Terry Winters

Terry Winters was born in 1949 in Brooklyn, USA. He obtained his B.F.A. at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, in 1971.

Initially, Winters created works based on botanical imagery such as seeds, cells, and spores; later he became inspired by biological processes and scientific and mathematical theories. His art is highly process-driven and speaks to the interaction between technology and the human mind. Though symbolic, his images are consistent with the Modernist legacy of physicality and non-narrative abstraction. Though best known for his paintings, Winter's is also accomplished draughtsman and printmaker, often with a complex interchange between the three media.

He has had solo exhibitions at Tate Gallery, London; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; the Kunsthalle Basel; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung at the Pinakothek der Moderne and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Winters lives and works in New York and Geneva, Switzerland.

Solo exhibitions

2017

• Terry Winters / Mark Melnicove, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME, April 22 - June 3, 2017
• Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 27 - May 14, 2017

2016

• Terry Winters, Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 W 22 Street, New York, November 4 - December 23, 2016
• Terry Winters: The Structure of Things, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 3, 2016 - June 18, 2017
• The Painter’s Cabinet: Terry Winters’ Dialogue with Nature, Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, March 11 - August 21, 2016
• Nice Weather, Skarstedt, New York, February 25 - April 16, 2016
• Vija Celmins, Thomas Demand, Ellsworth Kelly, Ken Price, Paul Sietsema, Rebecca Warren, Terry Winters, Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 West 22 Street,  New York, February 6 - April 16, 2016

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