About the Program
Join us for a walking tour to celebrate Carmen Winant: My Mother and Eye, Winant’s largest and most wide-reaching public exhibition to date, displayed across JCDecaux bus shelters in New York, Chicago, and Boston. Along with Senior Curator Melanie Kress, Winant will lead a tour of several of the artworks in her Public Art Fund exhibition. In conversation, Winant and Kress will share the inspiration behind the new artworks Winant developed for this exhibition and insights into the development of this rare public presentation of Winant’s work.
In this exhibition of 11 new artworks conceived for bus shelters, artist Carmen Winant assembles hundreds of stills from films that she and her mother each made as teenagers driving across the US. Winant collapses the two journeys of freedom and self representation across time and landscapes.
Enjoy the art installations on JCDecaux bus shelters, hear stories from the artist, and make new friends along the way.
Presented by Public Art Fund in partnership with JCDecaux.
About the Artist
Carmen Winant (b. 1983, San Francisco, California) collects photographs from books, magazines, and pamphlets in the archives of women’s health clinics, education centers, and various intentional communities. When accumulated and assembled in large installations by the hundreds or even thousands, these photographs reflect back to us the ways we tell stories; pass down information; and express the value of different bodies, work, and practices through images.
Winant has exhibited her work widely, including in recent solo exhibitions at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (2023); The Dayton Contemporary, Dayton, OH (2023); Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden (2022); and The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA (2022). Her practice has been featured in notable group exhibitions, including Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2024); Her Voice – Echoes of Chantal Akerman, FOMU, Antwerp, Belgium (2023); To Begin Again, ICA Boston, MA (2022-2023); Witch Hunt, Kunsthal Charlottenborg (2021); Being: New Photography, Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY (2018); and In Practice, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY (2018).
Winant holds an MFA from California College of the Arts. San Francisco, CA; MA in Visual and Critical Studies. California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA; and BA in Fine Art and Museum Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA. Winant was a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography and her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico; The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; and KADIST Collection, San Francisco, CA. Winant is a regular contributor to Frieze magazine and is an essential voice in conversations about photography today.
Winant grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and since 2014, has resided in Columbus, Ohio, where she is the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art for Ohio State University.
