Kathy Butterly was born in Amityville, NY and was raised primarily in Franklin Lakes, NJ. Kathy went to the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia for undergrad and UC Davis for graduate school. In 1992 she moved back to the east coast from California and set up a studio in Hoboken, NJ. In 1995 Kathy moved to a loft in the East Village where she currently lives and works with her husband and two kids, who are now in college.

Kathy has had many solo exhibitions in NYC and LA and has been included in various group shows around the US and abroad; notably: “The 54th Carnegie International in 2004-05,” “Figuring Color: Kathy Butterly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roy McMakin, & Sue Williams,” at the ICA, Boston, “Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler,” at The Rose Art Museum, MA, and “Freaks and Beauties, Opener 10: Kathy Butterly,” at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY.

In 2014 she the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship Award, 2012 the Smithsonian American Art Museum Contemporary Artist Award, 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation: 2009 Painters and Sculptors Grant, 2009 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, 2002 Anonymous Was a Woman Award, a few NYFA’s, and just this year, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant among others.

Her new work can be viewed September 6th through October 14th at the James Cohan Gallery in Chelsea.

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