He was educated at the California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics (1998) and went on to study at the Hunter College, New York graduating in 2005 with an Master of Fine Arts.
He lives and works in Brooklyn, New New York He uses stencils, tape, knives and spray paint in the style of Outsider art His work has been exhibited at prominent international galleries and museums including Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Mori Museum in Tokyo (solo) and has been featured in high profile exhibitions including, “Greater New York” at the Process Status 1 Contemporary Art Center and Museum of Modern Art in New York, and “United States of America Today” at the Royal Academy in London.
His work is in prominent collections, including the Oppenheimer – JCCC Collection for the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Saatchi Gallery, Brooklyn museum, LACMA. He was represented by Zach Feuer Gallery in New York until 2010 and did the second to last show at Deitch projects in 2010.
He is currently showing with Salon 94 in New York and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery in Paris, France. In 2006, de Balincourt founded the alternative art space Starr Space (formerly known as Starr Street Projects) in Brooklyn, New New York Carol Lee called de Balincourt the "mayor of Bushwick" in an article for Paper Magazine.
