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My interdisciplinary process begins with a foundation of photography, then evolves and grows through incorporating techniques such as drawing, fracture, repetition,

erasure, painterly abstraction and digital collage.  Graphic marks, bold swaths of saturated color, fleeting figurative elements, fish and other organic shapes

populate my digital photo drawings.  I’m inspired by a variety of sources including Minoan paintings, abstract expressionism, European cinema and visual life.

My concerns revolve around imaginary worlds, collective and individual memory, personal heritage, and unforeseen anomalies.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     - James Byrne                                    

2021

Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, Global Groove, international group show

Artistry, Bloomington Arts Center, 45th Annual Members Juried Art Exhibition

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

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

   https://parkerarts.org/art-gallery-exhibits/james-byrne/

Hopkins Center for the Arts,  Arts North International

Artoze Gallery, Dubai, A New Start (online juried exhibition)

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2020

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

Vine Arts Center, Minneapolis, Art Inspired by Music

Museum of Art and Design, Miami, The Body Electric  

  http://mdcmoad.org/explore/exhibitions.aspx

Jimmy Wilson Gallery, Minneapolis, Guest Artist

Hopkins Center for the Arts, member group show

D'art Gallery, Denver, Emerge, juried group show

Divulgarti Gallery, Genoa, Codici d'arte (Art Codes), juried group show  

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2019

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The Body Electric, https://walkerart.org/calendar/2019/body-electric

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,  San Francisco

Rogue Buddha Gallery, Minneapolis, Mourning Glory, group show

2019 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival,  Made in Minnesota Short Films

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2018

ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, Video Art, https://zkm.de/de

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 James Byrne's previous work in video has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe including Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,              

San Francisco; and National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland. His videos are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.   His short films have screened nationally including the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival.  His new photo drawings have been exhibited widely.

 Byrne graduated from the University of Minnesota and earned an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  He lives in St. Paul.

 Divulgarti, Genoa, Codici d'arte, 2020 

 Gallery view "Scale Drawing" - Museum of Art and Design, Miami, 2021