JP WACKENSTEDT
B. 1979, Lake Havasu, AZ
Lives and works in San Diego, CA
EDUCATION
2003 Bachelor of Arts, Visual Art (Studio), University of California, San Diego, CA
2024 San Diego State University, San Diego, CA (Art 504-Advanced Painting)
STUDIED UNDER
Barbara Kruger, Faith Ringgold, Zoey Frank, Eva Struble
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)
2024 Artwalk Liberty Station, San Diego, CA
2023 Color POP!, Symphony Towers, San Diego, CA (Juried by Maria Mingalone, Executive Director,
Oceanside Museum of Art)
2023 Artwalk Liberty Station, San Diego, CA
2023 Artwalk Little Italy, San Diego, CA
AWARDS
2024 Honorable Mention, La Jolla Athenaeum 32nd Annual Juried Exhibition, La Jolla, CA
2023 Best in Painting, La Jolla Art & Wine Festival
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 (Upcoming) Instructor/Course Creator, Pacific View Arts Center, Encinitas, CA
(Developing Your Artistic Style, Winter Session 1)
2025 (Upcoming) Instructor/Course Creator, Pacific View Arts Center, Encinitas, CA
(Developing Your Artistic Style II, Winter Session 2)