1988 Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1986 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Tew Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Tew Galleries, Atlanta, Georgia
2003 Jim Byrne: Domestic Fictions, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder,
Colorado
1998 Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta, Georgia
1997 Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina.
1996 Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta, Georgia.
1994 Forum Gallery, New York, New York.
1993 Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta, Georgia.
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina.
1992 Hanes Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Art Currents, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina.
1991 Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta, Georgia.
1990 Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta, Georgia.
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina.
1997 Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina.
1996 Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta, Georgia.
1994 Forum Gallery, New York, New York.
1993 Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta, Georgia.
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina.
1992 Hanes Art Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Art Currents, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina.
1991 Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta, Georgia.
1990 Galerie Timothy Tew, Atlanta, Georgia.
Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 People, Places & Things, Omni Gallery, Uniondale, New York.
2011 The Art of Eating, Gallery North, Setauket, NY.
2010 The Figure: Then and Now; Delaware County Community College; Media, PA.
2009 My Long Island, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York.
Patchogue Biennial, Briarcliffe College, Patchogue, New York.
2004 Jim Byrne, Leigh Palmer, Steven Whinfield, Deborah Zlotsky; Bachelier-Cardonsky
Gallery, Kent, Connecticut.
The Figure: Inside Out; Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina.
What’s Love Got To Do With It; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona. February
14 – April 25.
2002 Separate Realities: Jonathan Lev, Jim Byrne, Emily Steinberg, Victor Kerpel; 55
Mercer Gallery, New York, New York.
Humanity, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut.
Peripheral Visions, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, New York.
2001 Personal Perspectives: Jim Byrne, Melanie Baker and Josh Walman; Omni
Gallery, Uniondale, New York.
2000 Looking at Contemporary Art from a Figurative Perspective, Gallery of
Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT.
1999 Re-presenting Representation IV, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York.
1998 The Centennial Open, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York;
The Figurative Impulse, Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami Dade Community
College, Miami, Florida.
1997 Figurative Expressions: Roisin Bateman, Jim Byrne, Eric Fischl, Tim Ross, Peter
Solow; Elise Goodheart Fine Arts, Sag Harbor, New York.
A Figurative Renaissance, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Figurative Impulse; New Faces, Forum Gallery, New York, New York.
Jim Byrne, David Loeb, David Skora, Bachelier – Cardonsky Gallery, Kent
Connecticut.
The Halpert Biennial, Appalachian State University, The Catherine J. Smith
Gallery, Boone, NC.
1996 Reinventing Realism, Everhart Museum; Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Thirty-Fifth Juried Exhibition, The Parrish Art Museum; Southampton, New York.
1995 American Paintings and Drawings, Forum Gallery; New York, New York.
James Byrne, Kirill Doron, Irene Hardwicke, Bachelier – Cardonsky Gallery, Kent,
Connecticut.
New Looks, Forum Gallery, New York, New York.
1994 Drawings and Paintings by American Modernists and Contemporary Artists, Forum
Gallery, New York, New York.
Trees, Bachelier –Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut.
1994 The Nature of Beauty, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, North
Carolina.
1993 Figurative Painting and Drawing, Forum Gallery, New York, New York.
1991 North Carolina Fellowship Exhibition, Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Center for the
Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Figure: Expressions of Spirituality, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art,
Greensboro, North Carolina.
1990 45th North Carolina Artists Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh,
North Carolina.
Jim Byrne, William Donnan, Dana Raymond, Durham Arts Council, Durham, North
Carolina.
1989 The Night of the Arts (North Carolina Visiting Artists Exhibition), Kennedy Center for
the Arts, Washington, D.C..
1988 Alexandria Museum of Art Juried Exhibition, Alexandria, Louisiana.
MFA Thesis Show, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Durham, North
Carolina.
Sixteenth Annual Competition for North Carolina Artists, Fayetteville Museum of
Art, Fayetteville, North Carolina.
1987 Durham Art Guild Juried Show (Donald Kuspit. Juror), Durham Art Guild Gallery,
Durham, North Carolina.
Southeastern Exhibition at Center Gallery, Center Gallery, Carrboro, North
Carolina.
