Jordan Wolfson

Jordan Wolfson was born and raised in Los Angeles and graduated with an MFA from
Yale School of Art in 1991.
“I fell in love with painting as a young man when I realized that painting isn’t about
making a picture; painting is about exploring life…Over the years, as life inevitably
serves up its challenges and obstacles, this of course showed up in my painting as well.
And I needed to ask myself, facing the difficulties and sacrifices — what is this for?
What is this truly for? What is the fundamental truth of this activity, painting – and how
does it serve? Not only in my personal life, but in our larger culture and time, and what it
means to be human.”
In his recurring explorations of form, space, and light, Jordan has been investigating the
relationships between perception, mark, and Consciousness. This has led to his
experience of painting as a life-practice and means for fundamental understanding.
Exhibiting both nationally and internationally, Jordan’s work is represented in permanent
collections worldwide, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the James T. Dyke
Collection and the Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art. Jordan has received
numerous awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the Ingram Merrill
Foundation Grant and a Purchase Award from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters; he was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA and the
Ballinglen Art Foundation in Ireland.
Jordan currently lives in Longmont, Colorado.