Neil Winokur Explained

Neil Winokur
Birth Date:	1945
Birth Place:	New York City, U.S.
Training:	Hunter College, 1967, degree in math and physics
Nationality:	American
Field:	Photographer

Neil Winokur (born 1945) is an American photographer based in New York City.^[1] Winokur's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Biography

Born and raised in New York City, Winokur attended Hunter College, graduating with a degree in math and physics in 1967. Winokur currently works in management at the Strand Bookstore, where he has worked on and off for four-plus decades as a book purchaser.^[2]

Artistic practice

In the early 1970s, Winokur began taking photos after borrowing a camera from a friend, initial experimenting in black and white urban scenes. In 1987, Winokur received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts for his photography.^[3]

Exhibitions

• 1989 - The Photography of Invention: American Pictures - National Museum of American Art^[4]
• 1991 – Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort - MoMA^[5]

Public collections

• Museum of Modern Art^[6]
• Metropolitan Museum of Art^[7]
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art^[8]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Neil Winokur. Fisher. Meredith. March 2, 2016. International Center of Photography.
2. Web site: MATTE: Neil Winokur. Leifheit. Matthew. January 23, 2014. Art F City.
3. Web site: Search Results – John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. https://web.archive.org/web/20121005154055/http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&lower_bound=1987&page=6&query=&upper_bound=1987&x=17&y=9. dead. October 5, 2012. October 5, 2012. 2 July 2019.
4. Book: The Photography of invention: American pictures of the 1980s, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.. Smith. Joshua P. National Museum of American Art (U.S.). 1989. MIT Press. 9780262192804. Cambridge, Mass.. English. 18628921.
5. Book: Pleasures and terrors of domestic comfort: [exhibition, Museum of modern art, New York, September 26 – December 31, 1991|last=Galassi|first=Peter|date=1991|publisher=The Museum of modern art : Distrib. by Harry N. Abrams|isbn=9780870701924|location=New York|language=English|oclc=467709903].
6. Web site: Neil Winokur MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art. 23 June 2019.
7. Web site: Neil Winokur – Betsey Johnson. metmuseum.org. 23 June 2019.
8. Web site: Cindy Sherman: Totem LACMA Collections. collections.lacma.org. 23 June 2019.