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1944 Born in Leeds, England
1969 Moved to New York

Education:

1960-64 Leeds College of Art, Leeds. Intermediate Certificate of Art
1964-67 Royal College of Art, London. M.A. in Fine Art

Solo Exhibitions:

2010 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York; also 2008, 2006, 2004, 2002, 1999, 1997
2009 Turtle Point Press, New York
2008 A Survey of Paintings, 1994-2008. Erie Art Museum, PA
1999 Barbara Ann Levy Gallery, New York
1996 E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York; also 1995
1989 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York; also 1986
1985 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1980 Blue Mountain Gallery, New York
1978 Coracle Gallery, London, England
1977 Fischbach Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2011 David True & Trevor Winkfield: Paintings, Charles B. Benenson Visitors Center at Omi International, Ghent, NY
Painters & Poets, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

2010 Poems and Pictures, Center for Book Arts, New York
Strategic Abstraction, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
The Grenfell Press: Thirty Years of Collaboration, Knoedler Project Space, New York
A Two Gallery Teacup Show, Rose Burlington Gallery & Turtle Point Press, New York
Painting and Sculpture: To Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Art, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
Evolution of a Gallery, Blue Mountain Gallery, New York

2009 Asbery Covers, etc, Turtle Point Press, New York

2008 Invitational Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Painting in the Park, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York

2007 Demoiselles Revisited, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York

2006 SUPER Natural, Center Gallery, Fordham University, New York
Facets of Perception, Wiengand Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA
Light in August, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Apres Nous, Le Deluge, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York
The 181st Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York
My Friends: Their Vision, Weber Fine Arts, Greenwich, CT
Zeuxis: Facets of Perception, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY
Artful Jesters, The Painting Center, New York; traveling to Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT

2005 Vinyl, Christian Brothers School, Cork, Eire
Too Much Bliss: Twenty Years of Granary Books, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA

2004 Hothouse Contemporary Floras, New York Academy of Sciences, New York
Endless Love, DC Moore Gallery, New York

2003 Zeuxis: A Moveable Feast, Westbeth Gallery, New York

2002 177th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York

2001 Art Transplant, British Artists in New York, British Consul-General's Residence, New York
Works on Paper, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Self-Made Men, DC Moore Gallery, New York

2000 Useful Indiscretions, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Reconfiguration, Danese Gallery, New York
Still Life - The Object in Art, HBO Corporate Gallery, New York
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
Invitational Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Exhibition of Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

1999 Twenty Years of The Grenfell Press, Paul Morris Gallery, New York
Paper View, Plaza Gallery, Fordham University, New York
Elliott Green, Jane Hammond, David True, Trevor Winkfield, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Paper View, Plaza Gallery, Fordham University, New York

1997 Grins, Millard Sheets Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Animal Tales, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
Abstract Tendencies, Rice University Gallery, Lawrenceville, NJ

1995 Murder, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA

1994 Books from the Grenfell Press, Revolution Gallery, Detroit, MI
A Garden of Earthly Delights, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL

1993 Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York
The American Livre de Peinture, Grolier Club, New York
Personal Imagery: Chicago/New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
The Painters' Theater, The Baxter Gallery, Portland, ME

1992 Prints, Drawings and Books, Marlborough Gallery, New York

1991 Bestiary, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
A Bestiary, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
The Tree, Elysium Arts, New York

1990 Gallery Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
Critic's Choice, Washburn Gallery, New York

1989 A Coracle, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT

Selected Bibliography:

2010 Champion, Miles. Interview, PN Review (May – June, November – December)
Goodrich, John. City Arts (August 3 – September 13)
Quilter, Jenni. “The Book is in the World,” American Book Review (March – April).

2009 Paley, Maggie. Interview, www.bombsite.com
Quilter Jenni. “We even imagined the posters: collaborations between John Ashbery, Harry Mathews, and Trevor Winkfield,” World and Image Vol.25, no. 2 (April – June).

2008 Maynes, Bill. Interview, www.fravleinspeil.com
Cohen, David. “The Conceptual Collagist.” The New York Sun (September 4).
Green, Elliott. “Trevor Winkfield.” ARTnews (November).

2006 Bosworth, Beth, ed. The Saint Ann’s Review: A Journal of Contemporary Arts & Letters Brooklyn,
NY: Saint Ann’s School, 2006. (4 reproductions)
Naves. Mario. “Un-Hyped Academy Annual Quietly Takes the Long View.” New York Observer (June 2).
Johnson, Ken. “For a Broad Landscape, An Equally Wide Survey.” The New York Times (May 31).
Esplund, Lance. “The Academy Hedges Its Bets.” The New York Sun (May 18).

2004 Goodrich, John, "Trevor Winkfield: Gardens & Bouquets," artcritical.com, February.
Johnson, Ken, "Art in Review: Trevor Winkfield, Gardens and Bouquets," January 30.
Naves, Mario, "A Pop-Flavored Carnival Happily Dedicated to Delight," January 26. Review, The New Yorker, January 26.

2003 Esplund, Lance, "Winkfield's Vocations," Art in America, January.

2002 Corbett, William, "A Mysterious Clarity," Modern Painters, Summer Review, The New Yorker, January 28.
Naves, Mario. "Winkfield Indulging," The New York Observer, January 21.

2001 Sandler, Irving. Art Transplant: British Artists in New York, Harris/Hansbury.

2000 Kernan, Nathan. "Trevor Winkfield: Works on Paper, 1976-1982," Art on Paper, March - April.
Nadelman, Cynthia. "Trevor Winkfield," Artnews, February.

