Winston Roeth is born in Chicago in 1945.

As an art student he attends the University of Illinois, the University of New Mexico, and the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

 

During the 1960s, in the early stages of his artistic career, he comes across some artists who will deeply influence his practice.

In 1963, while visiting the Art Institute in Chicago he sees for the first time Ad Reinhardt' s 'Black Square'; “I didn't know what it was about, but I knew it was about something” he later confesses. From then on, Reinhardt's work becomes a point of reference for Roeth.

Three years later, Roeth is particularly startled by 'Nebraska', a painting by Brice Marden. Something about it is “new”and “open” to Roeth, and he will continue to value those qualities.

In 1968-69, while attending the Royal College of Art in London, Roeth paints a series of single colored paintings (9ftx12ft), which are breakthroughs for him. In the words of Roeth “The paintings began with the first stroke and ended when the entire surface was filled. It took me days to complete it with a very small brush. One color... it was enough. I felt free”.

 

In 1974, at the Robert Elkon Gallery in NYC, he sees a group of small grid drawings by Agnes Martin. Never before he had seen anything so “clear” and “focused”. The small pen and ink drawings are transcendent.

 

The phenomenology of colour, light and space represent central issues in his painting practice. Following years of research exploring light and colour on material surfaces, he has developed the core of his technique. Making use of a brush, he applies layer upon layer of pure pigments mixed with water and polyurethane dispersion to slowly and extensively explore the surface. He strives to find colour saturations that turn the pigments into light.

Nowadays, Winston Roeth is a globally known artist. His studios are based in Mid-Coast Maine and Beacon, NY; however, he exhibits extensively in Europe, mainly in Germany and in Italy.

He is one of a selected group of artists in the prestigious art collection of Giuseppe Panza di Biumo.

He lives and works with his wife, Susan Osberg, a coreographer and dancer. He has worked with her in the Dance Theatre creating set designs and collaborating with lighting designer Susanne Poulin.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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2020-2021

Speed of light, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany

2018

The Speed of Light, Galerie Vera Murno, Hamburg, Germany

Trabajos Destacados, Xavier Fiol Project Space, Madrid, Spain

Catalogue launch and new drawings exhibition, Galerie Christian Lathert, Cologne, Germany

2017

Bartha Contemporary, London, UK Jensen Gallery Sysdney, Australia

2015

New Works, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Frank Gerritz and Winston Roeth, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany (with Frank Gerritz)

2013

Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Xavier Fiol Galeria, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

2012

Bartha Contemporary, London, UK

Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA

Galeria Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany

2011

Works on Paper, Olschewski+Behm, Frankfurt, Germany

Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2010

Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2009

Xavier Fiol Galeria, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2008

Pablo’s Birthday, New York, NY, USA

2007

Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany

Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA

2006

Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Gallery Bartha Contemporary, London, UK

Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland

2004

Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM, USA

2002

Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

New Painting, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2001

Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo

Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo, Sassuolo, Italy

2000

Gallerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany

Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1999

Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

1998

Artothek, Cologne, Germany

1997

Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1996

Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany

1995

Recent Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1993

Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Drawings, Galleri Ars Nova, Goteborg, Sweden

1992

Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1991

Galleri Ars Nova, Goteborg, Sweden

1990

Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1989

Invitational Exhibition, Griffin McGear Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1988

Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1980

The Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ, USA

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2020

The Unseen Masterpiece, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2019

Permafrost, Fox-Jensen Gallery, Sidney, Australia

2018

Portrait without a Face, Fox-Jensen Gallery, Sidney, Australia

Twenty, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2017

COLOR as attitude. Ruth Ann Fredenthal, Winston Roeth, Phil Sims, Osart Gallery, Milan

IN NEUEN RÄUMEN!, Galerie Christian Lathert, Cologne, Germany

Galerie Xavier Fiol, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Blickwechsel, Kunstraum Alexander-Buerkle, Freiburg Germany

2015

Painting Well after Formalism, Fox-Jensen Gallery, Auckland, Australia

The Authority Of Death, Jensen Gallery Auckland, Auckland, Australia

Pink. Ruff-Nikolic-Leigh-Roeth-Knoebel-Humphries, Jensen Gallery, Sydney,

Australia Galerie Artists, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany

2014

Elemental: Susan English, Winston Roeth and Greg Slick, Matteawan Gallery, New York, NY, USA connect., Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt, Germany

Haupt- und Nebenwege, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany

2013

Points of Orientation, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Rim. Imi Knoebel, Winston Roeth, Tomislav Nikolic, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Once upon a time and a very good time it was..., Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Touching Colour, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

