Sharon Butler has received numerous grants, awards and residencies, including a Pollock Krasner Foundation grant, and her paintings are included in private collections in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Baltimore, Tampa, Philadelphia, Providence, London, Berlin and Kyoto.

She has exhibited at John Davis Gallery (Hudson, NY), Platform (New York, NY), Pocket Utopia (Brooklyn, NY), STOREFRONT (Brooklyn, NY), Edward Winkleman (New York, NY), and has upcoming shows at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT and Season in Seattle, WA.  

Butler maintains the award-winning art blog Two Coats of Paint, and is a contributing writer at The Brooklyn Rail. She is a professor of art at Eastern Connecticut State University, and is currently on a leave of absence to pursue other projects.

She divdes her time between New York City, Washington, DC, and her hometown in Connecticut.

Education:
Tufts University, BA, art history
Massachusetts College of Art, BFA, painting
University of Connecticut, MFA, art