Nechama Winston (b. Brooklyn, NY, 1989) is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in NYC. She has participated in exhibitions and screenings at Essex Flowers, NYC; the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; The Split Film Festival, Croatia; AURORA, Dallas, TX; the International Center of Photography Museum, NYC; The Film-Makers' Cooperative, NYC; the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania; and the University of Oslo, Norway; among others. She is the co-founder and editor of New Poetics Publishing and works at Asya Geisberg Gallery. Winston received an MFA from Bard College-International Center of Photography, and a BA in Art History and Behavioral Neuroscience from CUNY Hunter College, NYC. She recently completed a yearlong fellowship at the 14th Street Y and is a member of The Film-Makers' Cooperative and Gowanus Darkroom.
Winston uses photography, moving-image, and text to question how vision frames a politics of looking, bridging the imaginary with the familiar. Her current focus is in exploring the ways in which darkness helps fosters a bodily way of seeing and experiencing through different modes of perception. She is interested in using the procedures of photography as a means to investigate social politics, history, and narrative, while working with the dark as a material and concept. Winston often produces work in black and white as a method of abstraction to push the ways narrative can be conveyed through space. Editing and montaging archival research, still images, writing, and video is often used in her practice to question the validity of the document and to probe photography as a time-based experience. She often interweaves personal experiences and memories with collective ones.