Quick Facts
Biography
Carmen Winant (born 1983, San Francisco, California) is a writer and visual artist who explores representations of women through collage, mixed media and installation. She lives and works in Columbus, Ohio.
Early life and education
She received her BA from UCLA and master's degrees in Critical Studies and Fine Arts from the California College of the Arts in 2011. In 2010, she was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Work
Visual
Winant's large-scale collages present a mosaic of clippings of women's figures and bodies (e.g. Pictures of Women Working; A World Without Men). She also makes collages that combine text and image (e.g. What Would You Do if You Weren’t Afraid? (Women in the News Before November 8, 2016). In 2015 Winant published My Life as a Man, an artist book with Horses Think Press.
During the 2016 election, Winant created a print called Hillary Forever which was sold by I Feel Like Hillz, with proceeds going to Planned Parenthood.
Text
Winant has written for Aperture, Cabinet, TIME, and Frieze, Artforum.com and The Believer.
Exhibitions
Solo
(2016) Pictures of Women Working, Skibum MacArthur, Los Angeles, California.
(2016) Who Says Pain is Erotic?, Fortnight Institute, New York.
Group
(2017) Gray Matter. Wexner Center for the Arts.Columbus, Ohio.
(2017) Your Body Is a Battleground. VOLTA13, New York.
(2016-2017) 'Gathered: Snapshots from the Peter J. Cohen Gift and Works by Carmen Winant and Luke Stettner', Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
(2016) Utopia Banished. Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, Ohio.
(2016) Sexting. Kate Werble Gallery, New York.
(2016) Myths of the Academy, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
(2015) How to Remain Human, MOCA Cleveland.