Paul Winstanley

Paul Winstanley is a British painter and photographer based in London. Since the late 1980s, he has been known for meticulously rendered, photo-based paintings of uninhabited, commonplace, semi-public interiors and nondescript landscapes viewed through interior or vehicle windows. He marries traditional values of the still life and landscape genres—the painstaking transcription of color, light, atmosphere and detail—with contemporary technology and sensibilities, such as the sparseness of minimalism. His work investigates observation and memory, the process of making and viewing paintings, and the collective post-modern experience of utopian modernist architecture and social space. Critics such as Adrian Searle and Mark Durden have written that Winstanley's art has confronted "a crisis in painting," exploring mimesis and meditation in conjunction with photography and video; they suggest he "deliberately confuses painting's ontology" in order to potentially reconcile it with those mediums.

Winstanley has exhibited at institutions including the Tate, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MoCA LA), Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Royal Academy of Arts (London), Esbjerg Kunstmuseum (Denmark), Walker Art Center, and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. His work belongs to the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, British Council, MoCA LA, IMMA, and Tate, among others.