JESSICA
WINTERS
ART
Raised in Makkovik, I paint what I notice—hands, hills, scraps of light. Stuff that sticks. I get caught up in details. Maybe too much. Maybe I don’t have a big message, just a bunch of small ones.
Sometimes my work is a way to stay connected—to land, to memory, to the women who taught me how to see. Sometimes it's just a quiet attempt at wellness, or nostalgia. How do you feel during a moment of awe? Are you still there? Things shift. So do I.
Every day I look for the courage to explore my own depths—and to honour what surfaces.
Auntie Teaching Me to Make Earrings, 2022
Lichen (Sosta House), 2025
Lichen (Little Duck Island 1), 2023
Lichen (Christine's Hill 1), 2022
Perry's Team, 2022
Untitled, 2025
My Mom, Beading, 2024
Lichen (Hopedale 4), 2023
December 24th, 2024
Awards
2024
Sobey Art Award Longlist
2022
Hnatyshyn Foundation William and Meredith Saunderson Prize for Emerging Artists
2022
NL Arts and Letters Senior Visual Arts Award Recipient
2021
ArtsNL Professional Project Grants Program Grant
2021
UNAAN Artist Program Grant, St. John's NL
2021
Arts and Minds Canada Invitational Artist in Residency Award, Tilting, NL
Exhibitions
Group
2024
S'olh Xaxa Temexw, Our Sacred Earth: Laura Wee Láy Láq and Jessica Bonnie Winters, Marion Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2023
Surfacing, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, ON
2023
Coming into Sight, Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, ON
2022
Erratics, J.K. Contemporary, Fogo Island, NL
2022
Tether, Yukon Arts Center, Whitehorse, YT
2022
The Things That We Love Tell Us What We Are, J.K. Contemporary, Fogo Island, NL
2022
Qautamaat, Art Gallery of Guelph, Guelph, ON
2020
Of Myths and Mountains, The Rooms, St. John's, NL
2019
Nunatsiavut: Our Beautiful Land, La Guilde, Montreal, QC
2019
Wish 150: Newfoundland and Labrador Cod Mosaic, The Rooms, St. John's, NL