Gerard Byrne

Gerard Byrne studied at National College of Art and Design. The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are Dublin. Works named in the authority record are New Sexual Lifestyles. Work by Gerard Byrne is recorded in the collections of Belvedere, Tate, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Van Abbemuseum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

He is a graduate of the National College of Art & Design in Dublin, New School for Social Research in New York and a participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York.

Byrne's work utilizes lens-based media in carefully reconstructed images of “particular historically charged conversations originally published in popular magazines from the 1960s -1980s, with the intention of testing the cultural present of the gallery space against the present evoked in a magazine article from the recent past.” Byrne has exhibited internationally at ICA Boston, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Sweden, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, the 3rd Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, PS.1 Art Center, New York and 8th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul and the Renaissance Society in 2011. Byrne represented Ireland at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007. Characterized by laconic humor, Byrne's projects examine the ambiguity of language and what is achieved or lost in translation from text to image. Byrne is precise in his research and analysis of the relationship between time, documentation, and recognizable visual language, and while each of his various work teams is conceived independently, they resonate together as if created in relation to a specific but repairable historical referent.

Gerard Byrne is recorded with the occupation visual artist. Recorded as artist and photographer.