Windsor Joe Innis is a neo-impressionist painter listed in Who's Who in America and Gale's Contemporary Authors. His paintings are collected worldwide.

Innis has lived and worked in many countries throughout the world as a teacher, writer, painter, and sculptor, exhibiting in solo exhibitions in a variety of capitals, including Tokyo, Seoul (an '88 Olympic Exhibition), Istanbul, Buenos Aires, London, and New York. He has shown in a number of other cities in the US, and in Canada and Mexico. Full-color catalogues have been published for most of these exhibits. Christie’s contemporary Art of London was instrumental in organizing his first international exhibit in Tokyo in 1984. The director of Contemporary Art wrote the introduction to the exhibition catalog. Published by Kodansa of Japan, the publication featured the first appearance of Innis's The Better Times, a novella.

Princess Masako of Japan’s Royal Family supported Innis's Tokyo exhibit. In an introduction to his catalog she said, in part, " . . In our several conversations in Tokyo and Seoul, Mr. Innis revealed his belief that art is an international event rising above national considerations and boundaries. His paintings, his book underscore that conviction."

Innis's successful exhibitions in Istanbul were organized with the help from President Rauf Denktas of Northern Cyprus and his cultural advisors. The exhibition, Impressions, Turkey, was held in Topkapi Palace. It was sponsored by Mobil Oil Corporation and several Turkish owned multi-national companies. Innis has spent two years in Turkey and Cyprus.

Innis holds an M.F.A from Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, the setting for his recent novel. He earned his B.A. in Journalism from San Diego State University and, after some years in France, returned to the West Coast as a political writer and editor for several publications in California. His sculpture of then-President Richard Nixon is included in the The White House collection.

His first novel, In Pursuit of the Awa Maru, was published by Bantam Books in '81. This was followed by How to Become a Famous Artist and Still Paint Pictures, '94, a non-fiction account of his climb up the art ladder. His newest novel, Also Rising, was released in January '98 to strong national praise by Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Dallas Morning News, and ALA Booklist, which described it this way: "Full of humor and insight Innis's story brings together some of the best aspects of contemporary American fiction in its exploration of what it means to find art in life, and life in art."

Also Rising and How to Become a Famous Artist and Still Paint Pictures have recently been republished by The Author's Guild of America. These books can be found on-line and in brick-and-mortar bookstores throughout America.

For three years he authored a monthly advice column, "Speaking of Art,” for The Artist's Magazine. His paintings have appeared as cover art here and are included in a number of books and publications in the U.S. England, Japan, Korea and Turkey.

Life Model, his feature-length screenplay, was optioned by a Miramax producer. Another screenplay, A Kind of Eden, was a semi-finalist for two consecutive years in the prestigious Chesterfield competition.