JP WACKENSTEDT
Lives and works in San Diego, CA and Logan, Utah
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
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
2025 Instructor/Course Creator, Developing Your Artistic Style, Winter Session 1, Solana Beach, CA