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Jamie Wolfe (b. Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is an animation director and artist whose work spans experimental animation, drawing, painting, and comics. Her practice centers on avant-garde approaches to character and narrative, exploring unconventional forms, movement, and storytelling. Hand-drawn lines and bold palettes collide to depict frenetic bodies in elastic space and time, exploring the tension between chaos and control.

Wolfe’s films have been screened internationally at festivals and galleries, including the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Anifilm International Animation Festival, and ANIMAFEST Zagreb. She has created work for Adult Swim, Apple, The New York Times, and Giphy, and has collaborated with musicians such as the Rolling Stones, King Krule, Local Natives, and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. Her work has been featured in publications like It’s Nice That, Cartoon Brew, Vice, and Creative Review.

Before joining Carnegie Mellon University, Wolfe lived in Los Angeles, where she served as a visiting faculty member in the Experimental Animation Program at CalArts and taught as a visiting lecturer in the Design Media Arts Department at UCLA. She earned her MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts in 2018.