Exhibitions

2024

Airport 2024, Atlanta Photo Group Exhibition, Atlanta International Airport, "Decision Indecision", Curator Stephanie Tung

Flying Objects, Edgewater Gallery, Fort Brag, CA;  "Pitchfork Rising" and "Shovel in the Sky", Curator Collen Gianatiempo

When Photography Meets Collage, New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery (Kolaj Festival), New Orleans, LA;  "Please Hold"

360 Degrees - Looking at Last Year,  D'art Gallery, Denver, CO; "Decision Indecision", juried group show

Juried Members Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA; (online), "Decision Indecision", Curator Crista Dix

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2023

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

Light, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC;  Juror Douglas Beasley, "Decision Indecision",

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2022 

PhotoMidwest 12th Biennial, Promega Gallery, Madison, WI;  "LaCrosse"

Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna CA; group show

2022 North of the 45th, DeVos Art Museum, Lafayette, MI, "Arms Across the Water"

Inside Out/Upside Down, Cultural Center of Cape Cod; "Arms Across the Water"

Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival; Official Selection, "Memory of Water", short film

Pressing Innovations, Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI; "Live"

Shadow Perspective, Praxis Photo Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN; "Side Walk No. 15", Jurors Choice Award

Arts North International, Hopkins Center for the Arts,  group show, "In the Shadow of Blue"

Migration, Gallerium, International group online exhibition, "With Heavy Hearts"

Black and White, Praxis Photo Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN;  "Nights and Days"                                                                                                                                                   

2021

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

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

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

Hopkins Center for the Arts, Arts North International; "Consequences" and "Last Dream"

D'art Gallery, Denver, CO; Spot On #2, "Reclining"

Bloomington Arts Center, Bloomington,MN; Members Juried Art Exhibition, "In the Shadow of Blue"

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2020

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

Zacheta-National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; Videotapes: Early Video Art, "Both" and Transluscent"

Vine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN; Art Inspired by Music, "Shovels in the Air"

Jimmy Wilson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Guest Artist

D'art Gallery, Denver, CO; Emerge, "Consequences"

Divulgarti Gallery, Genoa, Italy;Codici d'arte (Art Codes), group, "Memories of Home" 

Hopkins Center for the Arts, Juried Members Show; "Chance", Honorable Mention

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2019

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The Body Electric, "Scale Drawing", video installation 

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,  San Francisco, The Body Electric, "Scale Drawing", 

Rogue Buddha Gallery, Minneapolis, Mourning Glory, group, "The Five Ways"

Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival,  Official Selection, "Things to Say Before Leaving"

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2018

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

   "Both", "Tangent",  "Transluscent"

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                                                                 Biography

 James Byrne is a visual artist and photographer by nature.  He grew up in a small Minnesota town, Chisago City, and followed his interest in art at the University of Minnesota where he earned a B.E.S (1977) with concentrations in studio art and philosophy.  He holds an MFA in Video Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1979) and did additional graduate study at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York.  His past work includes video art, dance video, filmmaking, and now photography. 

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 Byrne's work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe.  His videos are in major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York;  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis;  Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg; Galleria d'Art Moderna Torino;  and Chazen Museum of Art, Madison; among others.  James received visual arts fellowships from McKnight Foundation, Bush Foundation, Jerome Foundation, MSAB and NEA in support of his art and career.

 

 His current interdisciplinary practice combines photography, collage, drawing and digital processes.

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