Redin Winter

I didn’t grow up dreaming of being a painter, but I was always an artist.
I spent my first several decades working in theater (as actor, director and stage hand), running a performing arts center, signing with Top International Modeling Agency Wilhelmina Models and living between stages, studios, and photo sets.
My college roommate was a painter who gave me the opportunity to play with paint—occasional nights spent listening to Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Annie Lennox, Nine Inch Nails, and experimenting with color and line in the margins of our lives. I made art as something I sporadically returned to every so often like a secret ritual, while my main focus was in theatre.

I followed my academic passions into a doctorate in Performance Studies. I studied embodiment, theatre history, feminist theory, abjection. I planned to teach, to stay in that world of rigorous thought. But after years of adjuncting, I felt called to make, to use my hands again the way I did when building sets for the theatre.

When my husband gifted me an easel in 2018, I picked up a brush, not with a plan, but with quiet urgency. I began painting every day, instead of sporadic random evenings. It gave me something nothing else could: a way to feel deeply without...

Doctorate of Philosophy, Theatre and Dance, UC San Diego 2017.
Master of Arts, San Diego State University, Drama and Film, 2011.
Bachelor of Arts, Drama, Seattle University,1998.

Painting Instruction: Kate Ari Ashton, Kristen Ide, Elizabeth Young
Drawing Instruction: Prima Materia Institute
Stage Design and Craft: Carol Wolfe Clay

2026, The Crow Show, The Studio Door, San Diego, California.

2026, Featured Artist, Robin J. Lipman Gallery, Joan Kroc Performing Arts Center, San Diego, California.

2025, Studio Artists: Past and Present, The Studio Door, San Diego, California

2025, Fresh Artworks II, The Studio Door, San Diego, California

2023, Elevated / The Studio Door - San Diego, United States

2023, SA Takeover / The Studio Door - San Diego, United States

2023, Works of Excellence, The Studio Door, San Diego, California.

2023, Aqua, Emporium Gallery, Canada.
2022, "Contemporary Abstraction, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri.
2022, "Women in Art, 2022." Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach.
2021, “Spring Forward” Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Rhode Island
2021 “Elevate” Webster Arts, St. Louis, MS.
2021 “6th Annual Landscapes” Fusion Art, Palm Springs, California.
2020 “Mixed Media Madness”, Ashton Gallery, San Diego, California.
2020 "The Many Faces of Red", Ashton Gallery, San Diego, California.
2020 “TAP”, Art on 30th, San Diego, California.
2019, "Reflections of an Abstract Duet", Redin Winter & Victoria Evans, Ashton Gallery, San Diego.
2019 Ashton Gallery, San Diego, California.
2019 "Gallery in the Street", Festival of the Arts, Sa...