Born in Santa Barbara, California in 1959, Byron studied Environmental Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Applied Art and Design at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. After a lengthy career as a freelance illustrator and printmaker, he turned his full attention to painting in 2000. Byron works
out of his studio in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, and lives in Evanston with his wife Patty and two old cats, Bear and Kathe. Byron is represented by Water Street Gallery in Douglas, MI.

"Byron Gin's world is captured in his paintings through a careful study of the simple and ordinary. Coffee cups, pencils,and rubberbands are his inspiration. Incredibly textured fields
of color surround these objects and bring meaning and
importance to something that most of us would never give the time to stop and study. Byron's paintings become an experience in meditation. They are spare and ambiguous, simple and complex,aggressive and subdued."

        -Maryjo Lemanski, Water Street Gallery

Selected Exhibitions

2008-2000
Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL

2008
Solo Exhibition, University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Playful Objects", Water Street Gallery, Douglas, MI

2007
"Studies in Studios", Water Street Gallery, Douglas, MI
"New Paintings", Uncommon Ground, Chicago, IL
"Off the Walls: New Work by Gallery Artists", Water Street Gallery, Douglas, MI.

2006
"Extraordinary Views of Ordinary Objects: Byron Gin and Len Cowgill", Water Street Gallery,
Saugatuck, MI

2005
"Art a la Carte", Water Street Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
"Saugatuck Talks", Water Street Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
"New Paintings", Uncommon Ground, Chicago, IL
"Go Figure", Water Street Gallery, Saugatuck, MI
"Portraits '05", Norris Gallery, St. Charles, IL

2004
"The White Show" The Gathering Place Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Big, Small Town", Up the Stairs Gallery, Chicago, IL
"A Very Relative Thing", 4 Person Show, The Gathering Place Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003
"Mighty Midwest Biennial 2", New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI

2002
"Portraits and Figures", High Risk Gallery, Chicago, IL
Chicago Art Open, Chicago, IL
"Portraits: Working Artists", Cafe 28, Chicago, IL
Two Person Show with Kevin Lahvic, AnamArt Gallery, Naperville, IL
"2 x 2 x 2", Union Street Gallery, Chicago Heights, IL
WCA Midwest Regional, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL

Awards

2006/05/04/03/01/00 Curator's Choice, Around the Coyote, Chicago, IL
2002 Honorable Mention, "2 x 2 x 2", National Juried Exhibition, Union Street Gallery,
Chicago Heights, IL

Collections

Deloitte Corporation, Chicago, IL
David Markin, Kalamazoo, MI

Publications

Krissoff, Sylvia, " Treatments of prosaic anything but ordinary", Grand Rapids Press, 08/03/06
Artner, Allen G., "10 things not to miss at Coyote", Chicago Tribune, 09/09/05
Lenoir, Lisa, "Raising the Art of Politics", Chicago Sun-Times, 02/09/03