Joe Biel

Pollock-Krasner Foundation- Grant Award recipient
Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Award

Pollock-Krasner Foundation- Grant Award recipient
Featured Artist, New American Paintings: 2003 West Coast Edition

Residency, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha
Artist in Residence, Multnomah County, OR

Oregon Arts Commission Grant for a specific project proposal

Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant for an exhibit at the Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Portland, OR

Merit Award, Bradley National Works on Paper, Bradley University, Peoria, IL

Charles Cinnamon Award, Grant given by the NFAA to assist artists with a specific project

Ned Dybvig Award for an outstanding first year graduate student, Stipend, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Fellowship (one of thirty internationally), Yale Summer School of Music and Art, two month intensive program in all media. Program included seminars and workshops with visiting artists

Finalist (one of five nationally), National Arts Recognition and Talent Search competition sponsored by the NFAA, Stipend. Competition included seminars, interviews and works on site, Miami Finalist, National Presidential Scholarship Competition, for academic excellence

Short Stack, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

Sentry – Works by Joe Biel, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA

Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle

Lexicon, Nettie Horn Gallery, London, England
Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

18th Street Arts center, Santa Monica, CA

Goff + Rosenthal Gallery, New York
Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin

New Work, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
Captain ILL, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles

Joe Biel: Drawings, Mixture Gallery, Houston, TX
Joe Biel: Works on Paper, Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin
Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, Oregon

Small Graphite Drawings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
Post Gallery, Los Angeles
Works on Paper, Galerie Katia Rid, Munich, Germany

New Works on Paper, Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles
Fayerweather Gallery, installation, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Mark Woolley Gallery, installation, Portland, OR
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, installation, Omaha

Greg Kucera Gallery, Installation with Richard Kraft, Seattle

Draft of a Landscape, installation, The Art Gym, Marylhurst College, Portland, OR

Study for a Book, installation, Anderson Gallery, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
Yellowman Actions 1, 2, and 3, live performance pieces, Portland, OR

House of Cards, outdoor installation, May 1, 1997, Portland, OR
Quartersaw Gallery, installation, Portland, OR

Fragments from a German Requiem, group exhibition, Gallery 299, Portland State University, OR
Traces through an Ash Board, installation, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Quartersaw Gallery, installation, Portland, OR

With a Variable Key, installation, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Between Spectacle and Silence: The Holocaust in Contemporary Photography, installation, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
From Darkness to Darkness, installation, The Light Factory, Charlotte
Work by J. Biel and R. Kraft, Savannah College of Art and Design

Metropolitan Arts Commission Space, installation, Portland, OR

Imperfect Crystal, Moskowitz Bayse Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

TeleGen. Kunst und Fernsehen, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

TeleGen. Kunst und Fernsehen, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Hearsay, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA

Choice Cuts, Mark Wooley Gallery, Portland, OR
Hoge Horizon, Bruegelland, vroeg 21ste eeuw, Stedelijk Museum Wuyts-Van Campen en Baron Caroly, Lier, Belgium
In 2040….., JAUS, Los Angeles, CA

PLURAL, WW Gallery, London
Tierstücke der Sammlung SØR Rusche Oelde/Berlin, Museum Abtei Liesborn, Wadersloh
Drafted, Schema Projects, New York City, NY

New Prints 2012/Summer, International Print Center New York, New York City, NY
Alptraum, Green Papaya Art Projects, Quezon City
Alptraum, Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, Johannesburg,

ALPTRAUM, Blank Projects, Cape Town
ALPTRAUM, The Company. Los Angeles, CA
ALPTRAUM, Washington D.C., London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Kapstadt, Projektraum Deutscher Künstlerbund, Berlin
Embodying, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta

Exquisite Corpse, Cream Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
MADE IN U.S.A., Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Paper!Awesome, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA

Back To The Drawing Board: A New Look At Contemporary Drawing, Arin Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Backyard Funerals, Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Drawn/Draft/Depict, IVC Art Gallery, Irvine Valley College, Irvine, USA

Looky See, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
The Unruly and the Humorous, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
The Clearing, Nettie Horn Gallery, London
Ashes for Breakfast, Goff and Rosenthal Gallery, New York

The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
Weltempfänger, 10 Jahre Galerie der Gegenwart, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
On Death and Drawing, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Rogue Wave, L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
It figures, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

The Square Root of Drawing, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, Irland
First Bienal de las Americas, Tijuana, Mexiko

Paradise Lost, Goff + Rosenthal Gallery, New York City, NY
The Manifesto Show, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
Erotic Drawing Part 2, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Erotic Drawing Part 1, Diverseworks, Houston, TX

Mark Woolley Gallery, Portland, OR
Drawn Fictions, The Art Gym, Marylhurst, OR

Not Always the Same Part One, Hammer/Sidi Gallery, London, England
Not Always the Same Part Two, Mjellby Art Center, Halmstad, Sweden

Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Works on Paper, Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Relative Objects, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
What a painting can do, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

Merit Award, Bradley National Works on Paper, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
Small Works Exhibition, Loyola University, New Orleans
Clemson National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Clemson University, SC
SODARCO Internationally juried Exhibition, Sodarco Gallery, Montreal