Michael Winkler's visual/conceptual art has been exhibited in galleries and museums including: Kansas City Art Institute; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; The Aldrich Museums's Soho Center Gallery, New York; Kassel Art Museum, Germany, Academy of Fine Art, Poznan, Poland; Kaus Australis Foundation, Rotterdam; and Rosenwald Gallery, University of Pennsylvania (Retrospective of work from 1982-2004). Limited edition books and documentation of his ongoing project are archived in the Special Collections of prominent libraries and museums including: The New York Public Library, The Museum of Modern Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Smithsonian, Yale, Stanford, UCLA, University of Chicago, and University of Pennsylvania. His work has appeared in publications dealing with both art and experimental literary work. It was featured in the IMAGINING LANGUAGE Anthology (Ed: Rasula & McCaffery), MIT Press. Awards include Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.