Jeffrey Byrd is a photographer and performance artist whose work has been widely shown throughout the United States. He has had solo exhibitions in New York, Minneapolis, Philadelphia and Portland. He has performed at Lincoln Center, DCTV, Greenwich House and the Alternative Museum in New York, Chicagos N.A.M.E gallery, Bostons Institute for Contemporary Art, & Full Nelson in Los Angeles. Byrds elegantly minimal art explores the metaphoric potential of the human body through video, movement, original music and otherworldly vocals. Much of his work connects the spiritual with the physical and translates autobiography into symbolic actions.