John Philip Wagner – Artist Background
Education
BFA University of the Arts (Phila College of Art 1965)
MFA Maryland Institute of Art 1967
…
Visiting Artist / Academic Positions
1965-1967 Assistant Professor, Sculpture – Maryland Institute of Art
1965-1967 Drawing Instructor, Maryland Institute of Art
1970-1971 Artist in Residence – Schools of Las Vegas, New Mexico
1973 Visiting Artist in Schools program – Abiqui, New Mexico
1975 Guest Artist – Institute of American Indian Art, Santa Fe, NM
1976 Guest Artist, Santa Monica Schools, Malibu, California
1976 Professor of Drawing, Free Arts Forum, Santa Fe, NM
1982 Guest Artist – Mount Wheeler School, Taos, NM
1985 Guest Artist – Summer in the Parks, Philadelphia, PA
1986 Drawing Instructor – Painters Galleries Southhamton, PA
…
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
1969 The Painters Gallery – Santa Fe, NM
1970 The Court Gallery, Las Vegas, NM
1971 Jamison Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
1972 Jamison Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
1973 Jamison Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
1974 Jamison Galleries, Houston, Texas
1975 Martin Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1975 The Discovery Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1976 Hall Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
1982 The West Gallery, Taos, NM
1986 Utopia Parkway Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1987 Peddler’s Wagon, Cape May, NJ
1996 The Sculpture Garden – New Hope, PA
2013 Fremont Center for the Arts, Canon City, CO
2019 Canon Framing – Canon City, CO
…
Selected Group Exhibitions
1967 Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
1969 Society of Illustrators, New York, NY
1970-1973 New Mexico Museum of Fine Art, Biennial – Santa Fe, NM
1975 New Mexico Museum of Fine Art, “Mgic Realism” – Santa Fe, NM
1976 Anhault Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 University of New Mexico – La Galeria, Alburquerque, NM
1982 Stables Gallery, Taos Art Association – Taos, NM
1985 “Refuse Show”, Philadelphia Convention Center – Philadelphia, PA
2012 Fremont Center for the Arts, Canon City, CO
2014 “Day of the Dead” Fremont Center for the Arts, Canon City, CO
2018 REM Gallery, Canon City, CO
2018 A Florence Gallery, Florence, CO
2019 Worldwide Treasures, Florence, CO
…
Live Performance “Wagner Marionettes”
2001 Pennsylvania Academy of Music, Ballroom during “The Nutcracker”Philadelphia, PA
2002 The Italian Festival – Mercer Park, NJ
2003 The Kimall Center, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Pennsylvania Academy of Music, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
…
Publications
1967 “Logos” Underground Newspaper, Montreal, Canada
1968 “Evergreen Review”, Grove Press, New York NY
1968 “Avant Garde Magazine” New Your, NY
1968 “Spokesman for Freedom” Crowell Collier Press, NY
1969 “Cherokee Chief” Crowell Collier Press, NY
1970 “Flights by David A. Leeminef – Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
1974 “Black Range Tales” Ballantine Books
1974 “Wipe Your Face, You Just Swallowed My Soul” Hugh Prather, Doubleday
1970 New Mexico Magazine, March/April, May/June
1974 “Southwest Art” – A Daring Artist by Hugh Prather with Poetry
1973 “Southwestern Art” Austin, TX
1975 “Arizona Living” Scottsdale, AZ
1997 “Milk & Honey” Art Cards of Gods and Goddesses of Eqypt
2007 “Ascended Masters” Oracle Cards by Doreen Virtue. Hay House, Inc. “Thoth”, “Horus”
2019 “Journey to Spiritland” Southwest Paintings by John Philip Wagner, Spiritland Publishing
…
Public Collections
Oklahoma City Center for the Arts, Oklahoma City, OK
New Mexico Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe NM
Pikes Peak Historic Railway Foundation – Trolley Museum, Colorado Springs, CO
“Consolidation” (2-8-0) 8 ft. CO
“Frontier City” HO Train Layout
“Fremont Center for the Arts
“Madonna and Child in Venice”
“Saint Christopher”
Film Credits
“The Man Who Fell to the Earth” David Bowie, 1976 – 2 paintings “The Sybil” and “Bigfoot”