Michael Byron works with the theatrical nature of objects of contemplation, across painting, collage and installation.
Born in Rhode Island. BFA, Kansas City Art Institute. MFA, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1981. Included in the Museum of Modern Art's International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, 1984.
Collections include the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, Museo Tamayo and Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. He has lived in New York, Amsterdam and Cambridge, and works in St. Louis.