“Trevor Winkfield's patented blend of Pop Art, Surrealism and Victoriana remains a dependable source of formal and poetic gratification. His new, mostly easel-size paintings have an appealing modesty of scale and a fine balance of complexity and lucidity.

With their high-contrast colors and cartoon contours defining an array of layered, overlapping and interweaving forms - broad and curvy shapes, sharp and spiky shapes, spiraling ribbons, stripes, rays and dots - the paintings are optically enthralling. And the iconography of bottles, fish, flowers, fruits, vegetables, feathers, wings, furniture, architecture and sculpture into compositions of classical order and lively buoyancy, hints at some possibly deep metaphorical meaning.

You get the feeling that Mr. Winkfield's disjunctively scrambled images are loaded with private associations. An assiduous interpreter might discover some underlying narrative logic or an esoteric system like Neoplatonism. But the imagery might just as easily have been taken at random from a clip book of classical and Victorian emblems. Either way, the combination of mercurial imagination and excellent pictorial craftmanship is a treat for both mind and eye.”

-Ken Johnson
THE NEW YORKER, January 26, 2004

1944 Born: Leeds, England
1969 Moved to New York

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

Solo Exhibitions
1999 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Barbara Ann Levy Gallery, New York
1997 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
1996 E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York
1995 E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York
1989 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
1986 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
1985 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1980 Blue Mountain Gallery, New York
1978 Coracle Gallery, London, England
1977 Fischbach Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions
2001 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
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
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