Joey Chou was born in Taiwan and grew up in Southern California. After graduating from Art Center College of Design with a degree in illustration, he has been working as a visual development artist in feature films and TV animation for the past 10 years. He is currently working at Sony Picture Animation. He has worked on films such as The Emoji Movie, Hotel Transylvania 2, Cloudy with Chance of Meatball 2 (animated shorts), Surfs up 2, Kung Fu Panda: Legend of Awesomeness, and more. He has worked with studios such as Disney, Nickelodeon, Dreamworks, Warner Bros, Cartoon network, Paramount, Sony, Netflix, and many more.

Joey is also known for creating illustration art for children's book such as It's a Small World, Say What, I'm a Ballerina (Little Golden Book), Monster & Son, B. Bear and Lolly series, working with publishers such as Simon and Schuster, Chronicle books, Random House, Disney Press, and HarperCollins. His graphic sense of style is influenced by many great illustrators from the 60s such as Mary Blair, Miroslav Sasek, Alice and Martin Provensen, and Ezra Jack Keats.