Artist Bill Barminski creates artwork in many media including painting, music videos, video installation, digital music composition and interactive formats. For over ten years he has mounted at least one solo painting exhibition every year at galleries in Los Angeles and New York. Visitors to Los Angeles can see his handiwork at the corner of Sunset Blvd. and Crescent Heights on the Absolut Barminski billboard. Recently he has begun directing music videos and has received a gold record for his work on "Everybody's Free" (the Sunscreen Song). Barminski shares his knowledge with students in the Lab for New Media at UCLA where he has been teaching as a visiting professor since 1997.

Barminski first came to public attention in the early eighties with his underground comicbook, Tex Hitler: Fascist Gun in the West, a scathing satire of American and international politics. Noted cultural author Greil Marcus, who has written about Tex Hitler in the pages of Art Forum International, says "What's most remarkable about Bill Barminski's Fascist Gun in the West is how quickly and completely it pulls you into it's twisted, yet utterly familiar little world." The underground nature of the Fascist Gun in the West and it's limited publication have made it a much sought after collectors item among comic book aficionados.

Barminski parlayed his initial success into a job as an editorial cartoonist for the Daily Texan, the student paper of the University of Texas at Austin. The strip, entitled King of the Pre-Fab, featured the adventures of Dick Nixon, a used car salesman and campus gadfly. Scott Scarborough, President of the U.T. Students Association was so pleased with Barminski's cartoons he repeatedly tried to have him fired from the paper. Much to their credit, the Daily Texan refused to be intimidated and continued to publish Barminski's work until his departure in 1985.