Ulysses Belz was born in Mainz, Germany on March 12, 1958. After completing an apprenticeship in fine bookbinding at the "Werkstatt Schoy" in Essen, graduating with a bookbinding diploma in 1979, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1980 to 1984 under Jean-Marie Granier and Pierre Courtin.

After leaving Paris in 1984, he opened a gallery in the old centre of Athens, at the Street of the Tripods (Odos Tripodon 18), where he worked from 1984 to 1989. The Goethe-Institut Athens presented his work in 1987 in a first solo exhibition. After returning to Germany, exhibitions followed in Frankfurt and Berlin.

Following his move to Madrid in 1992, he lived in Spain until 1999, with exhibitions at Gallery Seiquer (ARCO Art Fair, Madrid) and the Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid. The discovery of the Spanish painting tradition through its originals was the formative experience of those years.

In 2000, Ulysses Belz produced his most significant print work in two volumes (Die Ewigkeit ist ein spielendes Kind auf dem Thron) together with German scientists, media experts and the poet Botho Strauss. This "paper monument for the Pre-Socratics" was distributed through Galerie Druck & Buch, Tübingen / Vienna, and subsequently acquired by major institutional collections, including the library of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the Butler Library of Columbia University, New York.

From 2000 to 2004, Belz lived in Riga, Latvia. His first museum exhibition was shown in 2002 at the Latvian Museum of Foreign Art. With this exhibition began a ten-year collaboration with the renowned art collector and dealer Dr. Alfred Gunzenhauser, Munich. The Lenbachhaus, Munich acquired two oil paintings for its permanent collection. The Museum Gunzenhauser, Chemnitz, inaugurated in 2005, also holds works by Ulysses Belz.

In 2004, Ulysses Belz returned to Paris, where he lived and worked in his own studio at Rue Pajol 41 until 2010. The collaboration with the renowned scholar and philosopher of mind Joëlle Proust (ENS / CNRS) confirmed Belz on his path toward a new "language" in painting. The first exhibition of "Metacognitive Painting" was inaugurated in October 2010 by Joëlle Proust at Galerie Immanence, Paris.

In 2010, Ulysses Belz moved back to Germany and has since been living in Burgrain, Bavaria. New collaborations exist with Senger Fine Art, Bamberg and Galerie Thomas Hühsam, Offenbach.