Winston Branch

Winston Branch was born on Saint Lucia, the sovereign island in the Caribbean Sea, in 1947.[1] He still has a home there while maintaining a studio in California.

Branch in his atelier, circa 2002

Life and work

Branch studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, and at the British School at Rome.[2] He was a professor of art at the University of California, Berkeley and at Kansas State University.[3] He also taught at Slade School, Chelsea Art School, Kingston Art School, and Goldsmith's College of Art, all in London.

He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1978,[4] the British Prix de Rome, a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship to Berlin, a sponsorship to Belize from the Organization of American States, and was Artist in Residence at Fisk University in Tennessee.

Exhibitions of his work have been held at the Oakland Museum of California, the Alliance Francaise de San Francisco, the permanent collection of the Berkeley Art Museum, the 11th and 23rd São Paulo Art Biennial, Museo de Arte Moderno in São Paulo, the 4th Bienal de Pincture de Cuenca, Modern Art Museum (Cuenca, Ecuador) and the Biennale de Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

His paintings are in public and private collections. Several are in St.Lucia, Germany and France: the British Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The Arts Council of Great Britain, Sinclair Research Limited (United Kingdom), Victoria and Albert Museum,[3] John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Sprint World Headquarters Campus, and Her Majesty's Military Government (Berlin, Germany).

References

  1. ↑ Popovic, Caroline (December 1995). "Winston Branch: The Precarious Life of Art". Caribbean Beat (16).
  2. ↑ Martin, Wendy (1 January 1999). "A matter of survival—a portrait of Winston branch". Women's Studies 28 (3): 281–290. doi:10.1080/00497878.1999.9979260.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sommer, Julia. "Painter Winston Branch". Berkeleyan. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  4. ↑ "Winston Branch". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
Branch in his studio with Ceramist Yoshi Ikeda

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