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
News
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CARMEN WINANT | WHITNEY BIENNIAL
GROUP EXHIBITION 11 August 2024Carmen Winant is exhibiting her large-scale installation The Last Safe Abortion (2023) in the 2024 Whitney Biennial, the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the...Read more -
CARMEN WINANT | RENCONTRES D'ARLES
BOOK AWARD WINNER 1 July 2024Carmen Winant won the Author Award at the 2024 Rencontre d'Arles Book Awards for The Last Safe Abortion (2024). Focusing on the near-fifty-year period in...Read more -
CARMEN WINANT | MOCA
COLLECTION 28 April 2024Works from Carmen Winant's Togethering (2020) series are held in the permanent collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and were exhibited in...Read more -
CARMEN WINANT | NEW YORK TIMES
COMMISSION 29 January 2023The New York Times commissioned Carmen Winant to produce an original work reflecting on gun violence in America. A photograph of the artist's collage covered...Read more -
CARMEN WINANT | ARTFORUM
PRESS 10 January 2021In Artforum, Zoë Lescaze writes on Carmen Winant's Togethering (2020) series. Touch is our first teacher. Long before language takes hold, we absorb lessons in...Read more -
CARMEN WINANT | MOMA
GROUP EXHIBITION 18 March - 19 August 2018Carment Winant participated in the group exhibition Being: New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2018, curated by Lucy Gallun....Read more