James Byrne
Contact: byrnefilms@gmail.com
James Byrne, 883 Linwood Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105
Reimagined Reconstructed 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 and inviting.
By enlarging the original to 30x25 and beyond, the pocket size polaroid is replaced by something large and unruly. This scale deviation changes everything. Printing on a polyester weave, vinyl substrate, the works can be mounted just about anywhere, unframed, like hanging textiles.
They can move and bend. They are not only images, but objects occupying space.
James Byrne




This summary highlights recent group and individual exhibitions of my work. Video works and film are noted in bold.
2026
Variations, D'art Gallery, Denver, CO
Open Call: A Celebration of Contemporary Photography, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
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
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
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



Ladder Against Wall with Bucket

Angle of Repose

Think He'll Ever Come Back?

Sky with Ladder

Cow Calamity

Woman with Wheelbarrow

Oh My
