13 Facts About Sharon Butler

Sharon Butler was born on 1959 and is an American artist and arts writer.

Sharon Butler is known for teasing out ideas about contemporary abstraction in her art and writing, particularly a style she called "new casualism" in a 2011 essay.

Sharon Butler has said that at the root of her art practice is an effort to understand the relationship between emotion and intellect.

Sharon Butler was born in New London, Connecticut, and moved to New York City in the late 1980s.

Sharon Butler has shown her work internationally at galleries in Baltimore, Birmingham, Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago, Hartford, Miami, London, Los Angeles, Paris, New York, Seattle, Tuscaloosa, and other cities.

Jennifer Baahng Gallery, Theodore:Art, Pocket Utopia, and SEASON are among the galleries with which Sharon Butler has been affiliated.

Sharon Butler's work is in collections at the William Benton Museum of Art, Eastern Connecticut State University, Southern New Hampshire University, and has been published in the Harvard Review.

Sharon Butler's essays have been published in The Brooklyn Rail, Gulf Coast, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, The American Prospect, and other publications.

Sharon Butler was inducted into the AICA-USA organization for art critics in 2023.

In 2011, in an essay called Abstract Painting: The New Casualists, published in The Brooklyn Rail, Sharon Butler coined the term "casualism" for a new type of abstraction that featured a self-amused, anti-heroic style with an interest in off-kilter composition and impermanence.

Sharon Butler suggested that artists' interest in irresolution reflected wider insights about culture and society.

Sharon Butler has received residencies from Art21, New York, NY, Counterproof Press, Yaddo, and the Cultural Space Subsidy Program.

Sharon Butler was inducted into American Abstract Artists in 2023.