With 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, Noel's work has been selected for exhibition at art venues such as the Contemporary Arts Workshop in Chicago and the Jones Center for Contemporary Art at Arthouse in Austin, Texas.

 

In 2007, juror and famed painter, Melissa Miller selected his work for first place at the Live Oak Art Center Annual Exhibition covering art from south and central Texas including Austin, San Antonio and Houston.

 

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