Byron Armstrong is a freelance writer and award-winning journalist who writes about arts, culture and community. His writing appears in Esse arts + opinions, The Globe and Mail (Books), Whitehot Magazine, Arts Help and The National Gallery of Canada Magazine where his stories "The Abstractions of Sam Gilliam" and "Peril: The World Through the Eyes of Stan Douglas" were selected as two of the National Gallery of Canada Magazine's Top 10 Articles of 2024. Byron has authored curatorial essays for the transatlantic exhibition When the Bread They Have Cast on the Waters Comes Floating Back at The D’Aguilar Art Foundation (Nassau, Bahamas) and United Contemporary Gallery (Toronto, Canada), as well as the retrospective show Barbara Moore: Life, Lessons and Legacy at Caliban Arts Theatre. In addition, Byron edited the catalogue essay for "Ilene Sova’s UNKNOWN RELATIVE exhibition at John B. Aird Gallery for the CONTACT Photography Festival, co-written by curator and Executive Director Carla Garnet, and the artist. He was also a juror and co-curator of John B. Aird Gallery’s 2024-2025 Portraits online exhibition and publication. He resides in Toronto, Canada (Tkaronto) with his family.