Jim Butler

Born 1956 in Boston.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Shoreham, VT.

Education
1980 M.F.A. Indiana University, Bloomington
1979 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1978 B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design
1977 Yale Norfolk Summer School of Painting and Music
Grants and Awards
2019 Corning Museum of Glass Visiting Artist Residency
2011 Glass Factory Museum Residency, Boda, Sweden
2007 Rockefeller Grant, UrbanGlass, New York
2006 Hauberg Research Fellowship, Pilchuck Glass School
2003 Mellon Foundation Grant for New Sculpture in Glass
1998 Tiffany Foundation Nominee

1987

1984

1983

 Vermont Council on the Arts Grant to Individual
Artists: Painting
1979 Ford Foundation Grant-Skowhegan School

Selected Exhibitions

2026
Jim Butler - Paintings, Buchmann Galerie
2025
The Marionette Show, Tibor De Nagy, New York, NY
2023
The Rare Odd Ones, Glass Factory Museum, Boda, Sweden
Glow, BravinLee Programs, NY, NY
2022
The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY
Shimmer, Berkshire Botanical Gardens, Stockbridge, MA
2021
If Tomorrow Comes, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
2020
Old Friends, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
The Gangurin: 40 Year Retrospective, Gangurin, Reykjavik, Iceland
2019
Ho Hum, Come All Ye Faithful, BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
2018
Parallel Realities, Collar Works, Troy, NY
Squares, Geoff Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Summertime, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Synaptic Reverb, Tibor De Nagy, New York, NY
2016
Introspection, BravinLee Projects, New York, NY
HeadSpace, Morris-Warren Gallery, New York, NY
The Soiled Garden
Solar Vortex, Geoff Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Gridspace, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Bittersüße Zeiten, Barock und Gegenwart Werke aus der SØR Rusche, Sammlung Oelde/Berlin, Museen Der Stadt, Aschaffenburg, Germany
Painting In Trees, The Peoples Park, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Improvised Showboat, NAICA, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Grand Point Weird, Grand Point Festival, Burlington, Vt
2011
New Year, New Work, New Faces, Storefront Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
The Glass Factory Museum, Boda, Sweden
2010
Glass Weekend, Creative Glass Center of America, Millville, NJ
See Through, Islip Museum of Art, Islip, NY
2007
Ho Hum All Ye Faithful, BravinLee Projects, New York, NY
Corrider, Reykjavik, Iceland
Affect/Effect-Adventures in Glass, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
2006
Horizon Line With A Monument, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Art Walk Benefit Auction, Custom House, New York, NY
Painting, Gallery Lars Bohman, Stockholm Sweden
2005
Yankee Love and Latin Doodle, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2001
Recent paintings, Buchmann Galerie, Cologne, Germany
To Be A Mirror, Eugene Binder Gallery, New York, NY
Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
Roger Smith, New York, NY
2000
Gangurin The Corridor, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
1999
Corridor Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
1998
Jim Butler, Buchmann Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Humanoid, Genvese/Sullivan Gallery, Boston, Mass
1997
Flight #20/ Spin Off, 21 Murray St., New York, NY
Bravin Post Lee, New York, NY
1996
Referencing Innocence/Not, Weingart Galleries, Occidental College, Los Angeles, Ca
Realism After 7.00 AM, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY
Galleri Lars Bohmann, Stockholm, Sweden
1995
Small Works, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York, NY
1994
Paintings and Unrelated Stories, Mustard, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Dyad, Sauce, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Its Only Rock And Roll-Currents in Contemporary Art, Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona
Bravin Post Lee, New York, NY
Track 16, Los Angeles, CA
1993
Medium Messages, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY
1992
Small, Really Small, Tiny, Stiebel Modern, New York, NY
1991
Art on Paper, University of North Carolina, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC
New York Collection, Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Against the Grain - Images of American Art 1960-1990, Southern Allegheny Museum of Art, Loretto, PA
P.S. 122 - 12th Anniversary Show, P.S. 122 Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Inaugural Exhibition, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Summer Selections, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NY
Tibor De Nagy, New York, NY
1989
Tribute to Tibor De Nagy, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngtown, Ohio
1988
Art and the Law, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
Art and the Law, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Art and the Law, Toronto Civic Center, Toronto, Canada
Art and the Law, West Publishing Corp., St. Paul, MN
Composite Modular, Central Fine Arts Gallery, New York, NY
1987
The Right Foot, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
Short Stories, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY
1986
Tibor De Nagy, New York, NY
1985
Manifestations of the Figure, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York , NY
1984
Rapturist Painting Exhibition, P.S. 122, New York, NY
Tibor De Nagy, New York, NY
Selected Publications
2019 “New American Paintings” Editor’s Choice, Steven Zevitas Pub., Illus.
“Jim Butler-Artist in Residence”, Online Video, Corning Museum Of Glass
2018 “Jim Butler-One Question One Answer”, Romanov Grave, March
2017 8 Art Shows That Will Set Your November On Fire, Spoiled NYC, Jaunita Tovar
Jim Butler Exhibition Review, Urban Glass Quarterly, John Drury, March, Illus.
Studio Interview, Magic Praxis Podcasts, Clarity Haynes and Kate Hawes
2011 New Glass Review, Corning Museum of Glass
Pilchuck At 40-Still Introducing Artists to Glass, G.A.S. News,
Dianne C. Wright, Curator of Glass, Chrysler Museum
2001 New Glass Review, Corning Museum of Glass
Pilchuck At 40-Still Introducing Artists to Glass, G.A.S. News,
Dianne C. Wright, Curator of Glass, Chrysler Museum
2000 Gangurin The Corridor, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay Gunnar J. Arnason, illus.
1998 The Humanoid, Matt Murphy, Arts Media Magazine, March
1997

Critics Choice, Shirley Kaneda, Bomb Magazine, Summer, Illus.
Jim Butler At Bravin Post Lee, David Ebony, Art In America, Illus.
1996

Realism After 7AM, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by Richard Millazzo, Illus.
“Surveying Realism in Celebration of Hopper, Vivian Raynor
New York Times, November, Illus.
1995 “Its Only Rock and Roll-Rock- Currents In
Contemporary Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by David S. Rubin,
Published by Prestel Press, Illus.
1994 Jim Butler Paintings, Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by David Moos,
Published by Smart Art Press, Illus.
1989 Tribute to Tibor De Nagy, Catalogue, Butler Institute of Art, Illus.
1988 American Art Today, Narrative Painting, catalogue, Florida
International University Art Museum, essay by John Hollander and Jed Perl, illus.
1985 Jim Butler at Tibor De Nagy, ARTS Magazine, Kirsten Powell