John Michael Byrd
About JMB
John Michael Byrd is an alumnus of Louisiana State University with a BFA in Painting and Drawing with a minor in Art History. After graduation, John Michael began exhibiting his mixed media paintings while he served as the Special Events Coordinator at the Baton Rouge Gallery-center for contemporary art from 2007-2009.
He is primarily a painter, but also works in video, performance and installation. John Michael’s blurring of media and social conceptual commentary has been featured in numerous regional and national shows and competitions. Also, he has been awarded several grants and scholarships including the J. Kenneth Edmiston Memorial Scholarship and the Carl M. Thorp Memorial Art Scholarship.
John Michael is currently a MFA candidate in Studio Arts at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a full teaching assistantship. He resides in Sunderland, Massachusetts with his partner, Christopher and his pug-whippet mix, Mabel.
