BIO:

Ulric Joseph was born in San Fernando, Trinidad, 1971. He came to the US in 1995, on a full scholarship, to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art. There he gained a BFA in painting and a MA in digital Art.
In 2001 Ulric was offered a position as an academic advisor/adjunct professor at MICA. After working in this capacity for six years, and starting a successful abroad program in Kingston, Jamaica, he and his family had to leave the US due to immigration reasons.His next stop was London, England. He had siblings living there and felt as though this would be a place to further his art career. In London he started his own web-design business and secured a lucrative contract to redesign his country’s UK embassy website. It is while he was in London he linked up with an art organization called NOVA arts. Through art they helped house London’s homeless. Ulric developed a close relationship with this organization and went on to show at their London Bridge gallery. He was planning for a show in Liverpool when his life took another turn. His wife left him with his two
daughters.

Soon, with two daughters in tow, Ulric relocated to Trinidad. He spent three years in Trinidad before he returned to the US as a Full-Time professor. MICA was doing a search for a First Year Experience professor and he applied and got the job. His time in Trinidad was memorable because it allowed him to reconnect with his cultural roots, and started him down his present painting path. After 9 years of being a Full-Time professor at MICA, Ulric chose to make a move back to self-employment. Now remarried and living on the North Side of Pittsburgh, he makes art and runs a company called ShadoBeni. This is a small Trinidadian Vegan Restaurant.
During his time as a full-time professor at MICA Ulric became involved in community work with organizations that worked with inner city kids, in Baltimore. When Ulric relocated to the North Side, he kept up his community work and has been working with an organization that does outreach in the Northview Heights neighborhood. This organization gets funding from the Buhl foundation and from 2019 – 2021, Ulric has worked with the kids in the summer. It began with them making masks with the kids. During the pandemic he created digital drawings of African American heroes for the kids to color which were well received. Through all the ups and downs that life has brought, Ulric has continued to produce fine art as well as use it as a way to engage with the community.