Joe Girandola is a professional artist originally from Baltimore, Maryland and has exhibited work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Geffen Contemporary,1996, Los Angeles; Kunsthalle Wien,2000,Austria; 1997 Kwangju Biennial, South Korea; 1997 Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art (Nexus) Biennial, Georgia. Recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant for 2003-04, Girandola was Assistant Director for the Santa Fe Art Institute(NM) until May of 2004. In addition to the Pollock-Krasner Grant, Girandola has been awarded an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Assistance Grant, Change, Inc. Grant administered by Robert Rauschenberg, and an Artists Fellowship, Inc. Grant. Currently maintaining a studio in Philadelphia, PA, Girandola has received an artist fellowship at The MacDowell Colony in 2004. and a fellowship at the Caldera Artist Residency Program in 2009.He is the Director of the MFA Program in Ceramics, Painting and Sculpture at the University of the Arts.