Photo by Jim Carmody
Artist Biography
Redin Winter (b. 1976) is a visual artist based in San Diego, California, whose work explores interior landscapes shaped by embodiment, memory, and emotional resonance. Her practice emerges from a multidisciplinary background spanning performance, scholarship, and lived experience, bringing a depth of inquiry to the painted surface.
Winter did not arrive at painting through a traditional visual arts trajectory. She spent her early career in theater—working as a performer, running a performing arts center, and later signing with Wilhelmina Models—living between stages, studios, and photo sets. Visual art entered her life quietly, through intimate experimentation with paint during her college years, functioning as a private ritual rather than a public pursuit.
She earned a PhD in Performance Studies from the University of California San Diego, with research focused on embodiment, feminist theory, theatre history, and abjection. After years of adjunct teaching, Winter felt called back to making—to working with her hands in the way she once built theatrical worlds. When she returned to painting, she did so with daily devotion and without agenda, discovering the studio as a site of presence, listening, and repair.
Motherhood has been central to this return. As a mother, Winter encountered persistent cultural narratives suggesting that her role as a mother diminished artistic seriousness. Rather than retreat, she allowed this tension to inform her work. Several of her ongoing bodies of work emerged from the space between devotion and disappearance, visibility and erasure. Her practice insists that mothers belong fully within contemporary art discourse and that their lived experience carries intellectual, emotional, and cultural weight.
Winter has exhibited nationally and internationally, with work held in private collections across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. She is a resident artist at The Studio Door in San Diego and has been featured in print, online publications, and television.
Artist Statement
My work explores the interior landscape focusing on how emotion, memory, and perception shape our understanding of self and others. Working through abstraction and gesture, I approach painting as a process of inquiry, using the physical act of mark-making to investigate the relationship between thought, feeling, and embodiment.
Rather than illustrating specific narratives, the paintings create atmospheric spaces where sensation and reflection can unfold. Layers of color, movement, and erasure mirror the complexity of emotional experience and the ways we process it over time.
At its core, my practice is about connection. Each work begins as a personal investigation into the rhythms of inner life, but it is completed through the viewer—when someone recognizes something of their own emotional landscape within the work.
Curriculum Vitae
Redin Winter
Artist CV
b. 1976
Education
University of California San Diego, Doctorate of Philosophy, Theatre and Dance, 2017.
San Diego State University, Master of Arts, Drama and Film, 2011.
Seattle University, Bachelor of Arts, Drama, 1998.
Studied Visual Art Under:
Kate Ashton, Abstract Painting, 2018-2019.
Kristen Ide, Abstract Painting and Drawing, 2018 – 2019.
Prima Materia Institute, Realism Drawing, 2019.
Carol Wolfe Clay, Drawing, Design, 1996 – 1998.
Elizabeth Young, Painting, 1996 – 1998.
Solo Exhibition
2023, Inner Landscapes, The Studio Door, San Diego, California.
2019, Reflections of an Abstract Duet, Redin Winter & Victoria Evans, Ashton Gallery, San Diego, California.
Group Exhibitions
2026, The Crow Show, The Studio Door, San Diego, California.
2026, Featured Artist, Robin J. Lipman Gallery, Joan Kroc Performing Arts Center, San Diego, California. (February 12, 2026 - March 20, 2026).
2025, December Art Exhibition, The Studio Door, San Diego, California.
2025, Studio Artists: Past and Present, The Studio Door, San Diego, California
2025, Fresh Artworks II, The Studio Door, San Diego, California
2023, Elevated / The Studio Door - San Diego, United States
2023, SA Takeover / The Studio Door - San Diego, United States
2023, Works of Excellence, The Studio Door, San Diego, California.
2023, Aqua, Emporium Gallery, Canada.
2022, Contemporary Abstraction, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri.
2022, Women in Art, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, California.
2021, Spring Forward, National Art Exhibition, Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Rhode Island
2021, Elevate, National Art Exhibition, Webster Arts, St. Louis, Missouri.
2021, 6th Annual Landscapes Juried Art Exhibition, Fusion Art, Palm Springs, California.
2020, Mixed Media Madness, Ashton Gallery, San Diego, California.
2020, The Many Faces of Red, Ashton Gallery, San Diego, California.
2020, TAP, Art on 30th, San Diego, California.
2019, CNote, Ashton Gallery, San Diego, California.
2019, Gallery in the Street, Festival of the Arts, San Diego, California.
2019, Ivory Dreams, Studio Days, Art on 30th, San Diego, California.
2019, The Color of Love, Ashton Gallery, San Diego, California.
2018, C-Note, Ashton Gallery, San Diego, California.
2018, Art in the Street, The Studio Door, San Diego, California.
Grants, Residencies, Special Projects
2022 - Present, Resident Artist, The Studio Door, San Diego, California.
2020, Medici Circle, University of California, Irvine, Mixed Media Collaborative Presentation
2019 – 2020, Resident Artist, Art on 30th, San Diego
Press
“Studio Artists: Past and Present,” The Word, 2025. Print/Online.
“Inner Horizons: An Emotional Landscape Collection”, Singulart, 2025. Online.
East County Magazine, January, 2023. Online.
“Meet Redin Winter”, Canvas Rebel, June 2022. Online.
The Art Edit, House and Garden, UK, November 2021. Print.
The Art Edit, House and Garden, UK, October 2021. Print.
The Art Edit, House and Garden, UK, September 2021. Print.
The Art Edit, House and Garden, UK, August 2021. Print.
“Painter uses anxiety of breathing in the age of COVID as inspiration.” The East County Californian, Front Page Feature. Published. Online and Print.
San Diego ShoutOut, Published
October, Curator Picks: New for October, Artfinder. Online. 2020.
May, Curator Pick: Artist of the Day, Artfinder. Online. 2020.
The CW 8, San Diego, News Interview, Recorded, 2019.
SD Voyager Magazine, Published, 2019.
Collections
Private Collections across the United States, the United Kingdom, and Europe. A sample of sold artworks can be found on the website.