JP WACKENSTEDT
Lives and works in Logan, Utah and San Diego, California
EDUCATION
2028 (Expected) Master of Fine Arts, Painting/Drawing, Utah State University, Logan, UT
2003 Bachelor of Arts, Visual Art (Studio), University of California, San Diego, CA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2023 Little Pink Houses, City of Encinitas Cultural Division, Encinitas, CA
GROUP
2026 The Collective Self, Projects Gallery, Utah State University, Logan, UT
2025 USU Annual Undergraduate & Graduate Exhibition, Tippetts & Eccles Gallery, Chase Fine Arts Center, Logan, UT
2024 The Next Art Show, Covet Gallery, Oceanside, CA
2024 La Jolla Athenaeum 32nd Annual Juried Exhibition, La Jolla, CA, Honorable Mention (Juried by Armando Pulido, Curatorial Assistant,
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art)
2024 More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA (Juried by John Seed, Aleah Chapin and
Timothy Robert Smith)
2023 Color POP!, Symphony Towers, San Diego, CA (Juried by Maria Mingalone, Executive Director, Oceanside Museum of Art)
AWARDS
2024 Honorable Mention, La Jolla Athenaeum 32nd Annual Juried Exhibition, La Jolla, CA
2023 Business of Art Scholarship, San Diego Visual Arts Network
ARTISTS TALKS
2023 Art Night Encinitas, Little Pink Houses, Encinitas Community Center, Encinitas, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 Hoa Quach, “San Diego Moms: How Art Prepared this San Diegan for Parenthood,” Times of San Diego, April 22, 2023.
MEDIA APPEARANCES
2024 Evan Noorani, “Artwalk Liberty Station Preview,” CBS 8 San Diego, San Diego, CA, July 30, 2024
2023 Megan Tevrizian, “Mission Fed Artwalk in Little Italy/JP Wackenstedt, Scholarship Winner,” NBC San Diego, San Diego, CA, April 28, 2024
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
(Upcoming) Instructor of Record, Utah State University, Logan, UT, ART 2200, Painting I, Fall 2026
(Upcoming) Teaching Assistant, Utah State University, Logan, UT, ART 1020 Drawing I, Fall 2026
(Upcoming) Teaching Assistant, Utah State University, Logan, UT, ART 1120 2D Design, Fall 2026
2026 Instructor of Record, Utah State University, Logan, UT, ART 2200, Painting I, Spring 2026
2025 Teaching Assistant, Utah State University, Logan, UT, ART 2200, Painting I, Fall 2025