Born in California, Wopo was a Navy brat. She studied art in the 60's at Mills College. She ended up with her unusual name as the result of a tribal initiation by her Indian neighbors where she mispronounced her Miwok name. Woho which meant ‘beautiful woman running through wildflowers’ came out as Wopo ‘old man’. It stuck. She was assisting Christo and Jean Claude install Running Fence in the 70's and they suggested that she, she move to New York. Which she did. She has also completed commissions for the State of New Jersey, the MTA Arts for Transit of New York City, and the New Mexico Art in Public Places Program. She has had one-person exhibitions in New York and Chicago and the Contemporary Public Art in the Bronx exhibit at Lehman College. She was awarded a CAPS Fellow from the New York State Council on the Arts in 1984.
