Kathy Butterly (American, born )

Timeline

1963
Born in Amityville, NY
1986
BFA, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1990
MFA, University of California, Davis, CA
1993
Received the The Evelyn Shapiro Foundation Grant
1995
Received the Empire State Crafts Alliance Grant
1999
Received the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, New York, NY
2002
Received the Anonymous Was A Woman Grant
2006
Awarded the Ellen P. Speyer Award, The National Academy of Art, New York, NY
2007
Received the Artist’s Legacy Foundation Grant
2009
Received the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, New York, NY
Received the Painters & Sculptors Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation
2011
Received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2012
Awarded the Smithsonian’s Contemporary Arts Award
2013
Awarded the Visionary Woman Award, Moore College of Art & Design,Philadelphia, PA

Exhibitions

2013
Visionary Women: Kathy Butterly and Ann King Lagos, Moore Collage of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
My Crippled Friend, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
2012
Lots of little love affairs, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo exhibition)
Figuring Color, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2011
Contemporary Clay, RH Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Pantyhose and Morandi, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Kathy Butterly and Jill Bonovitz, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009
Big Gulp, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo exhibition)
Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
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, NY (solo exhibition)
2006
Your Beauty’s Gold is Clay, Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY
The 181st Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2005
New Horizon of Ceramic Art, 3rd World Ceramic Biennial 2005 Korea, Icheon, Korea
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, NY
2004–2005
Freaks and Beauties, Opener 10: Kathy Butterly, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (solo exhibition)
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2004
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
2003
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo exhibition)
Very Familiar: Celebrating 50 Years of Collecting Decorative Arts, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
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
2002
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Byron Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2001
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Figstract Explosionism, Bridgewater/Lustberg & Blumenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
The 57th Scripps Ceramic Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA
15th Anniversary Exhibition, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Selections from the Allan Chasanoff Collection, Mint Museum of Craft & Design, Charlotte, NC
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Ceramic National 2000, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Defining Craft I, The American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA (solo exhibition)
Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (solo exhibition)
Kathy Butterly and Hung Liu, Byron C. Cohen Gallery Kansas City, MO
1999
The Art of Craft: Contemporary Works from the Saxe Collection, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum San Francisco, CA
Franklin Parrasch Gallery New York, NY (solo exhibition)
1998
Franklin Parrasch Gallery New York, NY (solo exhibition)
1996
Albers Fine Art Gallery Memphis, TN (solo exhibition)
New York, NY: Clay, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum; Ostfold Kunst. Trondnheim & Fredrikstad - Norway
1995
New York, NY: Clay, Rogaland Kunstnercenter & Hordland Kunstnercenter Stravanger & Bergen - Norway
Franklin Parrasch Gallery New York, NY (solo exhibition)
1994
Nancy Margolis Gallery New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Albers Fine Art Gallery Memphis, TN (solo exhibition)
1993
Kathy Butterly, The Clay Studio Philadelphia, PA (solo exhibition)
1992
Kathy Butterly, Moore College of Art Philadelphia, PA (solo exhibition)

Public Collections

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Renwick Gallery, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
The American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, 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
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA (promised gift of the Saxe Collection)
The Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Literature

2001
Mark Del Vecchio, 'Postmodern Ceramics', Thames & Hudson publishers
1997
Karen Chambers, 'Next of Kiln', Art & Antiques, January
1995
Garth Clark, 'Rising Above the Polemic- Organic Abstraction in Contemporary Ceramics', Ceramics Art and Perception, Issue 22
1992
Gretchen Adkins, 'The Pots of Kathy Butterly', Ceramics Art and Perception, Issue 23
English (US)

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