Ryley O’Byrne is an artist and writer from xwesam, the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples (Roberts Creek, Canada). Her work explores relational dynamics, intimacy, and the process of meaning-making through a diverse practice encompassing text, image, video, costume, and sculpture.

She attended The Mountain School of Art in Los Angeles and was a resident of the Critical Art Writing Ensemble III at the Banff Centre. Her short films have screened at festivals internationally and in 2022 she won the Prize for Hybrid Work at Festival Silhouette (Paris, France).