Joseph Brown started his art career at a young age. As a teenager he moved to New York City to advance his art.

Initially he enrolled at the Art Students League and studied with Daniel Greene for one year. During this same period, Brown also studied with Nelson Shandler and David Leffel. After this phase of his education, Brown left New York and enrolled at Boston University to continue his art studies there. Later Joseph moved to Connecticut to study privately with the well- known portrait artist Robert Brackman.

Brown has exhibited in the Salmagundi Club in New York, and the Francesca Anderson Gallery in Boston. A prolific artist, Joseph builds on his accomplishments of the past and continues to produce works of varying sizes and display applications, ranging from portraits to large murals. Some of these murals have been over 60 feet in length. In addition, he has painted works custom tailored for corporate accounts as well as dozens of historical scenes for other clienteles.

He has worked as a mural painter for several large companies in Boston including Leonard Silver, and Town and Country Jewelers. In addition, Brown has done hundreds of private portraits for various clienteles.

During the past decade Joseph Brown has been continually working as a fine artist, portrait painter and muralist. Recently, Brown completed a large painting for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., depicting the experiences of those who were interred during the Holocaust for their religious stand and neutrality during the war in defiance of the Nazi regime.