BORN
EDUCATION
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 1963 | Amityville, NY |
EDUCATION
| 1990 | University of California, Davis, CA; MFA |
| 1986 | Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA; BFA |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2026 | Kathy Butterly, James Cohan, New York, NY (forthcoming) |
| 2023 |
Butterly / Pétursson, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland (two-person exhibition) Kathy Butterly: A beloved collection, 1994-2022, James Cohan, New York, NY |
| 2022 |
Color In Forming, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY Kathy Butterly: Out of one, many / Headscapes, The Portland Museum of Art, ME |
| 2021 |
Kathy Butterly: Out of one, many / Headscapes, Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis, MO Yellow Haze, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2019 | ColorForm, The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA |
| 2018 |
Kathy Butterly, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Thought Presence, James Cohan Gallery, New York |
| 2017 | Kathy Butterly, The Armory Show, New York |
| 2015 | The Weight of Color, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2014 | Enter, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York |
| 2012 | Lots of little love affairs, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2010 | Pantyhose and Morandi, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York |
| 2009 | Big Gulp, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2007 | Kathy Butterly, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Between a Rock and a Soft Place, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York |
| 2005 | Freaks and Beauties, Opener 10: Kathy Butterly, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Body Language, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2004 | Fall Into Spring, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York |
| 2003 | Kathy Butterly, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2002 | Recent Work, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York |
| 2001 | Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York; also 1999, 1998, 1997, 1995, 1994 |
| 2000 | Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO |
| 1993 | The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA |
| 1992 | Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2025 | A Certain Form of Hell, KARMA, Thomaston, ME All About 2025, James Cohan, New York, NY (forthcoming) Anonymous Was a Woman: The First 25 Years, Grey Art Museum, NY Anonymous Was a Woman: The First 25 Years, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, FL Anonymous Was a Woman: The First 25 Years, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Newton, MA Difficulty is cheerfully accepted, Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, New York, NY |
| 2024 | +collection, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME |
| 2023 | Tender Loving Care, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Kathy Butterly, Lynne Drexler, and Marley Freeman, KARMA, Thomaston, ME |
| 2022 | Painting in the Dark, James Cohan, New York, NY |
| 2021 | The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time, Brooklyn Museum, NY Shapes From Out of Nowhere: Ceramics from the Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC Crafting America, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AK |
| 2020 | Formed and Fired: Contemporary American Ceramics, The Anderson Collection, Stanford University, CA |
| 2019 | James Cohan: Twenty Years, James Cohan, New York, NY An Idea Needing to be Made: Contemporary Ceramics, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, Australia Open Ended: New Acquisitions the the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME Beyond the Cape! Comics and Contemporary Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL |
| 2018 | The Domestic Plane: New Perspectives on Tabletop Art Objects, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT Out of Control, curated by Peter and Sally Saul, Venus Over Manhattan, NYC Open Spaces: A Kansas City Art Experience, Kemper Art Museum, Kansas City, MO Molding/Mark-Making: Ceramic Artists And Their Drawings, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY Regarding George Ohr: Contemporary Ceramics in the Spirit of the Mad Potter, Boca Raton Museum Museum of Art, FL |
| 2017 | Morph, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York Small Sculpture, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago Correspondences: A Group Exhibition, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY In Conversation, Curated by Stephanie Buhmann, Indiana University Center for Art + Design, IN |
| 2016 | Salon 2016, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, CA No Rules No Rules, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York Objecty, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York Ceramix, la maison rouge/Cite de la Ceramique, Paris This is the Living Vessel: Person. This is What Matters. This is Our Universe, Pewabic, Detroit, MI |
| 2015 | Ceramix, Bonnefantenmuseum, Netherlands (self contained), Ventana Gallery, Brooklyn, NY All back in the skull together, Maccarone, New York, NY In Conversation, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, BMCC/The City University of New York, NY Nature, Sculpture, Abstraction and Clay: 100 Years of American Ceramics, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA |
| 2013 | 404 E 14, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York Visionary Women: Kathy Butterly and Ann King Lagos, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA My Crippled Friend, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH |
| 2012 | Figuring Color: Kathy Butterly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roy McMakin, Sue Williams, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA |
| 2011 | , Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY Uberyummy: Contemporary Confections and Objects of Desire, Robert and Frances Museum of Art, San Bernardino, CA Contemporary Clay, RH Gallery, NYC |
| 2010 | Braymand & Butterly – Contemporary Ceramics, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT The Jewel Thief, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY Kathy Butterly and Jill Bonovitz, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2009 | Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Pretty Is As Pretty Does, SITE Sante Fe, NM |
| 2006 | Your Beauty’s Gold is Clay, Alexandre Gallery, New York The 181st Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York |
| 2005 | Fired at Davis, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stamford University, CA Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2004 | Standing Room Only, 2004 Scripps 60th Ceramic Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA Curators’ Intuition, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME |
| 2003 | Very Familiar: Celebrating 50 Years of Collecting Decorative Arts, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2002 | Kanazawa World Craft Forum 2003, Kanazawa, Japan Works on Paper: Variations and Themes, Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, NY Re-Inventing Pleasure, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA |
| 2001 | Figstract Explosionism, Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York The 57th Scripps Ceramic Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA |
| 2000 | Selections from the Allan Chasanoff Collection, Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC Ceramic National 2000, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Samual P. Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Defining Craft I, The American Craft Museum, New York |
| 1999 | Pioneers and Terriers: Colenbrander, Ohr & USA Clay Today, Museum Het Paleis on Lange Voorhout, The Hague, Netherlands The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA |
| 1997 | Forms and Transformations of Clay, Queens Borough Public Library Gallery, Jamaica, NY |
| 1996 | New York, NY: Clay, Norkenfjeldeske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim; Ostfold Kunstnercenter, Fredrikstad; Rogaland Kunstnercenter, Stravanger; Hordland, Kunstnercenter, Bergen, Norway |
| 1995 | Robert Arneson: Changing the Face of Contemporary Ceramics, A Tribute, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1994 | Talentborse Handwerk 1994, Munich, Germany |
| 1992 | Contemporary Ceramics, Bennington College Gallery, Bennington, VT |
| 1991 | Thirty Years of TB-9: A Tribute to Robert Arneson, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA The 47th Scripps Ceramic Annual, Lang Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA |
| 1990 | The Fourth Concorso Nazionale della Ceramica d’Arte Savona-Fortezza Primiar, Savona, Italy |
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Anderson Collection, Stanford University, CA
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Iris & B Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, CA
The Luce Foundation Center for American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, s’Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
SELECTED AWARDS
Anderson Collection, Stanford University, CA
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Iris & B Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, CA
The Luce Foundation Center for American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, s’Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
SELECTED AWARDS
| 2019 | Honoris Causa, Moore College of Art |
| 2017 | Inductee: National Academy of Art and Design NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Tiffany Foundation Grant Award |
| 2014 | Guggenheim Fellowship Award |
| 2013 | Visionary Woman Award, Moore College of Art & Design |
| 2012 | Smithsonian American Art Museum Contemporary Artist Award |
| 2011 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant |
| 2009 | Joan Mitchell Foundation: Painters & Sculptors Grant New York Foundation for the Arts Grant |
| 2007 | Artist’s Legacy Foundation Grant |
| 2006 | Ellen P. Speyer Award, The National Academy of Art, New York |
| 2002 | Anonymous Was A Woman Grant |
| 1999 | New York Foundation for the Arts Grant |
| 1995 | Empire State Crafts Alliance Grant |
| 1993 | The Evelyn Shapiro Foundation Grant |