Paul Wackers received his MFA from San Francisco Art Institute and BFA fro Corcoran College Art and Design in Washington, D.C. His solo exhibitions include Narwhal Projects (Toronto, ON) Alice gallery (Brussels, Belgium), Eleanor Harwood Gallery( San Francisco, CA) and Morgan Lehman gallery (New York, NY). His work is in the MIMA Museum (Brussels, BE) and many prominent private and public collections, including Chevron Corperation, Fidelity Investments and the Ellie Mae Corporate Collection. He also installed a large public mural on the James Hotel in New York City.

He received the Tournesol Painting Prize in 2008 with an awarded residency at the Headlands Center of the Arts, the NKDale residency in Sunfjord, Norway, an artist residency at the Brydcliffe Colony in Woodstock, NY and the watershed Center of Ceramic Arts, in Portland, ME.