Kip Fulbeck

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Kip Fulbeck is an artist, filmmaker, writer, slam poet, and spoken word performer. His background is Cantonese, English, Irish, and Welsh. He attended UCLA, Dartmouth College, and UCSD. At UCSD, he was a four-year NCAA All-American Swimmer and 1988 Athlete of the Year. He earned his M.F.A. from UCSD in 1992.

Fulbeck is recognized as one of the world's premier artists exploring Hapa identity.

His films and performance work have shown in over 20 countries, aired on PBS, and received numerous awards. His first book, a novel entitled Paper Bullets, was published in 2001 by the University of Washington Press. His second book, a photographic book entitled Part Asian, 100% Hapa: Portraits by Kip Fulbeck, was published in 2006 by Chronicle Books. It features a foreword by Sean Lennon and an afterword by Paul Spickard. Many of the photographs from this book were featured in a solo show of the same name at the Japanese American National Museum in 2006.

Fulbeck is a Professor of Art and an affiliate faculty in Asian American Studies and Film Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and is a nationally-ranked masters swimmer. He is currently producing a book entitled Permanence: Tattoo Portraits by Kip Fulbeck to be published by Chronicle Books in 2008.

[edit] External links

• http://www.seaweedproductions.com
• article about "The Hapa Project
• kip fulbeck: part asian, 100% hapa at the Japanese American National Museum