Joey Archuleta was born in Rawlins, WY, and moved to New York in the summer of 2002. He has attended programs of study at the Academy of Realist Art, in Seattle, the Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts, in Chicago, and the summer drawing intensive offered by the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture. In 1998 he traveled to London to meet with Euan Uglow for an advisory critique.

As an employee in the Department of Visitor Services at The Museum of The Art Institute of Chicago, Joey undertook a self-directed course of study, whereby he investigated relationships between artists of different periods for indications of a direction his own art might take.

The painter considers Subway Writing one of the most significant art forms produced, and the Museum inquiry provided an insight into the role street art might take in a figurative art based as much on Seurat and Cezanne as more contemporary sensibilities. Archuleta incorporates elements from Subway Writing into nearly wall-size portraits and still lifes in a St. Marks studio, elements catalogued walking through city neighborhoods.

If Art History provides a blueprint for an artist's creative development, this painter has found that, for him, individuality is the material used in assembling the structure: "If I have any understanding of what it is I do at all, it is that 'the art' is the filter through which interpretations pass on the way to becoming physically realized, and that this filter is the Self. So art is an alternate version of who you are."

Joey also participated in the 650 Madison Avenue Exhibition Project curated by Suzanne Randolph Fine Arts. He was selected to participate in the "Abstraction v2.0" exhibition at Core New Art Space in Denver, Colorado in December, 2006.