National Print and Drawing Show, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore,
Maryland.
Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama.
1986 Figures Group Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Champaign, Illinois.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Creativity, 2005
2011 The Art of Eating, Gallery North, Setauket, NY.
2010 The Figure: Then and Now; Delaware County Community College; Media, PA.
2009 My Long Island, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York.
Patchogue Biennial, Briarcliffe College, Patchogue, New York.
2004 Jim Byrne, Leigh Palmer, Steven Whinfield, Deborah Zlotsky; Bachelier-Cardonsky
Gallery, Kent, Connecticut.
The Figure: Inside Out; Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina.
What’s Love Got To Do With It; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona. February
14 – April 25.
2002 Separate Realities: Jonathan Lev, Jim Byrne, Emily Steinberg, Victor Kerpel; 55
Mercer Gallery, New York, New York.
Humanity, Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut.
Peripheral Visions, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, New York.
2001 Personal Perspectives: Jim Byrne, Melanie Baker and Josh Walman; Omni
Gallery, Uniondale, New York.
2000 Looking at Contemporary Art from a Figurative Perspective, Gallery of
Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT.
1999 Re-presenting Representation IV, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York.
1998 The Centennial Open, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York;
The Figurative Impulse, Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami Dade Community
College, Miami, Florida.
1997 Figurative Expressions: Roisin Bateman, Jim Byrne, Eric Fischl, Tim Ross, Peter
Solow; Elise Goodheart Fine Arts, Sag Harbor, New York.
A Figurative Renaissance, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The Figurative Impulse; New Faces, Forum Gallery, New York, New York.
Jim Byrne, David Loeb, David Skora, Bachelier – Cardonsky Gallery, Kent
Connecticut.
The Halpert Biennial, Appalachian State University, The Catherine J. Smith
Gallery, Boone, NC.
1996 Reinventing Realism, Everhart Museum; Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Thirty-Fifth Juried Exhibition, The Parrish Art Museum; Southampton, New York.
1995 American Paintings and Drawings, Forum Gallery; New York, New York.
James Byrne, Kirill Doron, Irene Hardwicke, Bachelier – Cardonsky Gallery, Kent,
Connecticut.
New Looks, Forum Gallery, New York, New York.
1994 Drawings and Paintings by American Modernists and Contemporary Artists, Forum
Gallery, New York, New York.
Trees, Bachelier –Cardonsky Gallery, Kent, Connecticut.
1994 The Nature of Beauty, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, North
Carolina.
1993 Figurative Painting and Drawing, Forum Gallery, New York, New York.
1991 North Carolina Fellowship Exhibition, Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Center for the
Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina.
The Figure: Expressions of Spirituality, Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art,
Greensboro, North Carolina.
1990 45th North Carolina Artists Exhibition, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh,
North Carolina.
Jim Byrne, William Donnan, Dana Raymond, Durham Arts Council, Durham, North
Carolina.
1989 The Night of the Arts (North Carolina Visiting Artists Exhibition), Kennedy Center for
the Arts, Washington, D.C..
1988 Alexandria Museum of Art Juried Exhibition, Alexandria, Louisiana.
MFA Thesis Show, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Durham, North
Carolina.
Sixteenth Annual Competition for North Carolina Artists, Fayetteville Museum of
Art, Fayetteville, North Carolina.
1987 Durham Art Guild Juried Show (Donald Kuspit. Juror), Durham Art Guild Gallery,
Durham, North Carolina.
Southeastern Exhibition at Center Gallery, Center Gallery, Carrboro, North
Carolina.
National Print and Drawing Show, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore,
Maryland.
Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama.
1986 Figures Group Exhibition, Anderson Gallery, Champaign, Illinois.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
State University of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Creativity, 2005
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Painting, 1998.
Pollock – Krasner Foundation Grant, 1995.
North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, 1990.
Emerging Artist Grant, Charlotte Arts and Science Council, 1989/1990.
Limited Service Fellowship, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1986/1987.
Pollock – Krasner Foundation Grant, 1995.
North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, 1990.
Emerging Artist Grant, Charlotte Arts and Science Council, 1989/1990.
Limited Service Fellowship, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1986/1987.
