Jojin Van Winkle’s video, photography, film, and audio research centers around the practice of listening, focused on resilience and the human condition. Through multimedia projects she blends external experiences with internal reflections. Her work is the subject of a 2023 solo exhibition associated with her recent 2022 Racine Art Museum Artist Fellowship (RAM). Her ongoing work, The Destruction Project, was the subject of a solo exhibition at MMoCA (Madison Museum of Contemporary Art) October 2020 – April 2021. The core of her practice is the process of documenting individuals, places, and objects revealing their stories and uncovering social and psychological implications of everyday existence.

She has participated in artist residencies nationally and internationally, and exhibited large-scale installation art before pursuing lens-based media. In 2016-17 Van Winkle was an artist-in-resident at the Madison Children’s Museum, collaborating with 500 children on a multi-media permanent installation. For the Liberian land rights documentary, The Land Beneath Our Feet (2016, 60 min.), she was an associate producer, with additional camerawork. She was the USA-based cinematographer for PBS/Independent Lens documentary, In the Shadow of Ebola, (2015, 27 min.). Both documentaries screened at international and national festivals, winning awards.

As an assistant professor at Carthage College (Wisconsin/USA), Jojin Van Winkle she teaches, chairs the Art Department and directs the Photography and Film and New Media Program. She has a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) and a Master of Arts (MA) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.