Donna Zarbin-Byrne is known for a wide range of projects including site-specific installations, public art, individual sculptural objects, and works on paper. Her biomorphic abstractions investigate mysterious and cerebral responses to the forces of nature through the transformation of natural materials.

Zarbin-Byrne studied at Alfred School of Ceramics in Alfred, NY, and earned her MFA from the University of Texas, San Antonio, TX. with a concentration in ceramic sculpture and pre-Columbian art history. She received an Awards to Artists, Dozier Travel Grant, Dallas Museum of Art, an Individual Artists Fellowship, (inter-disciplinary art) Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Franklin Furnace fund, New York, NY.  and has been awarded grants and exhibitions through the Artists in Education program, Illinois Arts Council.

She has exhibited nationally from The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, to The Schaefer International Art Gallery, Maui. Solo exhibitions include Arts Fort Worth, Fort Worth TX. and Hawaii Pacific University Art Gallery, Kaneohe, HI. 

Her work can be found in the City of Houston, Civic Arts Collection, and the John Peace Print Collection, University of Texas, San Antonio. Zarbin-Byrne has received numerous public and private commissions including a public sculpture for the city of Evanston, IL., The Gardens at San Juan, San Antonio, TX., and a garden memorial for St. Phillips Church, Glenview, IL.

She co-founded Artisan Restoration International which provides custom design, casting, and restoration services across the globe. Donna lives and works in Dallas, Texas, and Haiku, Hi.