Winters (born 1949) received a BFA from Pratt University, New York, in 1971.
He has had solo exhibitions at Tate Gallery, London; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1999); the Kunsthalle Basel (2000); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2001); and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2009).
Winters lives and works in New York City and Columbia County, New York.