“Versatile in performance, painting, sculpture, and film, Wofford’s attentive and vibrant art bears an imperative to look, listen and feel stories too easily glossed over.” – juror Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, SFMOMA.

“Jenifer Wofford’s interdisciplinary practice synthesizes painting and performance, harnessing popular culture, exuberant color, and bold graphic design. Through strategies of community and comedy, she makes powerful works that disrupt dominant narratives and deserve to be seen in all of their playful irreverence and conceptual complexity.” – juror Victoria Sung, Phyllis C. Wattis Senior Curator, BAMPFA.

Jenifer K Wofford (b. San Francisco, CA) is a San Francisco artist and educator whose work is informed by hybridity, history, and calamity. She is also 1/3 of the Filipina-American artist trio MOB.

She has presented her projects at venues including SFMOMA, the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco), Asia Society (Houston), Wing Luke Museum (Seattle), Frieze (Los Angeles), Silverlens (Manila/NY), and Osage (Hong Kong). She teaches in the Fine Arts and Philippine Studies programs of the University of San Francisco and holds degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA) and UC Berkeley (MFA). Wofford lived in Hong Kong, Dubai, and Kuala Lumpur when young, returning to California as a teen.

Wofford’s work is often informed by moments of rupture; of deep tectonic shifts in culture. A deeply felt sense of curiosity, irony, and tragicomedy tends to shape her approaches. Having been raised interculturally has shaped an interdisciplinary practice where drawing, painting, performance, video, digital, and print intersect. The constants in her work include strong color, line, and pattern, a crisp visual approach, and a healthy appreciation for the absurd. The legibility of illustration and the appeal of popular culture motifs are often invoked to smooth the pathway into occasionally difficult terrain.