Noel holds a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

His work has been selected for exhibition at art venues such as the Contemporary Arts Workshop in Chicago, and has won awards such as first-place prize at the Live Oak Art Center regional competition covering Austin, Houston and San Antonio.

 

Noel's work has been selected for the nationally acclaimed periodical New American Paintings and reviewed in Circa Ca.: the Texas-Based Journal of Contemporary Art.

 

Noel teaches painting and drawing at Austin Community College, the School of the Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria and at his studio.