Winter Rusiloski was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and grew up in a rural setting outside of the city. Rusiloski earned a BFA in Painting and Related Arts-Dance at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. During her final year, she studied abroad in Cortona, Italy with the University of Georgia. She earned an MFA in Painting with a fellowship award at Texas Christian University and once again studied abroad at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. Rusiloski joined the Baylor University Department of Art in the fall of 2016.
Winter Rusiloski has exhibited nationally, internationally and is in numerous public and private collections throughout the United States. Her exhibition highlights include: The Texas Biennial 2009, three-time Hunting Art Prize Finalist in Houston, Texas Paint Part 2-Out of Abstraction, a survey of Abstract Art in Texas at the Arlington Museum of Art, The Texas Oklahoma Art Prize at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art and The 30th September Competition at the Alexandria Museum of Art. Rusiloski’s work was also included in international exhibitions and publications including Studio Visit Magazine, Dallas Art Fair, and Art Santa Fe. Artspace 111 in Fort Worth, Texas and Mary Tomas Gallery in Dallas, Texas represent her work. She, her husband and five daughters live in West, Texas.
2018 Oso Bay Biennial XX Juried Show: Realism Redeux, Islander Art Gallery, Corpus Christi, TX Fahamu Pecou
10th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Willard Art Center, Idaho Falls, ID Lara Ahola-Young
33rd Annual Positive Negative National Juried Exhibition, Slocumb Galleries at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
2017 Farmington Museum Gateway to Imagination, Farmington Museum, Farmington NM Julie Sasse
40 Under 40 National Art Competition, Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, TX Maggie Adler
30th Annual Northern National Art Competition, Nicolet Art Gallery, Rhinelander, WI Gary Freeburg
30th September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Fine Art, Alexandria, LA Mark Tullos
National Art Encounter Competition, Naples Art Association, Naples, FL Alejo Benedetti, Jade Dellinger, Mallroy McCane O’Conner
Texas National, Koler Arts Center, Nacogdoches, TX Benito Heurta
Chautauqua National Juried Exhibition Order and Chaos, Giles Gallery, Easter Kentucky Univeristy, Richmond, VA Robert L. Croker
2016 Stroke of Genius, Maryland Federation of Art Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD Joey P. Manlapaz
Concerning the Spiritual, Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, MO Bob Langas, Michael Quintero
American Art Today: What is American Art? 16th Annual National Juried Art Exhibition, Bascom Center for the Visual Arts,Highlands, NC Dr. William U. Eiland
Third Annual Regional Juried Exhibtion, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX, Juror Dr. Eric M. Lee
2014 Art in the Metroplex, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX. FWADA Award Recipient Juror Sara Jayne Parsons
2011 Studio Visit Magazine, Juried International Exhibition in Print, Winter Edition. Juror: Jonathan Greene, Independent Curator Jonathan Greene
Non Peer Reviewed Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Majestic Space, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX
2016 Tempest, Weyland Art Gallery, Divine Word College, Epworth, IA
2015 Magnificent Tempest, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX
2014 Winter Rusiloski: Selections from the Tempest Series, Gallery 550, Addison, TX.
Artspace 111 Featured Artist, Fairmount Tour, Fort Worth, TX
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Dual: Winter Rusiloski and Angel E. Fernandez, Texas Wesleyan University Art Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
deadWEST: DUAL- angelFERNANDEZ AND winterRUSILOSKI, deadWEST: GALLERY AND STUDIO, Lakeside, TX
Preservation is the Art of the City, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX. Invitational Exhibition
2016 Texas Contemporary Art Fair, George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, TX
Preservation is the Art of the City, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX. Invitational Exhibition, Tracy Family Award, Juror Dr. Anne Helmrich.
Greatest Hits, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX. Invitational Exhibition
Nature’s First Green is Gold, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX. Invitational Exhibition
deadWEST: OPEN RANGE, deadWEST Gallery and Studio, Lakeside, TX
2015 deadWEST: PLACE AND IDENTITY, deadWEST Gallery and Studio, Lakeside, TX
26 Fall Gallery Night Group Exhibition, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX
FWADA Selections, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX
Preservation is the Art of the City, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX. Invitational Exhibition, Tracy
Family Award: Juror Benito Huerta
2014 Art for Advocacy, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, TX
Dallas Art Fair 2014 – Artspace 111, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, TX
A Way of Remembering, Curator Elaine Taylor, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX. Invitational Exhibition
2013 Pleasure Tempest: Bonny Leibowitz/Winter Rusiloski, Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Playful Intimate Assertive: Peter Colley, Angel Fernandez and Winter Rusiloski, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX
TASA One Foot Cube Exhibition, Lone Star College, Juror: Wade Wilson, 45Houston, TX
The Abstract Show, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX. Invitational Exhibition
Like, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX. Invitational Exhibition
Artspace 111 Pop-UP Gallery, Midland, TX. Invitational Exhibition
2012 The 2012 Hunting Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Friedkin Companies Campus, Houston, TX
2012 ART Santa Fe – Cohn Drennan Contemporary –Santa Fe Convention Center, Santa Fe, NM
AC/OC – Winter Rusiloski, Cathy Drennan and Carmen Menza, Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2011 TASA One Foot Cube Exhibition, East Fork Gallery, Trinity River Campus, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, TX-Awarded Second Place: Juror Heyd Fontenot
pARTners, Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Luminous Discharge, H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery, Dallas, TX. Invitational Exhibition
Linear Stratifications: Heidi Lingamfelter and Winter Rusiloski, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX
Publications:
Michael Granberry, “Arts and Features,” The Dallas Morning News, November 22, 2014
Anthony Mariani “North Texans, Rally Around this Exhibit,” The Fort Worth Weekly, October 27, 2014
Michael Granberry, “Bonny Leibovitz, Winter Rusiloski Stage Pleasure Tempest at Cohn Drennan,” The Dallas Morning News, November 27, 2013
“Abstract Engagement,” Fort Worth Weekly, July 17, 2013
Gaile Robinson, “Landscape of 2 TCC Art Instructors to be Shown at Gallery 414,” DFW.com, March 10, 2011
Hanna Raskin, “Matching Easels,” Dallas Observer, January 27, 2011
Kelley Chinn, “A Firsthand Art Lesson that Mirrors Reality,” Fort Worth Star Telegram, April 23, 2010
J.R. Compton, “Art Here Lately #2: Dallas Artist in the Texas Biennial 2009,” The Dallas Art Review, 2009
Michelle Townsend Wallace, “Heidi Lingamfelter and Winter Rusiloski: Sky Water Leaves Grass Mokah Art Gallery” Dallas Art News, December 7, 2009
Stephen Becker, “Trinity Perspectives: The Artists Speak,” Art and Seek, August 20, 2009
Selected Collections:
Key Management Group, INC,. NY
Tru-Form, Wilkes-Barre, PA
North Texas Commission, Irving, TX
Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Texas Christian University, Chancellor, Dr. Victor J. Boschini, Fort Worth, TX
Texas Christian University, Neeley School of Business, Fort Worth, TX
Texas Christian University, College of Education, Fort Worth, TX
Stellar Machine Inc., Kingston, PA
