Artist Jeffrey Nemenzo was born in the San Francisco Bay Area where he attended both the University of San Francisco and the Academy of Art University. After earning his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, he focused the following few years on developing his portfolio by exploring different cultures and subcultures. He started with exploring his own Filipino heritage and then venturing into other ethnic cultures and lifestyles. For the past few years, Jeffrey has incorporated urban influences in his paintings.

From hip hop music, to graffiti art, to it’s fashion and sneaker culture. Music also has been an important influence in his artwork and cites musicians John Coltrane, Kanye West, Q-Tip, Led Zepplin, M Ward and Radiohead as muses in his iPod. “Music always gets me into a certain mindset…an attitude that comes out in my paintings. I have to listen to the right music for the right painting.”

His other sources of inspiration are diverse such as Gustav Klimt, John Singer Sergent, Japanese pop culture, Hatch Show Print, Kanye West’s blog and photographer Roy DeCarava. The result is a creation of his own artistic style that is a combination of iconic, figurative, urban, collages with touches of graphic elements.

Jeffrey’s work has shown at many places throughout the Bay Area such as 111 Minna Gallery, PRO Arts gallery, Double Punch, Mezzanine and Moscone Convention Center as well as published work in CMYK and Artweek magazine.