Jackie Winsor

American, born in Canada, 1941–2024

BiographyThe second of three daughters, Vera Jacqueline Winsor was born in 1941 in Saint John's, Newfoundland. Her father was an engineer and was transferred frequently during the 1940s, taking the Winsor family to different residences in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. In 1952 the family moved to Boston, although Winsor continued to spend her summers in Newfoundland.

Winsor was selected to attend two art schools in the Boston area during her junior year of high school. After graduation she entered the Massachusetts College of Art. During the summer of her junior year, she attended the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk, Connecticut. She received her B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1965, and continued her art education at Douglass College, Rutgers University, where she met artists Joan Snyder and Keith Sonnier. She received her M.F.A. from Rutgers in 1967, and moved to New York with Sonnier, whom she had married, and Snyder.

Winsor began to exhibit her work in 1968 and continues to do so today. She currently lives and works in New York, where she recently exhibited a series of incised wall pieces at the Paula Cooper Gallery.