biography

Judy Byron's undergraduate training in theater at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY was enhanced with additional art training at the Corcoran School of Art and Design.

Her works on paper have received recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MidAtlantic Arts Foundation and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Her permanent public works hang in various sites, including the School of Social Work in the Tate Turner Kuralt Building at UNC Chapel Hill, Service Employees International Union and the Urban Institute.

Selected solo exhibitions include Artists + Communities, curated by Angela Adams at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Selected group exhibitions include Art Against Aids on the Road (Washington, DC/Chicago, Illinois) and Art and Ethics (Sawtooth Center for the Arts, Winston-Salem, NC).

Her work is included in collections of The National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, Rutgers University, the U.S. Embassy Bogota, Columbia, and Absolut Vodka. She is the founder of CAMP, an Artist Mentorship Program, which was recognized as a national model for mentoring by the National Endowment for the Arts and the President's Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Her next installation PERFECT GIRLS is planned for Fall 2009.

Judy Byron lives in Washington, DC.