Joe Biel is a visual artist working primarily in two-dimensional media. He received an MFA in Painting from the University of Michigan and is currently on the faculty at California State University Fullerton. He has gallery affiliations with Goff and Rosenthal in New York and Galerie Kuckei/Kuckei in Berlin. He has been awarded residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE, and at the Ballingllen Foundation in Ballycastle, Ireland. In 2003 he was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation award. He lives and works in Los Angeles.