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 Polaroid Reimagined 2026

I begin with polaroids taken of ordinary scenes in my neighborhood.  When I add animals, insects, human figures, and objects to the mix, this ordinary scene ignites into a richly imagined tableau - moments frozen in time.  Some are whimsical, others disquieting.  

Narrative is open ended.  I invite you to make up your own stories for what you see. 

Most of these are printed at 20x16 and framed.  For site specific installations I print on a polyester weave vinyl substrate in a variety of sizes up to 61x51.

​                      James Byrne                             

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"Backyard Pool" was selected for Open Call:
a Celebration of Contemporary Photography exhibition at
PhotoPlace, Middlebury, VT, August 2026
Also included in Making Strange at Praxis Photo Art
Center,  Minneapolis, July 2026
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"Long Day's Journey"  was shown recently in group shows:
Variations, D'art Gallery, Denver, October 2026,
and upcoming at the Center for Photographic Art,
Carmel, CA, December 2026, juried by Lisa Volpe, Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
 
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​Recent group and individual exhibitions.  Video works and film are noted in bold.

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2026 

International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA, Juror Lisa Volpe, "Long Day's Journey", December 2026

Variations, D'art Gallery, Denver, CO, "Long Day's Journey", October 2026

Open Call: A Celebration of Contemporary Photography, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT, "Backyard Pool", August 2026 

Untitled 20, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN

Light Cut On Paper: Photography and Collage, New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, New Orleans, LA    

Making Strange, Praxis Photo Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, "Backyard Pool",July 2026

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2025

A Memory to Enshrine, Gamut Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

 

2024 

Airport 2024, Atlanta Photo Group, Atlanta International Airport Gallery, GA

Flying Objects, Edgewater Gallery, Fort Brag, CA

When Photography Meets Collage, New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery, New Orleans, LA

360 Degrees - Looking at Last Year, D’art Gallery, Denver, CO 

 

2023

James Byrne: Unforeseen Anomalies, individual exhibition, Pump House Regional Arts Center, La Crosse, WI

Light, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC

 

2022

PhotoMidwest 12th Biennial, Promega Gallery, Madison, WI

North of the 45th, DeVos Art Museum, Lafayette, MI

Inside Out/Upside Down, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Cape Cod, MA

Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival; Official Selection, short film

Pressing Innovations, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI

Shadow Perspective, Praxis Photo Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN

                                                                                                       

2021

James Byrne: New Works, individual exhibition, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins

Global Groove, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; short video

Alternative Facts: Photography by Any Means, PACE Center Gallery, Denver, CO;     

Arts North International, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN 

Spot On #2, D'art Gallery, Denver, CO

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2020

The Body Electric, Museum of Art and Design, Miami, FL; video installation

Videotapes: Early Video Art, Zacheta-National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, short video

Art Inspired by Music, Vine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN

Emerge, D'art Gallery, Denver, CO

Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, Official Selection, short film

 

2019

The Body Electric, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, video installation

The Body Electric, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, video installation

Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, Official Selection, short film

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