Jackie Winsor
American, born in Canada, 1941–2024
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.