Winsom Winsom

Winsom (born 1946) is a Maroon Canadian multi-media artist working in textiles, painting, video, installations, and puppetry. Her work explores human spirituality.

Biography Winsom was born in 1946 in Jamaica, She has held solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands. In 2003, Winsom had four exhibitions running concurrently in several Toronto galleries.

Winsom's work was featured in the 2017 group exhibition Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971–1989 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, curated by Wanda Nanibush.

In 2018 to 2019, the Art Gallery of Ontario presented a solo show of her work, curated by Andrea Fatona, entitled "I Rise". It was in this context that Winsom partook in a performative dinner with the Black Wimmin Artists (BWA) collective called The Feast in 2019. Her installation titled "The Masks We Wear" was exhibited at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre in 2022.

Awards and honors NOW Magazine described Winsom as "the defining artist of Black History Month in Toronto".