A Fusion of Forms: Curators Erin Christovale and Meg Onli Discuss Their Retrospective of Ulysses Jenkins by Erin Christovale and Meg Onli Over the past fifty years, Ulysses Jenkins, an artist born and based in Los Angeles, has produced a remarkable body of work that interrogates constructions of race and gender as they relate to…

The Video Provocations of Ulysses Jenkins by Tiana Reid Ulysses Jenkins is an artist of extremes, an innovator who has probed the limits of a wide range of aesthetic modes for over five decades. Though he’s best known for his video art, a medium whose conventions he has been instrumental in defining since the 1970s,…

Highlights of 2021 by Sky Hopinka The work of Ulysses Jenkins was a revelation. Across the videos and performances featured in this career retrospective—among them Two-Zone Transfer, 1979, and Inconsequential Doggerel, 1981—one found a constellation of themes that remain relevant some fifty years on. With nimble curiosity, Jenkins confronts the hegemonies of race, gender, and…

Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation Wire Magazine, December 2021 Televisions used to be heavy, with physical depth and heft. Unlike contemporary flat screens, these old CRT monitors had an intense spatial quality, the solidity and stolidity of an immovable force. In Without Your Interpretation, the first retrospective exhibition of multimedia artist Ulysses Jenkins, one first…

Confronting Mass Media: A veteran Black artist receives his first retrospective By James Hannaham October 8, 2021 When you’re “young, gifted, and Black,” as Nina Simone famously sang, “there’s a world waiting for you.” But if you’re old, overlooked, and Black, like Los Angeles video artist Ulysses Jenkins, you might have to wait a while…

Modern Art Notes podcast, Episode No. 518 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Hugo McCloud and curator Erin Christovale. McCloud’s work is on view in “In Relation to Power: Politically Engaged Works from the Collection” at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, which was curated by Marshall Price and Adria Gunter,…

The best fall exhibits in Philadelphia art museums By Thomas Hine Usually you go to a museum to see the work of multiple artists. Increasingly, though, as mega retrospectives swell and metastasize, you need to go to multiple museums to see the work of one artist. This season brings what is likely the biggest such…

ICA debuts first major retrospective of pioneering video artist by Brandon Baker It took five decades, but Ulysses Jenkins finally has his first major retrospective. “It’s unbelievable and frustrating,” says Meg Onli. But also, exciting. Onli, the Andrea B. Laporte Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, co-curated the exhibit for the ICA alongside…