Estelle Campbell Award (2nd Place), National Society of Arts and Letters Career
Award, 1986.
Outstanding Senior Award – Painting Department, University of Illinois, 1986.
Talented Undergraduate Tuition Waiver, University of Illinois, 1982, 1984, 1985.
Talented Undergraduate Tuition Waiver, University of Illinois, 1982, 1984, 1985.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bayles, Bryan, Jim Byrne, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina,
November, ArtPapers, Atlanta, GA, Spring 1991, p.54.
Braff, Phyllis, Personal Perspectives, Omni Gallery, The New York Times,
Long Island Edition. January 21, 2001, p.9.
Braff, Phyllis, 35th Juried Exhibition, The Parish Museum of Art, The
New York Times, Long Island Edition, October 6, 1996, p.22.
Chojnowski, Paul, Jim Byrne: Paintings;
Galerie Timothy Tew, ArtPapers, May/June 1996, Volume 20, Issue 3,
p.36-37.
Cullum, Jerry, The strength of ambiguity: Painter mixes subject matter with mystery,
The Atlanta Constitution and Journal, Atlanta, GA, October 4, 1991,
p.E2.
Fox, Catherine, Three personal visions compelling, powerful at TULA arts center
galleries, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Atlanta, GA January 26,
1990, E2.
Gettysburg Review, The, GRAPHICS, Volume 8, Number 2 /
Spring 1995, p. 281-288, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA, 17325-1491.
Greenberg, Blue, Art guild quartet: Mix, Match, mess, Durham Morning Herald, NC, April
8, 1990, p.E9.
Harper, Glenn, Shows suggest painting is alive and well, Atlanta
Journal/Atlanta Constitution, January 1996, P.19.
Jinker-Lloyd, Amy, Jim Byrne at Timothy Tew, Art in
America, New York, NY, January 1992, p.122.
Leach, Mark, Jim Byrne, Art Currents 8 , Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte,
NC, 1992.
Maschal, Richard, 2 Artists Have Enough Vision to Enrich Us, The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte,
NC, November 18, 1990, p.1F.
Maschal, Richard, THE ART OF CONNECTIONS, The Charlotte
Observer, Charlotte, NC, April 21, 1991, p.F1-2.
McGreevy, Linda, Modern Problems, Port Folio Magazine,
Virginia Beach, VA, October 12, 1993, p.15.
Nichols, Dorothy P., Mystery of human psyche explored, The
Courier Tribune, Asheboro, NC, January 24, 1989, p.6A.
Patterson, Tom, Mint features Byrne paintings of love, grief, The Charlotte
Observer, Charlotte, NC, June 14, 1992, p.1F,3F.
Seawright, Sandy, Jim Byrne’s New Show Offers Poetry and
Emotion, Break Magazine, Charlotte, NC, November 14, 1990, p.20.
Van Horn, Virginia, Byrne’s works peer into psychic windows,
Virginia Pilot, “Daily Break” section, Virginia Beach, VA, September 19,
1993.
TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPERIENCE
Professor of Art: Suffolk Community College, Selden,
New York,
1995-Present, Painting and Drawing.
Assistant Academic Chair: Department of Visual Arts, Suffolk
County Community College, Selden, New York, 2005-2008.
Academic Chair: Department of Visual Arts, Suffolk County Community College,
Selden, New York, 2003-2005.
Instructor: Parsons School of Design,
Foundation Department, 1994-1995, Drawing Fundamentals.
Instructor: Central Piedmont Community
College, Charlotte, N.C., 1990-1991, Design I and Design II (Color)
North Carolina Visiting Artist: Central Piedmont Community
College, Charlotte, N.C., 1988-1990.
Involved a variety of activities focused towards promoting the visual
arts in the community and the college.
Included in these activities were presentations, demonstrations and
workshops.
Visiting Lecturer: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Summer 1989, Painting – all
levels. Summer 1988, Drawing –
foundation level.
Instructor: The ARTSCENTER, Carrboro, North
Carolina. Spring 1988, Figure
Painting and Advanced Drawing.
Teaching Assistant: University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, 1987/1988. Sole
responsibility for designing and teaching a foundation level drawing course.
