BIO

Joe Palumbo is a fantasy illustrator whose work has been featured in graphic novels, magazines, private collections, and galleries through out the USA.  He has received his B.F.A, in Illustration, from Pennsylvania College of Art & Design.  Joe resides in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; a great art town that he truly loves.

When Joe Palumbo isn’t creating art, he is the Director of Grandview Gallery.  A professional art gallery located in the Administration Building of Wilson High School in West Lawn, Pennsylvania.  Joe is very enthusiastic about exhibiting student and established artists, while educating the community about what art is, how we create art, and how art can be interpreted. 

If you are interested in showing your work at Grandview Gallery please email Joe Palumbo at grandviewgallery@share.wilsonsd.org. 

To find out more about Grandview Gallery please visit www.grandviewgallery.net.  Please Follow Grandview Gallery on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Clients

• National Council on Problem Gambling

• Private Commissions

• Slack Incorporated

Featured

• Alterna Comics Originals, Sketch Cards, Alterna Comics

• American Terror: Confession of a Human Smart Bomb Vol. 2, Alterna Comics

• FUBAR: American History Z, Aterna Comics

• FUBAR: Empire of the Rising Dead, Aterna Comics
• Infected By Art, Vol. 6.  Art Order LLC
• Infected By Art, Vol. 7.  Art Order LLC

• Irregular Magazine
• Lords of the Cosmos #1 Variant Cover, UGLI Studios




Education

• Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration.  Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

• Wyomissing Institute of the Arts (currently, The Yocum Institute for Arts Education), Reading, Pennsylvania

Institutional Affiliations

• 2015-current.  Gallery Director, Grandview Gallery.  Wilson High School, West Lawn, PA. 
• 2015-current. Alumni Ambassador, Development Committee.  Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA.

• 2007-current. Judge for Wilson High School’s annual Jerry Gabrielle Art Scholarship. West Lawn, PA.

Awards
• 2018 Peoples Choice Award. Fast Lane Art. Berks Arts Council.
• 2018 Best In Show. All Crow Art Show. Something To Crow About.

Exhibitions 
• 2019 Anitas on Walnut: Bakery & Cafe, solo exhibition.  Lancaster, PA.
• 2018 Philustration X, group exhibition. The Philadelphia Setch Club, Lancaster, PA.
• 2018 The Grand Opening of the New Annex Gallery & Studio, group exhibition.  Annex Gallery & Studio, Lebanon, PA.
• 2018 Fast Lane Art, group exhibition. Berks Arts Council, Reading, PA.  *Peoples Choice Award winner
• 2018 All Crow Art Show. group exhibition. Something To Crow About. Manheim Township Public Library, Lancaster, PA. *Best In Show winner

• 2016 You May Say I’m A Dreamer, group exhibition. The Rooted Artist Collective, York, PA.

• 2015 Phillustration VII, group exhibition. The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA.

• 2015 Untitled, group exhibition. Sunshine Art + Design, Lancaster, PA.

• 2013 I’m The Art Show, Deal With It!, group exhibition. PixelDrip Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

• 2012 Six Seasons and a Movie Art Show, group exhibition. PixelDrip Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

• 2012 Phillustration V, group exhibition. The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA.

• 2011 Gamescape, group exhibition, at Artscape 2011. The Pinkard Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.

• 2011 Phillustration IV, group exhibition. The Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA.

• 2010 Drawgasmic, group exhibition. 2720/ Art Dimensions Gallery, St. Louis, MO.

• 2009 Sketch It Out, group exhibition. APW Gallery, Queens, NY.

• 2008 Illustrations, solo exhibition. Grandview Gallery, Wilson High School, West Lawn, PA.

• 2008 Searching For Beauty: A Visual Questionnaire, group exhibition. Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA.


• 2008 The Artist and the Baseball Card, group exhibition. Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA.

Permanently Exhibited:

• Hackensack Hospital, Hackensack, New Jersey