Since his early work with the Video Venice Collective in the 1970s, Ulysses S. Jenkins has been creating powerful work that provokes and boldly ask questions regarding of race, history and images.
As University of Chicago Professor Jacqueline Stewart points out Jenkins’ work “critiques mass media representation (particularly of African American men) while exploring historical and spiritual resistances to state power and structural racism”. And he also as well “blends conceptual complexity and political urgency with earthy humor as he explores the media’s portrayal of African Americans”.
Currently a Professor of Art at the Claire Trevor School of Art at the University of…
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