Solo Exhibitions
2020 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019 Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2017 Horses, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
New Sculpture, Danese/Corey, New York, NY
Three Sorrows, LA Louver, Venice, CA
2016 Heart Butte, LA Louver, Venice, CA
New Sculpture, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Horses, The Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando, FL
2015 The Nature of Horses, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, CO
2014 Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
New Sculpture, Danese/Corey, New York, NY
2013 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2012 Essence: The Horses of Deborah Butterfield, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
New Sculptures, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
2011 Seven Bronzes, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
New Sculpture, Danese, New York, NY
2010 Equine Muse: Deborah Butterfield, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
New Sculpture, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 LA Louver Gallery, Venice, California
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2008 New Sculpture, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Selected Group Shows
2020 45 At 45, LA Louver, Venice, CA
Uncaged: Animals in the Collection, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2019 Billings, Tiniworks Art, Bozeman, MT
Landscape Without Boundaries, Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, Davis, CA
2018 Art in the Garden, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
Photogram: Work by Former Faculty and Staff from the MSU School of Art, Helen E. Copeland Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
2017 Hvferfing / Shapeshifting, Verksmiðjan á Hjalteyri, Center for Contemporary Art, North Iceland
No Boundaries, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
2016 BAM Biennial 2016: Metalmorphosis, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA
Stories in Sculpture: Selections from the Walker Art Center Collection, Denver Botanical Gardens, Denver, CO
2015 A Studio in Iceland, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Retrospective, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2014 Make: A New Museum for UC Davis, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
A Contemporary Bestiary, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR
2013 Celebrating Two Decades: The Peggy and Eric Lieber Collection and Other Gifts, Fredrick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2012 A Legacy of Giving: The Anna & Frank Hall Collection, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Behold! America: Frontiers, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
John Buck and Deborah Butterfield: Horse & Rider, Holter Museum of Art, Helena Montana
2011 American Gothic Regionalist Portraiture from the Collection, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
Montana Women in the Visual Arts, Emerson Center for the Arts & Culture, Bozeman, MT
2010 Equine Devine, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY
Double Vision: Partners in Art, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT
Divergence: The Work of John Baldessari, Deborah Butterfield, and Andrea Zittel, San Diego State University Downtown Gallery, San Diego, CA
The Secret Language of Animals, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Homelands: How Women Made the West, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Gifts to Montana: The Legacy of Miriam Sample, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Maverick Art, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
2007cRange: Deborah Butterfield, C.S. Prince, Theodore Waddell, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
2006 Contemporary Sculpture, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
2005 Making Connections, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Figure it Out, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2004 Best of the West, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Sculpture from the Walla Walla Foundry, Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
Picasso to Thiebaud: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collections of Stanford University Alumni and Friends, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford CA
Selected Awards
2022 International Sculpture Center Lifetime Achievement Award
Selected Public Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California
Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York
Institute of Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, District of Columbia
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, District of Columbia