Jenifer Wofford

Jenifer Wofford is a multidisciplinary visual artist who shows her work both nationally and internationally. She has presented projects at Bay Area venues including SFMOMA, the Asian Art Museum, YBCA, the de Young Museum and the San Jose Museum of Art. She has also exhibited at Silverlens Gallery (Manila), Frieze (Los Angeles), Asia Society (Houston), and Wing Luke Museum (Seattle).

Wofford was a 2023 YBCA 100 honoree and the recipient of a 2017 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant.  In 2020 she was awarded the Asian Art Museum’s first public art commission for their new Lui Hyde Street Art Wall.

A committed and active member of the Bay Area art community, Wofford recently concluded her duties as Vice President of the Board of Directors of Southern Exposure. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a Master of Fine Arts from UC Berkeley.

• Visual art
• Philippine studies
• Global contemporary art
• Public art

• Illustration and comics
• Contemporary art practice
• Art in the community
• Art of the Philippine diaspora
• Non-western art
• Global contemporary art

• UC Berkeley, MFA in Art Practice
• San Francisco Art Institute, BFA in Sculpture

• Holt Visiting Artist, Stanford University
• Adjunct Faculty in Art Practice, UC Berkeley
• Adjunct Professor in Fine Arts, San Francisco State University
• Visiting Faculty (Li Shen Endowed Artist in Residence), Mills College

• YBCA 100 Honoree, 2023
• Public Art Commission, Lui Hyde Street Art Wall, Asian Art Museum, 2020
• Individual Artist Commission grant, San Francisco Arts Commission, 2019
• Painters and Sculptors Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation, 2017
• Investing In Artists Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, 2012

• Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
• Silverlens Galleries, Manila, Philippines
• Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
• Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA
• Manila Biennale, Manila, Philippines