Born 1959, Connecticut, USA
Lives and works in New York
 

EDUCATION
MFA, Art, University of Connecticut, 1994
BFA, Painting, Massachusetts College of Art, 1987
BA, Art History, Tufts University, MA, 1981
 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Next Moves, Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York, NY, 2022
Morning in America, Theodore:Art, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY,  2021
New Paintings, Theodore:Art, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, 2018
Good Morning Drawings, SEASON, Seattle, WA, 2017
Sharon Butler, Theodore:Art, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
New Social Situations, Matteawan, Beacon, NY., 2015
Paintings (from Yaddo), EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT, 2015
Dense Surveillance, SUNY Westchester, NY, 2013
Precisionist Casual, Pocket Utopia, New York, NY, 2013
Gone Wrong, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 2012
Beacon Paintings, John Davis Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2009
Quotidian Analytics, Von Schlippe Gallery, University of Connecticut, Avery Point, 2006
Moby Dick, Used, New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA, 2005
Fontainebleau, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI, 2001
Fontainebleau, Project room, Central Fine Art, New York, NY, 2000
New Paintings, Central Fine Art, New York, NY, 1999
Natural Fiction, Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI, 1999
New Work, Central Fine Art, New York, NY, 1997
Sharon Butler, Central Fine Art, New York, NY, 1996
 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Spaces of Memory & Imagination, Silber Gallery, Goucher College, Towson, MD, 2023
In the Studio, New York Acadmey of Art, New York, NY, 2023
Pitches and Scripts, Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York, NY, 2023
Garden of Delight, Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York, NY, 2022
Guided by voices, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY, 2022
TANGO, Jennifer Baahng Gallery, New York, NY, 2022
MOD, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, 2022
Eraser, Ground Floor Contemporaary, Birmingham, AL, 2022
Love, Devotion, Surrender, Dedication, Rick Wester Fine Art, NY, 2021
Pause, Theodore Gallery, New York, NY, 2021
Deep States, Theodore Art, Bushwick, Boorklyn, NY, 2020
Houses in Motion, Theodore:Art, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
Drawings, ‘sindikit, Baltimore, MD, 2017
Multiple Impressions: 5th CT Printmakers Invitational, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, 2016
Restraint and Limitation, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, University of Missouri, 2017
Deux Côtés, Galerie Jean Fournier, Paris, 2017
Common Room, Lesley Heller, New York, NY, 2017
Geometrix, Curator's Office, Washington, DC, 2016
Vernacular, Theodore:Art, Bushwick, Brooklyn., NY, 2015
Paintings From Paris, Makebish, New York, NY, 2015
Exchange Rates, Theodore:Art, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, 2015
Redacted: Connecting the Dots in a Shifting Field, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, 2014
Smart Painting, Artspace, New Haven, CT, 2014.
Abstraction and Its Discontents, Storefront Ten Eyck, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, 2014
Brooklyn Bridge, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2014
Blueprint, Union College, Schenectady, NY, 2014
Clouds, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY, 2013
Skin, The Painting Center, New York, NY, 2013
Emergence, Hotel de Sauroy, Paris, France, 2013
Club Pocket Utopia, New York, NY, 2013
Necessary Strangers: Five Abstract Painters, Adventureland, Chicago, IL, 2013
Sharon L. Butler and Alison Manch, SEASON, Seattle, WA, 2012
Beyond the Bedroom, Norte Maar, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
On Display: New Abstraction, STOREFRONT, Bushwick, Brooklyn , NY, 2010
Building Consensus, Akus Gallery, Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT,2008
Cultural Identity, National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2007
All Systems Go, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY, 2006
Millennium: New Gifts and Acquisitions, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT, 2001
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1997

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, and RESIDENCIES
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY: Resident, 2018.
Creative Capital / Warhol Foundation / Follow-up Grant: Two Coats of Paint, 2016.
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY: Patricia Highsmith-Plangman Resident, 2015.
Creative Capital / Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writer Grant / Blog category, 2013-14.
Counterproof Press, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT: Artist in Residence, 2014.
Pocket Utopia, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY: Resident Artist, 2009.
Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism: Artist Fellowship, 2008.
Blue Mountain Center Artists and Writers Colony: Fellowship, 1997.
University of Connecticut: Graduate Fellowship, 1990-91.
Vermont Studio Center: Work Study Grant, 1988.
Pollock-Krasner Foundation: Grant Recipient, 1989-90.
 

VISITING ARTIST, LECTURER
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Parsons at the New School, New York, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Brown University, Providence, RI
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Penn State University, State College, PA
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Madison, WI
Minneapolis School of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Hunter College MFA Program, New York, NY
School of Visual Arts MFA Program, New York, NY
Hoffberger School of Painting, Baltimore, MD
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
Cornish College of The Arts, Seattle, WA