Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, Scholarship
1972
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, Purchase Award for Sculpture and Student Jury Award for Sculpture
1973
M.F.A., University of California, Davis, CA
1977
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship
1980
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1980
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship
Exhibitions
2007
“Deborah Butterfield: Horses,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV (solo)
2007
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA (solo)
2006
Tucson Museum of Art, AZ (solo)
2006
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN (solo)
2006
LA Louver, Venice, CA (solo)
2006
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2005
Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida (solo)
2005
University Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
2005
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle
2005
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
2004
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2004
The Contemporary Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
2004
Roberta Lieberman: A Sharp Eye: An Art Dealer’s 40 Year Journey, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
2003
Expanded Horizons, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
2003
Deborah Butterfield: Recent Sculpture, Edward Thorp Gallery, NY, NY
2003
Deborah Butterfield, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002
Sculpture, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
2002
Fast Forward II, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California,
2001
The Wild West, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishoj, Denmark
2001
The Lenore and Burton Gold Collection of 20th Century Art,
2000
International Festival of Contemporary Sculpture Monte-Carlo, Monaco
2000
Edward Thorpe Gallery New York, NY
1999
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Chicago, IL
1999
"Animal", Musée Bourdelle Paris, France
1997
"Two in Montana: Deborah Butterfield and John Buck, Sculpture and Woodblock Prints", San Jose Museum of Art San Jose, CA
1997
Greg Kucera Gallery Seattle, WA
1996
San Diego Museum of Art San Diego, CA
1996
Grant Park, Outdoor Exhibition Chicago, IL
1994
Gallery Paule Anglim San Francisco, CA
1992
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami Coral Gables, FL
1989
Gallery Paule Anglim San Francisco, CA
1989
The Denver Art Museum Denver, Colorado
1989
The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, "The Nature of the Beast".
1987
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY.
1987
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA "The Bay Area Collects: A Focus on Sculpture"
1987
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cinncinati, Ohio, "Standing Ground:Sculpture by American Women"
1987
Whitney Museum at Philip Morris Sculpture Court New York, NY
1986
"Call of the Wild", Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art Providence, RI
1986
Contemporary Art Center Honolulu, Hawaii
1985
"The Horse in 20th Century Art", Nicola Jacobs Gallery London, England
1985
"Iowa Collects", Des Moines Art Center Des Moines, Iowa
1984
O.K. Harris Works of Art New York, NY
1984
Matthews Hamilton Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. "Naturlich".
1983
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Winston-Salem, NC
1983
Oakland Museum Oakland, CA
1982
Mayor Gallery London, England
1982
"100 Years of California Sculpture", The Oakland Museum Oakland, CA
1981
Isreal Museum Jerusalem, Isreal
1981
ARCO Center for the Visual Arts Los Angeles, CA
1980
"3-D Invitational Exhibit", Carnegie-Mellon University Pittsburg, PA
1979
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "The Decade in Review: Selections from the 1970's"
1978
"The Presence of Nature", Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
1977
"Seventy-sixth Exhibition of Chicago and Vicinity", Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL
1977
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL.
1976
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI.
1974
University Museum, Berkeley, CA. "Two Sculptors: Deborah Butterfield and Rudy Serra".
1973
I.C. Nelson Gallery, University of California at Davis, "M.F.A.
1973
Pan Gallery, Chico, CA. "The Great Variety of Northern California Art".
1972
American Craft Council Gallery, New York, NY. "First Southwest Region Exhibition".
1972
San Francisco State College, San Francisco, CA. "The Sacramento Valley".
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS The Atlanta Richfield Company, Los Angeles, CA The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Clise Properties, 7th and Olive Building, Seattle The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington DC The Institute of Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Israel Museum, Jerusalem Meijer Sculpture Gardens, Grand Rapids, MI The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL The Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA Principal Financial Group, Des Moines, IA San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, CA Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan The University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Yale University, New Haven, CT
Literature
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