ABOUT WINSOR
Hello, my name is winsor (they/them). Art has saved my life more times than I can count. I’m an artist, a licensed clinical social worker, a community mental health therapist, a listener, a big feeler, a survivor, a Taurus sun Aires moon and Cancer rising, an auntie, a land and animal tender, and an educator living and working on stolen territories of Chochenyo and Karkin lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone Peoples in california, who continue to tend to their lifeways and cultivate fierce rematriation. I was born and raised here, learning alongside oak trees, cypress, bobcats, and our mama ocean. These beings, together with my human communities, shaped my earliest understandings of interdependence, grief, resilience, and the sacredness of creativity.
I am queer, white (irish, scottish, finnish, and sicilian), non-binary, neurodivergent, bilingual nepantlera (english and spanish), living with autoimmune and congenital heart disease, healing from trauma, and descendent of a long, messy lineage of artists, land-tenders, farmworkers, farmers, and community birth workers. My ancestors and kin include people who were incarcerated, rebels who diverged from the path most taken, abusers and survivors, people living with disabilities, those who struggled with substance use, and all who carried systemic and spiritual wounds deeply impacting their mental health. I honor this complicated inheritance, acknowledging that both rupture and repair travel through bloodlines, and that the work of tending to what is broken is itself necessary ancestral practice.
My work is invested in decolonial psychologies of liberation, where art, culturally resonant resistance, and healing strategies converge. It is a praxis of acompañamiento and testimonio, honoring queerness in the expansive way bell hooks defines it — as a site of resistance, boundary-crossing, and love. I orient my work toward post-/complex traumatic community healing, carried out not in isolation but in relation: walking with the guidance of elders, the wisdom of Zapatistas and Panthers, the brilliance of poets, artists, non-academics, the radical unfolding of abolitionist movements, and the voices of rivers, animals, and ancestors.
I believe in seeding alternative pathways for art-making and decolonized mental health — pathways that are collective, reciprocal, and accountable to land and community. This requires intentional departure from harmful colonial models of whiteness embedded in psychology, and a return to networks of cultural ancestral wisdom, collectivism, and relational healing. Juntos somos más fuertes. El pueblo unido jamás será vencido.
Resistance, for me, is not separate from art or life — it is woven into the everyday act of creating and imagining otherwise. My art aims to trouble the knots tied by racism, coloniality, ableism, and the exploitation of earth, opening up robust discourse that connects community wellness to the systemic issues at the root of social injustice. It carries commitments to racial justice, the abolition of prisons, psychiatric systems, borders, police, and ICE, and the co-creation of liberatory visions that multiply, refusing one horizon and daring to imagine many worlds at once.
Through my artwork, I invite others to practice the tools that art itself teaches us: curiosity, imagination, presence, and bearing witness to what is systemically silenced through coloniality. I call this practice artemonio (arte + testimonio) — an embodied invitation to exercise a decolonial imaginary and weave creative coalitions where art becomes a collective testimony, a ritual of resistance and refusal, and a seed of many possible futures.
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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
2025
Resist: A community art show, River Studio, Santa Cruz CA
21st Annual Enero Zapatista, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego CA
2024
20th Annual Enero Zapatista, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego CA
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
2023-2025 University of San Francisco, San Francisco CA, Professor for Graduate Course: Gender and Sexuality
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
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 - 2023 Rancho San Benito Farmworker Collective, Half Moon Bay, CA
2020 - present Campesina Womb Justice, Santa Cruz, CA
PUBLICATIONS
2022 Create Magazine, Curated Section, 1 (30), 120-123.