Jenifer K Wofford
Jenifer K Wofford is a Filipina-American artist and arts educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Wofford was born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia, returning to California as a teenager. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and her MFA from UC Berkeley.
Her work has been exhibited in the Bay Area at the Berkeley Art Museum, Richmond Art Center, a.o.v, Babilonia 1808, Southern Exposure, and Kearny Street Workshop, nationally at New Image Art (Los Angeles), Nora Eccles Harrison Museum (Salt Lake City), thirtynine hotel (Honolulu), and internationally at Future Prospects (Philippines), and Galerie Blanche (France).
Since 1995 she has been 1/3 of the manic, brilliant, highly delusional artist trio known as the Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. They have collaborated on a variety of shenanigans for venues including Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the DeYoung Museum, Southern Exposure, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, the National Asian American Film Festival, The San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and the McColl Center for Visual Art.
Wofford's recent awards include grants from the Art Matters Foundation, UCIRA, the Pacific Rim Research Program, as well as a Murphy Fellowship. She has also undertaken artist residencies at The Living Room, Philippines, Skidmore College, New York, and Chateau de la Napoule, France.
Wofford has worked in arts education since 1993, via such organizations and schools as the University of San Francisco, UC Berkeley, California College of the Arts, SFMoMA, Southern Exposure, Casa De Los Jovenes, Leadership High School, b.a.y. fund, City Arts and Tech High School, and Out Of Site.
