Siobhán Byrns, Professor of Art at the University of Lynchburg and teacher in both the Art Department and the Westover Honors College. Her current research stems from sustainable darkroom practices and alternative process techniques that focus on current social and political pressures on women and the environment.

Siobhán received her MFA in photography from the Art Institute of Chicago and received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, focusing both on traditional and time-based new media and photography. While a graduate student, she was formally trained as a fine art restorationist and conservator in some of the country’s most prominent museums. In 2004, while working in the Museum of The Art Institute of Chicago, she assisted in the digital restoration of Georges Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.

Her exhibition, Signaling Theory, is invaluable in its lessons, using chlorophyll prints suspended in resin that explore the recent experiences of a post pandemic landscape, alongside an awareness of our entanglements to place and nature, and our perception of time/immortality. 

Signaling Theory will be on view from March 1st through April 18th, 2024. She will give an artist talk at 6:30 p.m. on opening night, March 1st, 2024.