From the late 1960s onwards, Jackie Winsor (b. 1941, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada, d. 2024, New York) made sculpture that expanded a Minimalist vocabulary of simple geometric forms, using unrefined materials and grids to investigate process and labor. Working by hand and spending years on some pieces, Winsor produced intimate, tactile sculptures that engage the relationship between interior and exterior. 

In 1979, the Museum of Modern Art presented a mid-career retrospective of Winsor’s work, the first retrospective show of a female artist in the MoMA’s department of Painting and Sculpture since 1946. The retrospective traveled to the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto and the Fort Worth Art Museum in Texas. Winsor was included in the 1977, 1979, and 1983 Biennial Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, and in 1984 her work was featured in American Art Since 1970 at the Whitney Museum. P.S. 1 inaugurated its newly renovated space in Long Island City, Queens with a retrospective of her work in 1997. More recently, her one-person exhibition Jackie Winsor: With and Within was held at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut in 2014 – 2015. In 2022, Winsor had a one-person exhibition at MAMCO in Geneva, Switzerland.

Winsor’s work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Detroit Institute of Arts; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; among others.