ABOUT WINSOR
Winsor Kinkade, LCSW (they/them) is a multimedia artist, community mental health clinician, and educator living and working in unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Territory*, California.
Winsor’s work is invested in decolonial psychologies of liberation at the intersection of art, culturally resonant resistance and healing strategies, queerness, and post-/ complex traumatic community restoration. They believe in collectively forging alternative pathways of decolonized mental health systems, intentionally departing from harmful Eurocentric models of psychology, particularly as it relates to rural Indigenous farmworker communities in California, instead uplifting ancestral wisdom, collectivism, and a deep relationship with the land, art, and community.
Through their artwork, Winsor hopes to encourage the viewer to practice the tools used to create art — curiosity, creativity, imagination, bearing witness to what is often overlooked — and find ways to apply these skills on a broader social scale. What happens when we are deeply curious about another’s reality? Can we create new social systems that are beneficial and healing for everyone? Can we imagine radical alternatives to systemic oppression? What happens in our community when we dare to ask more?
Aside from attending upcoming shows, you can also follow their process on Instagram.
*The land now known as San Francisco is located within the stolen territories of Chochenyo and Karkin lands of the Ohlone Peoples. Winsor wishes to acknowledge and honor the Indigenous communities native to this region who continue to tend to their lifeways and cultivate rematriation.
ARTIST CV
CONTACT
Pronouns: they/them
Email contact@winsorkinkade.com
Instagram @winsorkinkade_
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
A Long Way From Here, Madrone Art Bar, San Francisco CA
2021
How Have You Been?, Woods Outbound, San Francisco CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Santa Cruz Open Studios, Santa Cruz CA
The Soft Animal of Your Body, The Apiary, Santa Barbara CA
19th Annual Enero Zapatista, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego CA
Artist in Residence at Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg CA
2022
37th Annual Made in California Juried Exhibition, Brea Gallery, Brea CA
Connecting Community: Bridges to Understanding, Chan Zuckerburg Community Space, Redwood City CA
18th Annual Enero Zapatista, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego CA
2021 (415) Public Gallery, Youth Art Exchange, San Francisco CA
2020 Hidden Figures, SFWA Gallery, San Francisco CA
2019 It’s a Mafficking, Tiny Telephone Gallery, San Francisco CA
2018 The Art of Pride: LGBTQQI Benefit Art Show, Blackbird, San Francisco CA
2017 Thinking FWD, Thatcher Gallery, San Francisco CA. Recipient of Judges Choice Award
2016 What Will Last, Guistina Gallery, Corvallis OR
AWARDS
2023 California Arts Council Individual Emerging Artist Fellowship
2017 Student’s Choice Award, Thatcher Gallery, San Francisco CA
LECTURES and COURSES
2023 University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Professor for Graduate Course: Community Mental Health: Concepts of Recovery, Wellness, Systems of Care and Advocacy Group Work in Clinical Settings
2023 University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Professor for Graduate Course: Gender and Sexuality
2021 University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Guest Speaker for Art+Architecture Lecture Series: Intersection of Art, Community Mental Health, and Radical Imagination
2019 Univerdidad Nacional de Moquegua Peru, Guest Speaker for Masters of Social Work Class, “Relación entre cambio social y arte (Relationship between art and social change)”
COLLECTIVES
2023 - present Watsonville Community Birth Worker Collective, Watsonville, CA
2021 - present Rancho San Benito Farmworker Liberation Collective, Half Moon Bay, CA
2020 - present Campesina Womb Justice, Santa Cruz, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Create Magazine, Curated Section, 1 (30), 120-123.