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 and received numerous awards, and he has been featured on CNN, MTV, and PBS. Fulbeck's films include Banana Split, Some Questions for 28 Kisses, and Lilo & Me. His first book, a fictional autobiography entitled Paper Bullets was published in 2001 by the University of Washington Press. His second book, a photographic book entitled Part Asian, 100% Hapa 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, and they are currently touring nationally.

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