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.