NY; Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
2006
"Drawn, Exposed, and Impressed: Recent Works on Paper from the Cleveland Museum," The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
2005
"Notes for Color Coding: Paintings and Monoprints by Terry Winters," Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
2005
"Terry Winters," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2005
"Terry Winters: Prints & Sequences," Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
2005
"Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing" and "Prints into Drawings," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2005
"Terry Winters: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, 1994-2004," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2005
"Brice Marden, Al Taylor, Terry Winters: Works on Paper," David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
2005
"Carroll Dunham, John Newman, Terry Winters," Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
2005
"Eye on the Collection: Toward Abstraction," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2004
"Tear Down This Wall: Paintings From The 1980s," MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
2004
"Terry Winters," Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2004
"Under $2,000 Albers/Zaugg," Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY
2004
"Terry Winters, 1981-1986," Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
2003
"Game Over," Galerie Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich
2003
"Visions and Revisions: Art on Paper since 1960," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2003
"Contemporary Prints and Photographs from the Bruce Brown Collection," Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
2002
"Keine Kleinigkeit," Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
2002
"Terry Winters," Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
2002
"Pressed: The Silkscreen," Tacoma Art Museum, WA
2002
"Images of Nature," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2002
"Drawn from a Family: Contemporary Works on Paper," Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
2002
"Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palms Press," The University Gallery, Amherst, MA
2002
"Terry Winters: Paintings," White Cube, London, UK
2002
"Meisterwerke Der Graphischen Sammlung," Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
2001
"Works on Paper," Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
2001
"Terry Winters: Printed Works," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2001
"Terry Winters: Drawings," Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
2001
"Terry Winters," Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
2001
"Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980s," Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
2001
"The Modern Woodcut," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2000
"Arbeiten auf Papier," Michael Hasenclever, Munich
2000
"Terry Winters," Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
2000
"To The Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive," The Jewish Museum San Francisco, CA
2000
"Botanica," Illinois State University, Normal, Il
1999
"Tricia Brown & Terry Winters: Works on Paper," Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
1999
"Terry Winters: Arbeiten auf Papier," Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
1999
"To the Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive," International Center of Photography, New York, NY
1999
"Terry Winters: Graphic Primitives," Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1998
"Terry Winters," Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1998
"Young Americans 2: New American Art at the Saatchi Gallery," Saatchi Gallery, London
1998
"Master Drawings of the Twentieth Century," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
1996
"Nuevas Abstracciones," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
1994
"Drawing in Black and White," The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1992
"Terry Winters," The Whitney Museum of Art New York
1991
"Terry Winters," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1991
"Sieben amerikanische Maler," Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich
1989
"Selections from the Beatrice and Phillip Gerch Collection," The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
1988
“Terry Winters.” Cologne, Galerie Max Hetzler.
1988
“Terry Winters Painting and Drawing.” Santa Barbara, CA, University Art Museum. (Organizing institution of travelling show)
1987
“Currents 33: Terry Winters.” Saint Louis, MO, The Saint Louis Art Museum
1987
“Terry Winters: Painting and Drawing.” Minneapolis, Walker Art Center
1987
“Terry Winters Drawings.” New York, Sonnabend Gallery
1987
“Terry Winters.” Boston, Mario Diacono Gallery.
1987
“Terry Winters Paintings.” Los Angeles, Daniel Weinberg Gallery
1987
“Terry Winters.” Tokyo, Gallery Mukai
1987
"The 40th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," The Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C.
1986
"Terry Winters: Eight Paintings," The Tate Gallery London
1986
“Terry Winters Paintings.” New York, Sonnabend Gallery.
1986
“Terry Winters Lithographs.” New York, Castelli Graphics.
1986
“Terry Winters (Drawings/Lithographs).” Boston, Barbara Krakow Gallery.
1985
"1985 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art New York
1985
"Terry Winters Bilder und Zeichnungen," Kunstmuseum Lucerne
1984
“Terry Winters.” New York, Sonnabend Gallery.
1984
“Terry Winters.” Los Angeles, Daniel Weinberg Gallery.
1983
“Terry Winters.” Portland, OR, Vollum Center Gallery, Reed College.
1983
"Recent Acquisitions," Solom R. Guggenhein Museum New York
1982
“Terry Winters.” New York, Sonnabend Gallery.
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Public Collections

Whitney Museum, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Tate Museum, London
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Aspen Art Museum
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