Born in Sydney in 1976, George Byrne graduated from Sydney College of The Arts in 2001, travelled extensively, and then settled in Los Angeles in 2011. George Byrne is photographic artist based in Los Angeles, he creates large-scale images that depict everyday surfaces and landscapes as painterly abstractions. Byrne’s keen interest in the deconstructive principles of abstract painting paired with a sharp compositional eye results in photographs photo-collage that provide a fresh contemporary perspective of the American landscape. Byrne’s oeuvre is to spin banal urban scenes into seismic moments. Byrne’s work is collected internationally; he is currently represented by galleries in New York, Vancouver, Oslo & Sydney.