1999 Naves, Mario. "Painting in the Margins, Where the Action Is," The New York Observer, November 1.
Review, The New Yorker, November 1.
Ashbery, John. "Exactly Enough," James White Review, Fall.
Johnson, Ken. "Printmaking as a Magical Collaboration," The New York Times, July 30.
Perl, Jed. "Signs of the Times," New Republic, November 8.
Youens, Rachel. "Trevor Winkfield at Tibor de Nagy," New York Arts, November.

1998 Goodman, Jonathan. "Trevor Winkfield at Tibor de Nagy," Art in America, March.
Breidenbach, Tom. "Trevor Winkfield," Artforum, March.
Bamberger, W.C. "Pageant," Poetry Project Newsletter, April - May.
Perl, Jed. "Cabinet of Curiosities," On Paper, May-June.

1997 Griffin, Tim. "Trevor Winkfield, 'The Voyage Series & Other Works,'" Time Out New York, December 24, 1997 - January 8, 1998.
Johnson, Ken. "Trevor Winkfield," The New York Times, December 12.
Viksjo, Cathy. "Representing the Abstract," Trenton Times, September 26.

1996 Perl, Jed. "Winkfield's Pageant," Modern Painters, Autumn.
Smith, Roberta. "Palettes Full of Ideas About What Painting Should Be," The New York Times,
November 1.

1995 Perl, Jed. "War Stories," New Republic, May 8.
Ebony, David. "Trevor Winkfield at E.M. Donahue," Art in America, November.
Naves, Mario. "Trevor Winkfield", The New York Review of Art, Summer.
Wright, Geoff. "Trevor Winkfield," Cover, April.

1994 Mathews, Harry and Lynne Crawford. "Oulipo-Oulipeinpo," New Observations, no. 99,January- February.
Wright, Jeff. "Sparks of New York from Flint," Cover, February.

1993 Cornell, Joseph. Theater of the Mind, New York: Thames and Hudson.
Greenleaf, Ken. " 'Theater' Puts Nine Painters in the Spotlight," Maine Sunday Telegram,June 4.
Padgett, Ron. "A Note on Trevor Winkfield," Lingo, no.2, December.
Perl, Jed. "Booked," New Criterion, May.
Perl, Jed. "Code Name: Painting," New Criterion, December.
Philips, Elizabeth and Tony Zwicker. The American Livre de Peinture, New York: Grolier Club.
Schaffner, Ingrid. The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, New York: The Drawing Center.

1991 Corbett, William. "Trevor Winkfield's Altarpieces," Agni, no.34.
Winkfield, Trevor. " I Pause Here with a Dozen Daubs Unillustrated," Modern Painters, Autumn.

1990 Mahoney, Robert. "Critics Choice. In the Realm of the Plausible," Flash Art, March.
Perl, Jed. "Charmed Lives," Vogue, August.
Rubinstein, Meyer Raphael. "Singular Volumes," Arts Magazine, March.

1989 Little, Carl."Trevor Winkfield at Thorp," Art in America, September.
Perl, Jed. "Comedy of Styles," New Criterion, September. (Reprinted Gallery Going. New York: Harcourt Brace Javanovich, 1991.)
Pierpoint, Claudia Roth. "Cut Ups and Classics," Art and Antiques, October.
Rand, Archie. "Trevor Winkfield's Goon Show," Arts Magazine, September.
Yau, John. "The World According to Winkfield," Cover, May.

1986 Ashbery, John. "Winkfield's Dissecting Table," Art in America, June. (Reprinted, Reported Sightings, New York: Knopf, 1989)
Masters, Greg. "Where Angels Fear to Tread with Passports," Say!, April.
Potter, Everett. Arts Magazine, January, 1986.
Russell, John. "Trevor Winkfield," The New York Times, February 7.
Schwabsky, Barry. "Trevor Winkfield," Arts Magazine, May.
Shapiro, David. "A Resurrected Childhood: An Interview with Trevor Winkfield," Arts Magazine, May.
Shapiro, David. "David Shapiro Speaks with Trevor Winkfield," Frank, no.5, Spring.
Yau, John. "Trevor Winkfield," Artforum, May.

1985 Joselit, David. Trevor Winkfield: Currents No. 10, Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art.
Vitt, Walter, Bagage de Baargeld, Frankfurt: Josef Keller Verlag.

1981 North, Charles. "Trevor Winkfield at Blue Mountain," Art in America, March.
Winkfield, Trevor. "Smatterings of Radical Daftness," Reaktion, no.6.

1980 Ashbery, John. "Ramshackle Kennels Glimpsed by Moonlight," New York Magazine, October 6.
Russell, John. "Trevor Winkfield," The New York Times, October 17.

1977 Ashbery, John. "Trevor Winkfield at Fischbach," Art in America, May- June.
Zimmer, William. "Trevor Winkfield and John Dash," The Soho Weekly News, March 3.

Books:

1997 Perl, Jed. Trevor Winkfield's Pageant, With an Introduction by John Ashbery, West Stockbridge, MA. Hard Press.

1994 Winkfield, Trevor. In The Scissors' Courtyard: Selected Writings 1967-75, Flint, MI. Bamberger Books.

1978 Winkfield, Trevor. Analytical Dottiness, London. Coracle Press.

Awards:

2010 Yaddo Fellowship; also 2008, 2006
2009 Peter S. Reed Foundation
2008 Pollock-Krasner Foundation; also 1989
2008 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Purchase Prize
2002The Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettre.
2000 American Academy of Arts and Letters, Academy Award in Art
1993 Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art
1993 Hillwood Fellowship
1990 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1989 Pollock- Krasner Award
1986 Engelhard Award

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