INDICATE, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia

Farben – Colours, Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus and Sammlung Schroth, Soest, Germany

2012

Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY, USA

Works on Paper, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK Fox/Jensen & Greenwood Street Project, Victoria, Australia

2010

Naked, Jensen Gallery, Auchland, New Zealand

Painting, Howard Yezerki Gallery, Boston, MA, USA

2009

Other Voices, Other Roomes, curated by Steven Evans, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY, USA

2008

Straight Forward: Tobias Trutwin, Karoly Keseru, Frank Gerritz, Winston Roeth, Pablo’s Birthday, NY,

New York, USA

20/20, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Recent acquisitions, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, USA

2007

The Panza Collection: An Experience of Colour and Light, Albright-Knox, Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY, USA

All from America (Part Two), Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany

Headspace, Jensen Gallery, Auchland, New Zealand

2006

All From America (Part One), Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany

Detox, Jensen Gallery, New Zealand

Modern ’06, Bartha Contemporary, Residenz, Munich, Germany

2005

Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Reflex: The Brain Closer than the Eye, Gallery N. von Bartha, London, UK

Modern ’05, Bartha Contemporary, Residenz, Munich, Germany

First Choice, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany

Minimal Means, Kunstverein, Eislingen, Germany

Frank Gerritz and Winston Roeth, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany

Lux, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2004

Einblick – Ausblick, Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary, Munich, Germany

There’s Joy in Repetition, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2003

Seascape, Landscape, Territory, Nusser Baumgart Contemporary, Munich, Germany

2002

Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany

White, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary, Munich, Germany Bartha Contemporary, London, UK

2001

Radical Painting, curated by Nino Weinstock, Villa Aichele, Städtische Galerie, Lörrach, Germany 1999

Then & Now, The Work Space (curated by Theresa Chong), New York, NY, USA

1998

Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1997

Andrew Jensen Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Drawing From Life, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1996

La Collezione Panza di Biumo. Artist degli anni '80 e '90, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di

Trento e Roverto, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy * White, Howard Scott-M13 Gallery, New York, NY, USA Drawings, Galerie Art In, Nuremburg, Germany

1995

Color: Sign, System, Sensibility, Stark Gallery (curated by Richard Kalina), New York, NY, USA

The Panza di Biumo Donation, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland

Light/Body - Dark/Body, collaboration with Susan Osberg, dancer/ choreographer; Dia Center for the Arts and Unga Atalante, Goteborg, Sweden

1994

The Constructive Vocabulary: An American Vision, Galerie Dr. Istvan Schlegl, Zurich, Switzerland X-Sightings, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY, USA

Collector's Choice: Natalie and Irving Forman, Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA

Ars Nova Galleri, Goteborg, Sweden

1993

Uses of Geometry: Winston Roeth, Cary Smith, Stephen Westfall,etc., Snyder Fine Arts, New York, USA

Supervision, Raum fur neue Kunst, Wuppertal, Germany

Sublime Presence: Stuart Arends, Madeline O'Connor, Florence, Italy

Pierce, Winston Roeth, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM, USA

Contemporary Drawing - Part II, Arena, New York, NY, USA

1992

7-NY: Directions in Abstract Painting, Studio A, Museum Moderner Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany

Painting, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Cultural Fabrication, John Good Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Mercury, Light installation, Stark Gallery (Annex), New York, NY, USA

1991

Abstraction: Recent Prints, Betsy Senior Contemporary Prints, New York, NY, USA

The Process of Looking, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Geometric Considerations, Capital Cities/ABC, New York, NY, USA

Paper Trail, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1990

Opening Group Exhibition, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Cruciform, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1989

M-13 Gallery, New York, NY, USA

An Extraction of Form, Robeson Center Gallery (curated by Alison Weld), Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA;

Three Artists Who Work With Slate, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Small Works on Paper, Susanna Sheffield Gallery, Houston, TX, USA

Pastel Drawings, Islip Museum (curated by Karen Shaw), Islip, New York, NY, USA

Light Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1988-89

Collaboration with Susan Osberg, dancer/choreographer; Malcolm Goldstein, violinist/composer and Susanne Poulin, lighting designer; Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA

1986

Intuition, collaboration with Susan Osberg, choreographer and James Tenney, composer; Riverside Dance Festival, New York, NY, USA

1986

Slate, An installation at Springs Industries; project of the Art Advisory Service, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

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