Carmen Winant

Carmen Winant is an artist and the Roy Lichtenstein Chair of Studio Art at the Ohio State University. Her work utilizes archival and authored photographs to examine feminist care networks, with particular emphasis on intergenerational, multiracial, and sometimes transnational coalition building. Winant’s recent projects have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Sculpture Center, Wexner Center of the Arts, ICA Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and el Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo.

Winant’s artist’s books include The Last Safe Abortion (2024), Arrangements (2022), A Brand New End: Survival and Its Pictures (2022), Instructional Photography: Learning How To Live Now (2021), Notes on Fundamental Joy (2019), and My Birth (2018). Winant is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow in photography, a 2020 FCA Artist Honoree, and a 2021 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient. She is also a community organizer, prison educator, and mother to her two children, Carlo and Rafa, shared with her partner, Luke Stettner.