About

Known credits:
24
Birthday:
1946-01-01
Place of birth:
Los Angeles, California, USA
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Ulysses Jenkins

Overview

Ulysses Jenkins was born in 1946, in Los Angeles, California. He studied painting and drawing as an undergraduate at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and later received an MFA in intermedia-video and performance art from Otis Art Institute (now known as Otis College of Art and Design). Prior to enrolling at Otis, from 1970-72 Jenkins worked with the Los Angeles County Probation Department, teaching art to nondelinquent youth, and in 1989, taught video through a gang-intervention program in Oakland. Jenkins is the recipient of numerous awards, including individual artist fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, and named first place in experimental video by the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1990 and 92. His work has been included in major exhibitions, including America is Hard to See (2015), at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Now Dig this!: Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 (2012), at the Hammer Museum, and California Video (2008) at the Getty Center. Jenkins is currently Associate Professor in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts and an affiliate professor in the African American Studies program at the University of California, Irvine.

Known for

Acting
2007 Notions of Freedom Actor N/A
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1983 Dream City Actor N/A
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1978 Mass of Images Actor N/A
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Directing
2007 Notions of Freedom Directing Director N/A
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2006 Planet X Directing Director N/A
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1994 Secrecy: Help Me to Understand Directing Director N/A
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1991 The Nomadics Directing Director N/A
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1990 Mutual Native Duplex Directing Director N/A
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1989 Self Divination Directing Director N/A
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1985 Peace and Anwar Sadat Directing Director N/A
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1983 Without Your Interpretation Directing Director N/A
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1983 Cake Walk Directing Director 59
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1983 Z-Grass Directing Director N/A
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1983 Dream City Directing Director N/A
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1981 Inconsequential Doggereal Directing Director N/A
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1980 Remnants of the Watts Festival Directing Director N/A
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1979 Two-Zone Transfer Directing Director N/A
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1978 Mass of Images Directing Director N/A
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1978 King David Directing Director N/A
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In The Midnight Hour Directing Director N/A
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Writing
1983 Dream City Writing Writer N/A
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Production
1983 Dream City Production Producer N/A
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Camera
1983 Dream City Camera Camera Operator N/A
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Editing
1983 Dream City Editing Editor N/A
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