BORN

1963	Amityville, NY

EDUCATION

1990	University of California, Davis, CA; MFA
1986	Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA; BFA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021	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	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

2021	Shapes From Out of Nowhere, 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	Open Ended: New Acquisitions the the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME An Idea Needing to Be Made, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen Victoria, Australia All Things Comics!, 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 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 Regarding George Ohr: Contemporary Ceramics in the Spirit of the Mad Potter, Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL Small Sculpture, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago Correspondences: A Group Exhibition, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NYC 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, curated by Nina Felshin All back in the skull together, Maccarone, New York 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, California State University, 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
2004-05	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	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
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
1995-96	New York, NY: Clay, Norkenfjeldeske Kunstindustrimuseum, Trondheim; Ostfold Kunstnercenter, Fredrikstad; Rogaland Kunstnercenter, Stravanger; Hordland, Kunstnercenter, Bergen, Norway
1994-95	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
The American Craft Museum, NY, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
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
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
The Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Museum of Contemporary Art, s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

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