Joe Fyfe lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He has shown internationally throughout the last three decades. Recent solo exhibitions include Longhouse Projects, New York; White Columns, New York; Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne; ACME, Los Angeles; Graham, New York; Ryllega, Hanoi, Vietnam; and Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg. Fyfe was awarded a Fulbright in 2006, spending six months in Vietnam and Cambodia, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008. He has also received several Pollock-Krasner and Gottleib Foundation awards.

In 2010, he curated the widely recognized Le Tableau at Cheim & Read, New York, that re-introduced a number of French abstractionists, including Claude Viallat, into a contemporary dialogue with American abstraction. Additionally, he has curated 12 exhibitions at venues including Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton; Zurcher Studio, New York; and Apex Art, New York.

Fyfe has written reviews and essays for Artforum, Art in America, Arts AsiaPacific, Artnet.com, Hyperallergic, Modern Matter, Kilimanjaro and BOMB as well as numerous catalog essays. He is represented by Galerie Christian Lethert in Cologne, Germany and Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg, Geneva, Paris and St. Etienne.