CARMEN WINANT USA, b. 1983

Overview

Carmen Winant's expanded photographic practice incorporates found images to create large scale collages, sculptures, artist books and installations that question the representation of women in contemporary society. Her feminist research-based practice employs craft techniques, repetition and unexpected correlations to probe notions of embodiment, feminine power, intimacy, mundanity, and corporeality.

Her books include My Birth (2018), Notes on Fundamental Joy (2019), Instructional Photography: Learning How To Live Now (2021); Arrangements (2022), A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures (2022), and The Last Safe Abortion (2024), winner of the Author Book Award at the Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards.

A Guggenheim fellow in photography, Winant has exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney, Photo Elysée, Aperture Foundation, FOMU Antwerp, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, ICA Boston, Sculpture Center and many others. Her work is held in major collections including The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico city and others.

Works