Sharon Butler

Sharon Butler (b. 1959, New London, Connecticut) grew up in Stonington, Connecticut, and moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, after earning degrees at Tufts University (BA), Massachusetts College of Art, (BFA), and the University of Connecticut (MFA). She has held solo exhibitions in NYC at Jennifer Baahng Gallery, Theodore Gallery, Pocket Utopia, and Central Fine Arts; in Connecticut at Slater Memorial Museum, University of Connecticut, Real Art Ways, and Furnace Art on Paper Archive; in Seattle at SEASON. Her work has been featured in publications such as The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, artcritical, The New Criterion, and New York Magazine. She has received awards from Creative Capital and the Warhol Foundation, Yaddo, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

She lives and works in Long Island City, Queens, New York, and New London, Connecticut.

WORKS

“rows of rows and numbered” (2022) at The Mark O’Donnell Theater.