Joseph Havel is a postmodernist American sculptor who was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Havel earned a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Minnesota and an MFA from Pennsylvania State University. He received a National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship in 1987 and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Artist's Fellowship in 1995. He lives and works in Houston, Texas and is Director of the Glassell School of Art.
His work is in public collections in the U.S. and abroad including:
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
The Menil Collection, Houston
The Whitney Museum, New York
The Dallas Museum of Art
The Federal Reserve, Dallas
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
The Academy of Art, Honolulu
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis
The Centre Pompidou, Paris
The French Ministry of Culture, Paris
Portland Museum, Fundacion Rouge, Paris
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuelle Kunst, Ghent, Belgium