Winkfiled has been deeply involved
through life long friendships and projects including book cover designs, poetry journals and collaborative projects with poets from the New York School, including John Ashbery and James Schuyler.
In the
long tradition of artist
friendships, the group stands out as one in which the artists maintained lifelong relationships
through good and bad times, encouraging and critiquing each other in their personal and professional
lives.
His most recent shows include Telepathic Improvisation, a multi-partnered project that marks the first US solo exhibition for the collaborative duo Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz, which he co-curated at CAMH with Alhena Katsof; Atlas, Plural, Monumental, a 25 - year survey of sculpture, video and photography, drawing, and interactive artwork by the inimitable Paul Ramírez Jonas; A Traveling Show, in which individual artworks and the display of a decade - old visual correspondence project between Matt Keegan and Kay Rosen spoke to a
long - standing
friendship and shared interests in humor and language; and THE INTERVIEW: Red, Red Future — a solo exhibition of commissioned works by the artist MPA that traveled to the Whitney Museum of American Art — in which a
live performance and sculptures became vehicles
through which to imagine the future of the red planet and notions of colonization.