John Taylor Wagner

B. 1985 in Maitland, Florida USA, currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

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Solo Exhibitions

 

2024

A Tale of Trouble and Return, Foothills Art Center. Golden, Colorado

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2024

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery - Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA

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2023

Edward Hopper House Museum - Nyack, NY

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Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery - Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA

 

Bankside Gallery: Rising Artists, London

Shortlisted Artist for Jackson's Painting Prize

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2022

LAA National Fine Art Show, Guest Juror: Eriq Hochuli, Curator at Foothills Art Center Golden, Colorado

Awards: "Best in Show" ('Young Love') and "Artistic Achievement" ('The Diver').

 

2021

Visual Arts Alliance 37th Annual Juried Exhibition, Guest Juror: Dr. Harry Cooper, Senior Curator & Head of Modern Art at The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.  

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London Paint Club Emerging Artists Group exhibition: Together Through Painting

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Residencies and Programs

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2023

W.A.R.P. Artist Residency by Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles CA. 

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Quarantine: Art Intensive. Menorca, Spain. Artist Mentors: Emilio Villalba, Nicolas Uribe, Henrik Aa. Uldalen, Nadezda, Jeremy Mann, and Vincent Desiderio. 

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Publications

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2022

Divide Magazine, Issue: 04, Summer 2022. Interviewed by Ziquita Riberdy, Editor and Curator.

Teaching

 

2016 - 2023

Instructor: Fundamentals of Drawing, Drawing ii, Fundamentals of Oil Painting, Oil Painting ii.

Boulder Art School, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

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Education

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2006 - 2010

University of Montana, Missoula. Anthropology, Archaeology

 

2015 - 2016

Boulder School of Fine Art. Classical Realism Drawing 

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