Background
Jack Fulton was born on June 30, 1939 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Jack Fulton was born on June 30, 1939 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Fulton is a self- taught photographer.
Jack Fulton became a photography professor at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) in 1969 and served intermittently as Chairman of the Photography department for over twenty of his forty-five-year teaching career. Utilizing his broad range of interests and experience in the varied fields of architecture, design, and films, he in the 1960s made the SFAI photography department an influential and important program well ahead of its time, redesigning the laboratory through a federal grant and establishing the state-of-the-art digital environment with support from the Epson printer company.
Retired from teaching since 2013, Jack Fulton continues to create new work in photography, publications, film and video from his home in Marin County, California.
Fulton’s photographic work has been recognized in more than thirty solo exhibitions and more than fifty group exhibitions in museums and galleries nationwide and abroad.
Jack Fulton has received numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Marin Arts Council, and a publishing grant from the Nevada Arts Commission. In 1985, he was awarded the Eugene Atget Award by Air France and his work was added in the permanent collection National Museum of Modern Art in Paris and Bibliothèque Nationale.
Jack Fulton was awarded lectureships at the University of California, Santa Cruz (for 20 years), the University of California, San Diego, and Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts, Philadelphia).
