Tulis was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. After a couple of years of college, he joined the United States Army. After the army he put all of his time and efforts into his art. In 1985 he was able to open his first studio and that same year had his first exhibition.[citation needed] He lives a very simple life.[1]
In 1997, Tulis was Artist in Residence at Pouch Cove Foundation, a self-sustaining, not for profit art retreat near St. John's, Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.[citation needed]
Group exhibitions
Tulis exhibited in the experimental art space Neo-Post-Now Gallery in Manitowoc, Wisconsin from 1992 to 1997.[2]
So Atlanta: Artists Respond to the Contemporary City, 2004. With work by Tulis, Karen Rich Beall, Sarah Doughrety, Samm Hill, Ron Jude, Ohm Phanphiroj and others. Curated by Felicia Feaster and Helena Reckitt.[5]
"Two hundred and fifty images laid before me and I was enthralled. They were perfect. I wished I used more of them. The photography brought a sense of presence, of immediacy and of realism to a space that I knew would soon be awash in metaphors within a visionary frame." – Steven Guynup[11]
