Kip Fulbeck

Award-winning artist, filmmaker, novelist, and slam poet Kip Fulbeck is keynote speaker for Ohio State's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Kip Fulbeck is recognized as the world's premiere artist exploring Hapa identity (belonging to people of mixed racial heritage with partial roots in Asian and/or Pacific Islander ancestry).

Fulbeck has exhibited his work in over 20 countries and throughout the U.S., including at the Whitney Biennial (Whitney Museum of American Art), Singapore International Film Festival, and Honolulu Contemporary Arts Museum. His unique combination of stand-up comedy, political activism, and inspiring personal stories explores multiraciality and personal identity using a hilarious array of popular movie and television sources.

The director of the landmark video Banana Split and author of Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography (University of Washington Press, 2001), Fulbeck is the inaugural recipient of the Hapa Issues Forum Prism Award for the Arts. He is professor of art at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Presented by Asian American Student Services, Ohio State's Multicultural Center.