 For his 1981 solo exhibition at the newly opened Ulrike Kantor Gallery, he showed neo-expressionist “meat paintings” alongside earlier works, which led to his becoming the 49th recipient of the Modern and Contemporary Arts Council’s Young Talent Purchase Award, which carried a purse of $3000 and an exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.Before his death at age 32, Wilf had already had four solo exhibitions in commercial galleries, as well as solo exhibitions at LACE and Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary Art (LAICA).His work had been included in dozens of group shows such as the 1975 Whitney Biennial, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Long Beach Museum of Art, Mandeville Art Gallery, Oakland Museum, as well as commercial galleries