Caroline Byrne completed her degree in Art/Design with DIT in 1991. Following a 3 year period of drawing and writing, she spent five years in San Francicso working as a graphic designer and illustrator. She completed a Masters in Illustration at the Edinburgh College of Art in 2002 and joined the Black Church Print Studio in 2004.
Byrne has exhibited in solo and group shows in Scotland and Ireland since 2004, and has been teaching bookbinding and relief printmaking at the Black Church Print Studio and the National Print Museum since 2007. She was a board member of the Black Church between 2019 -2022.
In 2015 Byrne created the programme ‘Connection to Time and Place’. This programme engages communities imaginatively in the world around them using natural materials reflective of the time of year. It takes place in kindergartens, wild spaces and primary schools around the city.
Her work is held in private and public collections including the OPW, the Department of Finance and The National Irish Visual Arts Library (NIVAL), at the National College of Art and Design.