Lena Wolff is an interdisciplinary visual artist, craftswoman and activist for democracy; she has been based in the San Francisco Bay Area since the early 1990’s. Wolff’s visual art practice...
Lena Wolff is an interdisciplinary visual artist, craftswoman and activist for democracy; she has been based in the San Francisco Bay Area since the early 1990’s. Wolff’s visual art practice extends out of folk art and quilt-making traditions, and is connected to minimalism, geometric abstraction, Op art, social practice and feminist art traditions. Her broad but interconnected artistic output includes drawing, collage, sculpture, murals, text-based pieces, embroidery, public projects, performance and music. Since the 2016 presidential election, Wolff has generated several new collaborative projects that constructively contribute to public dialog and civic engagement. In 2017 she designed and co-created the ‘Berkeley Stands United Against Hate’ poster with designer Lexi Visco that has since been reproduced 200,000 times for over 10 Bay Area cities. She is also the founder of the punk/pop political choir FUTURE CHORUS. Wolff’s work has been presented in galleries and museums across the United States and she has attended residencies at the de Young Museum (2017) and Kala Art Institute, where she received a Master Artist Award in 2018. Her work is in the public collections of the One Archive, the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Alameda County Arts Commission, the Cleveland Clinic, the University of Iowa Museum and the Zuckerman Museum of Art. Wolff lives with her wife, artist, teacher and illustrator, Miriam Klein Stahl and their daughter in Berkeley, California.