Born in Dublin, and exhibiting internationally, Oisin Byrne paints “like a dream” creating “marvellous tumbling universes of line and colour, which shout: freedom!” (Dubliner Magazine).
Advocating ‘an art which is the product of play’, Oisín’s ‘chilled, blissed-out vision’ (Aidan Dunne, Irish Times) is tempered with humour and lightness, and takes influence from varied eastern perspectives and cultural traditions.
Byrne has become known for working with paper, making large scale origami installations, giant back-lit pin-prick drawings, and maps of the visible universe humbly pierced into a cardboard box. Oisín has collaborated with Astrophysicists, with fashion designers and with micro-sound composers in furthering his practice.
Oisin’s practice is international in both exhibition and production. In the past year he has had studio space in Montreal, Paris, LA, and most recently New York. He will be taking up a studio in Tokyo this coming summer.
His work is included in a number of important collections, including that of the Morrocan Monarchy, and his recent limited edition artist publication is stocked by Printed Matter NYC, and Shakespeare and Co., Paris.
