Michael Byron is a visual artist whose work is included in the museum collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Saint Louis University's Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Tamayo Museum (Mexico City), and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam, the Netherlands), among others. Byron earned his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and his MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in 1981. His inclusion in MoMA's An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture in 1984 marked the beginning of his international career. After participating in the 1989 Whitney Biennial, he moved to Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he lived and worked for five years. While in Amsterdam, he participated in group and solo exhibitions there and in Germany, France, and Spain.

Byron's work is characterized by a continuing interest in the nature of objects, specifically the theatrical nature of objects of contemplation, and a commitment to the practice of painting and collage with a strong parallel involvement with installation art. Byron has exhibited at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. He lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.