13 Facts About Winston Branch

Winston Branch OBE was born on in 1947 and is a British artist originally from Saint Lucia, the sovereign island in the Caribbean Sea.

Winston Branch still has a home there, while maintaining a studio in California.

Works by Branch are included in the collections of Tate Britain, the Legion of Honor De Young Museum in San Francisco, California, and the St Louis Museum of Art in Missouri.

Winston Branch was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978, the British Prix de Rome, a DAAD Fellowship to Berlin, a sponsorship to Belize from the Organization of American States, and was Artist in Residence at Fisk University in Tennessee.

Winston Branch has been a professor of fine arts and has taught at several art institutions in London and in the US.

Winston Branch has worked as a theatrical set designer with various theatre groups.

Winston Branch uses paint like a symbol, a purely aesthetic language, an illustration of spirit.

In 1971, Winston Branch was a visiting tutor at Hornsey College of Art and at Goldsmiths College of Art, London University.

Winston Branch's first visit to the US was as Artist-in-Residence at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, in 1973, and in the UK between 1973 and 1992 he taught at Kingston School of Art, Chelsea Art School and at the Slade School.

Winston Branch was a professor of art at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Kansas State University.

Winston Branch has given several public lectures, including at Oakland Museum of California, at the Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, and at Barrows Hall, University of California at Berkeley.

Winston Branch has subsequently spent more time in London, where he has a close longtime association with the Chelsea Arts Club.

From early on in his career, Winston Branch's work has won recognition and awards, such as the British Prix de Rome in 1971, a DAAD Fellowship to Berlin in 1976, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978.