Mankato artist Josh Winkler works primarily with traditional and contemporary print media with a focus on relief processes.
“As an artist, I am most concerned with our environment, how humans manipulate and label the land, and a common disregard for the history of place as we grow in population and consume energy. By combining personal experience with historic investigation, I build layered landscape narratives that ask viewers to consider the social, political and environmental contexts of their surroundings. I utilize a range of drawing, printmaking, and sculptural processes to facilitate these ideas.”
Since receiving his MFA from the University of Minnesota in 2010, he has worked for a non-profit printmaking center, taught printmaking, and consistently exhibited work nationally / internationally. Winkler is currently an Associate Professor of Printmaking at Minnesota State University.
Winkler’s work is in public collections including Yale University, Hennepin County Public Library, The Yukon Archives in Whitehorse YT, and The Quebec National Archives in Montreal. In 2018, Winkler exhibited in group shows in British Columbia, Spain, and throughout the United States. He completed a two-week artist residency on the Chilkoot Trail in Alaska, and a six-week residency at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in the Yukon Territory of Canada. Winkler was recently selected for a 15-week artist residency at the Bell Museum of Natural History.
Josh Winkler is a 2019 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
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