Winsom (born 1946)[1] is a Canadian-Jamaican Maroon multi-media artist working in textiles, painting, video, installations, and puppetry.
[5] Her work was featured in the group exhibition, "Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter" (1989), organized by the Diasporic Africa Women's Art Collective (DAWA), which toured in Canada.
[7] 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”.
[8] It was in this context that Winsom partook in a performative dinner with the Black Wimmin Artists (BWA) collective called The Feast in 2019.