1. Professional Benchmarks:

  2. 2010 - 2nd Place - Artists’ Choice Award: Telluride Plein Air, Telluride, CO
    2010 - People’s Choice Award & 3rd Place Award: Cranford Paint the Town, Cranford, NJ - Juror Allison Malafronte
    2010 - 3rd Place Award: Wayne Plein Air Festival, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA - Juror William Scott Jennings
    2010 - Honorable Mention: Rehoboth Beach Paint Out, Rehoboth Art League, Rehoboth, MD
    2010 - Poster Artist for Rehoboth Jazz Festival, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
    2009 -     Second Place, Havre de Grace Plein Air Competition, Havre de Grace, MD - Juror Armand Cabrera
    2009 - Second Place, Bayonet Farms Plein Air Competition , Holmdel, NJ - Jurors Peter Trippi and James Yarosh
    2009 - Best of Show, Mountain Maryland Plein Air, Cumberland, MD, - Jurer Nancy Tankersley
  3. 2009 - Honorable Mention, Berks Art Alliance 32nd Annual Juried Exhibit at the Reading Museum - Jurors Nancy Barch and Douglas Wiltraut
  4. 2009 - First Place, The Art of Jazz, Berks Arts Council/Berks Jazz Fest, Reading, PA
  5. 2008 - Fast Lane Art, Billboard Award, Berks Arts Council, Reading, PA
    2008 - Open Box M - Plein Air Award, Chadds Ford Historical Society
  6. 2007 - People's Choice Award and Award of Excellence, Paint Annapolis 07 sponsored by MAPAPA - Juror Eric Tobin
  7. 2007 - First Place Award: Rehoboth Beach Paint Out, Plein Air Event sponsored by the Rehoboth Art League - Juror Kirk McBride
  8. 2007 - Award of Exellence: Wayne Plein Air Festival, The Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA - Juror Sara Linda Poly
  9. 2006 - Second Place Award: Paint Annapolis 2006, Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Assoc. - Juror Statpleton Kearns
    2006 - Featured in the February issue of Art Business News Magazine in the Trendsetter/Emerging Artist section
  10. 2006 - Published second book titled The Art of Conversation: Manhattan, which includes 39 paintings depicting conversations in the parks, streets
    and café’s of Manhattan. Introduction written by Meredith Lewis, Editor of American Artist Watercolor Magazine,
  11. 2005 - Poster artist for Diabetes Research Institute in Miami for their Annual Feast Among the Grapes Benefit
  12. 2003 - Auction Record established June 2003 at Freeman’s Auction, Philadelphia
  13. 2003 - Juried into the Philadelphia Sketch Club
  14. 2002 - Published book titled The Art of Conversation, which includes 42 paintings as well as text explaining my inspirations and thoughts of conversation
    in modern day culture. Introduction written by Constance U. Battle, M.D., previous executive director of the National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
  15. 2002 - Art of Conversation books available at Borders Books and Barnes & Noble

  17. Solo Exhibitions:

  18. 2009 - Plein Air - The American Art Gallery, Snow Hill, MD
  19. 2008 - The Art of Conversation - All Plein Air, Fromm Gallery, JCC of Reading, PA
    2006     - The Art of Conversation: Manhattan, Happy Dog Gallery, Piermont, NY
  20. 2006 - The Art of Conversation, The Apollo Grill, Bethlehem, PA
    2004 - Recent Paintings/The Art of Conversation,Ventures Gallery, Rehoboth Art League, Rehoboth Beach, DE
    2003 - The Art of Conversation, Homeworks Gallery, West Chester, PA
    2002 - The Art of Conversation/Paintings from the Book, Institute of the Arts, Wyomissing, PA
    2001 - Recent Paintings by Michele Byrne, Phoebe Berks Village, Wernersville, PA
    2000 - New Watercolors by Michele Byrne, The Highlands Gallery, Wyomissing, PA
    1999 - Plein Air Paintings from Jamaica, Borders Books and Cafe, Reading, PA

  22. Selected Group and Juried Exhibitions:

  23. 2009 - Featured Artist at Immaculata University Art Show, Malver, PA
  25. 2007 - Uptown Gallery, New York, NY, The Art of Conversation: Manhattan
    Immaculata University Art Show, Malvern, PA
  26. Yellow Springs Art Show, Historic Yellow Springs, PA
  27. Wayne Art Center - Plein Air Event, Wayne, PA
  28. Art & Decor - 3 person show, Reading, PA
  29. Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Annual, Philadelphia, PA
  30. Rehoboth Beach Paint Out - Plein Air Competition, Rehoboth, DE
  31. Wickford Art Festival, Wickford, RI
  32. Rehoboth Beach Art Festival, Rehoboth, DE
    MAPAPA - Paint Annapolis 07
  35. 2006 - ArtExpo New York, Jacob Javits Center, NY, NY
  36. Philadelphia Sketch Club 143rd Annual Juried Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia, PA
  39. 2005 Immaculata University Art Show, Malvern, PA
  40. Coconut Grove Arts Festival, Coconut Grove, FL
  41. Yellow Springs Art Show, Historic Yellow Springs, PA
  42. Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Annual, Philadelphia, PA
  43. Allentown Art Festival, Buffalo, NY
  44. Manayunk Art Festival, Philadelphia, PA
  45. Wickford Art Festival, Wickford, RI
  46. Rehoboth Beach Art Festival, Rehoboth Beach, DE
  49. 2004 Berks Art Alliance Members Show, Wyomissing, PA, 1st Place Award
  50. Immaculata University Art Show, Malvern, PA
  51. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Juried Continuing Education Exhibit, Philadelphia, PA
  52. Rittenhouse Square Arts Annual, Philadelphia, PA
  53. Manayunk Art Festival, Manayunk, PA
  56. 2003 Purchase Award/Berks Art Alliance 26th Annual Juried Art Exhibit, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
  57. Rehoboth Beach Art Festival, Rehoboth Beach, DE
  58. Philadelphia Sketch Club 140th Annual Juried Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia, PA
  59. Phila/Tri State Artists Equity Spring Exhibition, Atlantic City Art Center, Atlantic City, NJ
  60. Chadds Ford 54th Annual Art Show, Chadds Ford, PA
  61. Gallery 911 @ Revsin, A Woman’s Perspective, 911 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA
  62. Yellow Springs Art Show, Chester Springs, PA
  65. 2002 Immaculata College Art Show, Malvern, PA
  66. Berks Art Alliance 25th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
  67. Rehoboth Beach Art Festival, Rehoboth Beach, DE
  70. 2001 Yellow Springs Art Show, Chester Springs, PA
  71. Rehoboth Beach Art Festival, Rehoboth Beach, DE
  72. 2000 Berks Art Alliance 23rd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA (also 1998, 1999)
  73. Allentown Art Museum’s 27th Juried Show, Allentown, PA

  75. Education:

  76. 2009 Studied with artists Richard Schmid, Stuart Shils and Ken Auster
    2001-2003 Figure and Portraiture classes, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
    2002 Studied with California artist Robert Burridge at the Institute of the Arts, Wyomissing
    1977-1981 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Communication Design, minor in Illustration/Painting, Kutztown University, PA

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