gail winbury painting

SELECTED AWARDS
2022    Selected for 14c Art Fair Showcase exhibition
2019    Awarded Curators Choice, Jersey City
2016    Awarded Curators Choice,  Village West Gallery, Jersey City , NJ
2016    Awarded Travel and Artist Residency/Artist Exchange, Jewish Federation, Arad, Israel
2015    Awarded Curators Choice, The Jersey City Museum, by Donna Gustafson, Ph.D. Curator 
of Zimmerli Museum of Art           
2001   The Curtis Hilliard Memorial Award, NJ Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

EDUCATION
2025     Massachusetts College of Arts and Design, MFA 
2015     Master class with Joan Snyder, Truro, Mass
2014     School of Visual Arts, Residency, Manhattan, NY
2011-2013  School of Visual Arts, painting classes,  Manhattan, NY
1995-2010 Studied with international artist Dorothy Yung
1985    Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, Psy.D.
1978    University of Massachusetts, BS

SELECTED PRESS AND PUBLICATION
2025
Freedom and Frailty; the Intersection of Age and Gender in Abstract Art, Masters Thesis, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts
2023   
artscope Magazine, Review of  The Girl Who Drew Memories, Marta Pauer Tursi
 The Girl Who Drew Memories,  Seven Days in Vermont,
 Artnation Smithsonian Channel, episode 5, artist studio used for introductions 
2022   
REJOINDER , On Trauma, Journal of The Institute for Research on Women, Spring Edition ,Rutgers 
University, New Brunswick, NJ
The Seeping of Memory, essay by Dominique Nahas, art critic and curator, NYC, NJ
 HERSTORY, published by The Victory Drawing Rooms
 The Girl Who Drew Memories, Manchester Times, Manchester, Vermont
Gail Winbury: The Girl Who Drew Memories, "Art Spiel", Melissa Rubin        
2021 
Interview by Graham Dane, Mixcloud and Radio North, Ancorage, Alasaka
 "35 x 35 Art Project USA, book published by Copelouzos Museum
"Who Cares" and article on abstract painters, Vasari21, ed. Ann Landy
2020   
"Gail Winbury, From Psychology to Artist", Attencion-newspaper of San Miguel de Allende,Mexico,  by Ed Young
"ARTISTS' COPING: interview with Gail Winbury " Artspiel blog post, by Etty Yaniv
 "Artists During the Pandemic Gail Winbury",  Vasari21, by Ann Landi
2019   
Susan Eley blog post, " Gail Winbury Studio Visit" quotes from essay by Lily Wei, 2016
2018    Artspiel, "Day by Day an Interview with Gail Winbury", by Etty Yaniv
 Arts in America, on-line guide, part of Reflections exhibition, OTAContemporary
2017   
"Painters talking painting", online Blog, 11 paintings shown
 Radio, Newspaper and magazine interviews, Luneburg, Germany
2016   
Urban Agenda Magazine, focus on paintings of Gail Winbury
Montclair Times,
“Gail Winbury’s work and 73SEE Gallery”
catalog, Solo Exhibit of Gail Winbury Paintings, Drawings and Travel Paintings, edited by Mary Scotti,  
 “Play it Again”, written by Lily Wei, international curator and journalist
2015 
catalog, Mostra Internazionale di Pittura, Matera, Italy, Professor Pino Nicolette
catalog "The BIG Small Show", Victory Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ
“Contrasting Abstraction” reviewed in blog “NOTWHATITIS”
2014   
Interview on NJ 21TV, Gail Winbury’s paintings in The Art Project Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Catalog, The BIG Small Exhibit, a juried exhibit of the Victory Drawing Rooms.
painting published in book and accompanying cd of Bach’s Six Cello Suites, Stephen Hancock
Painting in the past president of the American Psychological Association's slides for symposia, university lectures, and publications.

  
Selected Lectures and Panels
2025
Freedom and Frailty; the Intersection of Age and Gender in Abstract Art, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts
Freedom and Frailty; the Intersection of Age and Gender in Abstract Art, Carter Burden Gallery, New York City, New York
2023     Creativity and Retirement, panel, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2020.   "From Psychology to Art", Arco (Architectural School), San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2019    "Transition in Career: from Psychologist to Artist", The CO-Co Connection, Summit, NJ
2018    "The Darker Side of Humor", The Charles Addams Festival,Westfield,NJ
2017    "Painters and Poets Speak: the Creative Process", Gallery 1978, Maplewood, NJ
2016   “Women in Abstract Expressionism and Winbury’s Work”, 73SEE Gallery, Montclair, NJ
2016   “Finding Your Visual Language”, workshop for artists, Arad, Israel and Westfield, NJ
2016   “Finding Your Visual Language”, Jewish Federation, West Orange, NJ
2015  . “Sex and Death”, Feminist Art Project, 20x20, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers’s University

Curatorial 
2025   What Remains, Dorian Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts
2023   BOLD: Igniting Dialogue, SOWA x MASSART, Boston, Mass., lead curators Gail Winbury, Lauren Comerato, Patrrick Brennen and Davit Botch
2019-2021    "Reinventing EVE: diversity in Jewish Women's Identity", The Jewish Museum of New Jersey, Newark, NJ (cancelled due to the Pandemic)
2017    "UNEXPECTED: What is a painting?", Heinz Otto Gallery, curators Gail Winbury and Paul Pinkman)
2017    “Stolen Identities”, Gallery 1978, Maplewood, NJ
2015    “ It's All About Time”, City Life Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2014    “Members Exhibition”, Contemporary Art Group, Farmstead Art Center, Basking Ridge, NJ

RESIDENCIES and FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Château Orqueveaux Residency, Orqueveaux, France
2021   World of Co-Residency, Sofia, Bulgaria
2019-present   Artist in Residence, The Co-Co, Summit,NJ
2018  Residency, Edgewood Farms, Castle Hill Center for Arts, Truro, Massachusetts 
2016   Residency and Exchange, Grant from Jewish Federation, Arab, Israel
2015   Visual Arts Fellowship, Bau Institute, Otranto Italy
2014   Painting Residency, School of Visual Arts, Manhattan, New York
2015   master-class with Joan Snyder, Castle Hill, Truro, Massachusetts

SELECTED MEMBERSHIPS
NY Artists Circle, Manhattan, NY, 2020-present
Board of Directors, Jewish Museum of NJ, Newark, NJ, 2018-2021
Board of Directors, Contemporary Art Group, 2011-2015 Watchung, NJ
The Feminist Art Project, Rutgers University, 2013-present, NJ
Studio Montclair, 2014,2018, Montclair, NJ
Pro Arts, 2013-present, Jersey City, NJ

COLLECTIONS:
public collection: The Canary Wharf Group, London, United Kingdom
The Copolzous Family Museum, Athens, Greece, Chateau Orqueveaux Gallery, Orqueveaux France
Atlantic Health Care Commission, New Jersey
Private collections: United States, Lunaberg, Germany, Milan, Italy, and London, United Kingdom