Eugenia P. Butler
Born 1947 Washington, D.C.
Died 2008 Santa Rosa, CA
EDUCATION
1968 University of California, Berkeley, BA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
That Which Emerges, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Arc of an Idea: Chasing the Invisible, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
1998
To the Light, Through the Light, Dirt Gallery
Flowing Fields, Gallerie Paradiso, Costa Mesa, CA
1993
The Kitchen Table Art LA/93
1991
Studio Exhibition, Rotterdam, Holland
Studio Exhibition, Dusseldorf, Germany
1990
Wildcard, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1969
Eugenia Butler, Eugenia Butler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1968
Negative Space Hole, Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Frieze Art Fair, exhibited by The Box, New York, NY
2016
impromptu, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Independent Art Fair, exhibited by The Box, New York, NY
Book of Lies, hosted by Corazon del Sol, Booklyn, March 6th, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Let Power Take a Female Form, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Book of Lies, 356 S. Mission Road, July 11-12, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Surface Color Light, Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Six Degrees, Side Street Projects and private curators, Mark Taper Auditorium, LAPL
United Minds, Tampere House, Finland
Bowery 12 Pack, Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA
Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
First Artist Devotional Shop, Kunstmuseum Karlsruhe Kunstverein, Freiburg, Germany
2000
Global Art curated by Jurgen Harten, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany
Hokey Pokey, Dirt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Between Reality and Abstraction, various US museums
1999
Small Works, The Atrium, Los Angeles, CA
The Book of Lies, Luckman Gallery, Cal State University, Los Angeles, CA
Black Mountain West Charter Year, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Last Spring, Dirt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Between Reality and Abstraction, various US museums
1998
The Book of Lies, mid-project survey exhibition, Fullerton College, CA
Group exhibition, Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Book of Lies, Form Zero Books
Book of Lies, featured in Artists Books & Multiples, Brisbane, Australia
Book of Lies, volume II, Dirt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Book of Lies, The Living Room Contemporary Projects
Tales of Los Angeles, Couturier Gallery
Between Reality and Abstraction, various US museums
1997
Between Reality and Abstraction, Reading Museum, Pennsylvania, international traveling survey exhibition of California artists.
Positionen US-amerikanischer Kunst der 90er, Vienna, Galerie am Molkersteig
Artists Books, Book of Lies, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
100 for 100, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Erster KunstlerDevotionalienShop, Pozzo Pozozza, Berlin, Germany
L.A. Slide, The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA; & Gallery 25, Fresno, CA
1996
In the Pocket, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, Austria
Book of Lies, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, Austria
Drawn from L.A. curated by Jay Bellolli, Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
A Month of Sundays, Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Book of Lies, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Open Book, Book of Lies, Kellog University Gallery, Cal State University, Pomona, CA
Green curated by Matt Gleason, F.P. Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Downtown Comes Uptown curated by Molly Barnes, Los Angeles
Dreams of Life and Death, The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA
California Art at the End of the Century, New Orleans Museum, LA
1995
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1994
Exquisite Drawing / Lines of Transmission, Glasgow, Scotland
1993
A Simple Complex curated by John O’Brien, M.Y.T.H., Los Angeles, CA
Sensation, Punch Gallery
A Time Capsule for the 21st Century
1991
Prototype, Gottfried Hagen Foundation, Cologne, Germany
1989
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gallery 451, Earl McGrath
1988
Multiples, Asher/Fraure Gallery
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Multiple Form, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
1987
Fantastic curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Lannan Foundation
Asher/Fraure Gallery
1986
Cobalt Blue, Attack Gallery
1985
Angeles Gallery
Apocalypse II, Larry Whitley Gallery
1984
Curated by Joan Simon, Functional Art Gallery
Apocalypse I, Larry Whitley Gallery
1981-88
Willoughby Sharpe Gallery, New York, NY
1970
Concept Art (with Huebler, Kosuth, Weiner, Asher), San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1969
Kinzeption/Conception curated by Konrad Fischer, Luverkusen State Museum, Germany
Conception / Perception, Eugenia Butler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Arte Conceptuelle, Paris, France
1968
Prospeckt Documenta curated by Jurgen Harten and Harald Szeemann
Electric Art, Wight Gallery at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts at the Armand Hammer Museum, UCLA
Los Angeles Museum of Art, Works on Paper Collection, and the Decorative Arts Collection
The New York Public Library
The Sackner Collection, Florida
Cal State University, Long Beach
Saks Fifth Avenue, Los Angeles
Skhole Corporation, Tokyo
Oliver Peoples Corporation
SITE-SPECIFIC SCULPTURES
1997 Tarzana Child Care Center, Los Angeles, CA
1994 A Rube Goldberg Machine, Long Beach, CA
1993 A Lovers’ Bench for the New Millennium, Long Beach, CA
1991 Energy Well + A Quiet Zen Machine, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Fish Vessel + Visit to Antares + Fata Morgana in Realtime, Tokyo, Japan
PROFESSORSHIPS
1987-2001 Lecturer and Graduate / Undergraduate Advisor, Academic Division
2001 Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles, Extension
2000 Lecturer, Fire in the Library
1997-2001 Cal State University, Northridge, Department of Art
1995-1999 Associate Professor, Southern California Institute of Architecture
Adjunct Professor, Cal State University, Los Angeles, Liberal Studies Department Art for Non Majors, Visiting Professor Fire in the Library
1985-1987 Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles, Extension
GRANTS AND HONORS
2000
California Council for the Humanities Miajor-Grant
Pollock-Krasner Fellowship
1999
Creative Capital Grant Finalist
California Council for the Humanities Mini-Grant
1998
Foundation for Art Resources Grant
Faculty Research Assistant Grant, SCI-Arc
1996-97
Cultural Grant, Council District 11
The Book of Lies funded by Grants from the LEF and Graham Foundation
1995-96
Public Access Press Grant, SCI-Arc
1994
Works on Paper Award, Riviera Fine Arts Center
1993
The Lovers Bench funded by grants from the NEA and Warhol Foundation
Anderson Ranch Scholarship
1992-93
Short list Gottlieb Grant
1991
Visiting Artist Award, Rotterdam Arts Council
1990
Fellowship, Dorland Foundation
