Joey Slaughter earned his BFA from Memphis College of Art and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Upon graduating Cranbrook, Slaughter was awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. He has also received the Louisiana Division of the Arts Career Enhancement Grant. Slaughter has exhibited widely throughout the US in both solo and group exhibitions. His work has been published in Fresh Paint and in New American Paintings magazine four times. In 2017, Slaughter was awarded the Louisiana Prize from South Arts. In 2018 and 2021, he had solo shows at Cole Pratt Gallery in New Orleans. Slaughter has attended residencies at the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, Hambidge Residency in Georgia, Crosstown Arts Residency in Memphis, The Joan Mitchell Foundation Residency in New Orleans, and will attend Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in summer of 2023. He recently had his first Museum solo show in December of 2022 at The Masur Museum of Art, in Monroe, LA. He currently lives in Ruston, LA, and is Associate Professor of Art at Louisiana Tech University.