Nanci Byrne (b. 1988) is a London-born and based contemporary painter and lecturer, with an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Arts.

Originally trained as a textiles designer, she crafts ornate, surrealistic works that subvert traditional "decorative" art through misdirection, dreamlike atmospheres, and uncanny motifs of mother/womanhood, featuring darkly comedic elements like animals, repetition, patterns, and destruction.​

Her influences span 17th-century tapestries, the Arts & Crafts movement, video games, and feminist literature such as Virginia Woolf's A Room of One’s Own and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper.

Byrne is a member of the Artists' Collecting Society, featured in "artists to watch" lists, while recently completing her residency with renowned Mandy Zhang Art gallery in London which concluded as a duo exhibition.