Jenifer K Wofford
Bio
Jenifer K Wofford is a San Francisco-based artist and educator. She is also 1/3 of the Filipina-American artist trio Mail Order Brides/M.O.B.
Her work has been exhibited in the Bay Area at the Berkeley Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Southern Exposure, and Kearny Street Workshop. Further afield, she has shown at New Image Art (Los Angeles), Wing Luke Museum (Seattle), DePaul Museum (Chicago), Manila Contemporary (Philippines), VWFA (Malaysia), and Osage Gallery (Hong Kong).
Wofford’s awards include the Eureka Fellowship, the Murphy Fellowship, and grants from the Art Matters Foundation, the Center for Cultural Innovation, UCIRA, and the Pacific Rim Research Program. She has also been artist-in-residence at The Living Room, Philippines, Liguria Study Center, Italy and KinoKino, Norway.
A well-known arts educator, Wofford is part-time faculty in Fine Arts and Philippine Studies at the University
of San Francisco. She also teaches at UC Berkeley, San Francisco Art Institute, 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 in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, Dubai, Malaysia and California, Wofford has also lived in Oakland, New Orleans and Prague. She currently lives and works in San Francisco.