Jim Woodfill

James Woodfill is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Kansas City, MO. His artworks regularly blur boundaries in their execution, with installations and individual works bridging the fields of sculpture, painting, design, and public art. His work in the public realm has extended into education and curatorial projects, writings and numerous urban planning projects and studies.

Woodfill’s paintings, sculptures and gallery installations have been widely recognized, including reviews in Art In America, Art Papers, The New Art Examiner, Hyperallergic, Art Slant and Sculpture Magazine. He is a 2000 Charlotte Street Artist Award Fellow.

Woodfill’s public art projects includes two Kansas City One Percent for the Arts commissions and numerous private and public/private commissions. He was lead artist for an NEA Our Town Grant funded project, “West Bottoms Reborn,” a multi-faceted urban planning project in collaboration with Kansas City Design Center. His public works have received numerous awards from the American Institute of Architects, and they have been included twice in the Americans for the Arts/Public Art Network annual “Year in Review.” His work has also been recognized by I.D. Magazine and by Art in America in their “Public Art in Review.”

Woodfill maintains a studio practice in the West Bottoms of Kansas City, MO.