Jenifer K Wofford is a San Francisco artist and educator whose work investigates hybridity, history, and calamity, often with a humorous bent. She is also 1/3 of the Filipina-American artist trio MOB.
Her work has been presented at venues including SFMOMA, the Asian Art Museum, YBCA, and Southern Exposure (San Francisco), plus BAMPFA, Oakland Museum of California, and San Jose Museum of Art (Bay Area). She has also shown at Asia Society (Houston), Wing Luke Museum (Seattle), DePaul Museum (Chicago), Frieze (Los Angeles), Silverlens (Manila), and Osage (Hong Kong).
Wofford is a 2023 YBCA 100 Honoree and a 2017 recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. Her awards include the Eureka Fellowship and grants from Art Matters, the San Francisco Arts Commission, and the Center for Cultural Innovation. She has been Artist-in-Residence at Lucas Artist Residency (Saratoga), Liguria Study Center (Italy) and KinoKino (Norway).
Wofford teaches in the Fine Arts and Philippine Studies programs of the University of San Francisco. She has also led courses at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Mills, SFAI, California College of the Arts and San Francisco State University. She holds degrees from the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA) and UC Berkeley (MFA).
Born/based in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, Dubai, Malaysia and the Bay Area, Wofford has also lived in Oakland and Prague. A committed and active member of the Bay Area art community, Wofford was Vice President of the Board of Directors of Southern Exposure. She is presently working on three substantial public art commissions in California.
