Michelle Winters

Artist Profile

Michelle Winters

Michelle Winters is a painter and writer from Saint John, N.B., living in Toronto. Her visual work embraces the absurd with deep sincerity and a hedonistic use of colour. Mostly self-taught, she was the winner of the 2017 Artist Project People’s Choice award and received an honorable mention the Visual Arts Mississauga 2019 juried show.

Michelle’s work explores dynamic and improbable scenes, approaching character and tension with a literary sensibility alongside an exuberance for colour, texture, and the very act of painting.

She writes software instructions for a living and retreats to the reaches of her imagination every spare moment. This is how she mounts her resistance.

Awards
• Second Prize – La table!, IMPACT 2023 Juried Exhibition, Neilson Park Creative Centre, 2023
• Honorable Mention – Galleria Mall, Visual Arts Mississauga, 2019
• People’s Choice Award – Birthday on the Orca, Artist Project, 2017

Education
• 2014, Techniques in Oil Painting, OCAD
• 1991-92, Bachelors of Fine Art (incomplete) in Studio Art, Concordia University

Exhibitions:

• The Artist Project, Better Living Center, Toronto, April 2024
• Art Gallery of Mississauga’s Third Annual Juried Show of Visual Arts, (group, juried), Art Gallery of Mississauga, 2023
• IMPACT 2023 Juried Exhibition, (group, juried), Neilson Park Creative Centre, 2023
• Glenhyrst Juried Exhibition, (group, juried), Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant, 2023
• Get Noticed, Red Head Gallery (online gallery), 2022
• VAM 41 Juried Show of Fine Arts (group, juried), Art Gallery of Mississauga, January, 2019
• Overzealous (group, juried), Neilson Park Creative Centre, Toronto, December, 2018
• A Portrait Gallery (group, juried), Propeller Gallery, Toronto, May 2018
• The Artist Project, Better Living Center, Toronto, February 2018
• Vuco Artspace Christmas Market (group), Vuco Artspace, December 2017
• Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, July 2017
• The Artist Project, Better Living Center, Toronto, February 2017
• Fall Emerging Art Exhibition (group, juried), Gallery 1313, Toronto, September, 2016
• Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, July 2016
• Bear at Hitch (solo), Hitch Inc., Toronto, September 2015

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