Sharon Butler makes multi-panel paintings that are monumental compilations of smaller solo works, embracing the history of painting and abstraction in novel and provocative ways by way of idiosyncratic conjunctions and addenda. They resound with color, texture, and light, which illuminate Butler’s process while also establishing compositional formality, tactile physicality, and emotional resonance. Insofar as the canvases are liberal re-imaginings of pixelated images originally made in a phone app, they retain an expressively vibrational quality.

Her solo exhibitions at galleries in New York City have been reviewed in New York Magazine, Hyperallergic, artcritical, The New Criterion, The James Kalm Report, and Time Out New York, among other publications. She has been awarded grants from Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and Eastern Connecticut State University, and held residencies at Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, Pocket Utopia, and Counterproof Press. Butler has served as a visiting professor, artist at many universities and currently teaches in the MFA program at the New York Academy of Art.

She lives and works in New York City.