Jack Butler

University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Master of Fine Arts Degree - June 1979

California State University at Los Angeles, 197l-72 Master of Arts Degree - August 1972, Major in Art

California State College at Los Angeles, 1968-1970 Bachelor of Arts Degree - March 1970, Major in Art

Pasadena City College, 1965-1967 Associate of Arts Degree - 1968, Major in Art

Professor of Art, Art Department, California State University Los Angeles, California

Lecturer, Art Photography, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California

Photography Instructor, Art Department, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California

Visiting Lecturer in Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Photography Instructor, East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, California

Art Photography Instructor, UCLA Extension Los Angeles

Assistant Professor of Art, California State University at Los Angeles, Winter and Spring Quarters

Photography Instructor, South-West College Los Angeles, Fall and Spring semesters

Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles, Photography

Design Instructor, Pasadena City College, Spring and Fall Semesters, Pasadena, California

C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Grant Recipient, City of Los Angeles, CA

Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, C.S.U.L.A.

National Endowment of the Arts, Individual Photography Fellowship, Major Grant Recipient

Perception--A Field of View Jurors Award, Los Angeles

UCLA Arts Council Award

Frumkin / Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, California (25 Year survey)

Frumkin / Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Fahey / Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Cypress College Photography Gallery, Cypress, California

Gallery Min, Tokyo, Japan

Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan

Photo-tableau, Paris Vierzon, Paris, France

Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California

Lightsong Gallery, University of Arizona, Tucson

University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut

Gallery Graphics, San Diego, California

Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

CEPA Photography Gallery, Buffalo, New York

BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, California

Sandstone Graphics, Rochester, New York

Orlando Gallery, Encino, California

Orlando Gallery, Encino, California

“Self/not Selfie” Golden West College Art Gallery, October 22 – November 14

“The Polaroid Years, Instant Photography and Experimentation” The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vasser College, Box 703 124 Raymond Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12604

" 600 images/ 60 artists/ 6 curators/ 6 cities: Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Manila, Saigon " May 28 - June 25 Los Angeles selection curated by Mary Rose Mendoza, The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA

" Hot Chicks and Cool Rides", Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, April 2- May 4, Pasadena, CA

“Face To Face: Portraiture in Photography”, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

“C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowships”, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA.

“Transfictions”, Jack Butler, Eileen Cowin, Grant Mudford, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

Faculty Art Exhibition, “Art and Affinities: Sources and Influences” ,Fine Arts Gallery, California State University Los Angeles, CA.

“Extreme Prints: Developing Concepts in Print from Computer to Hand Work Images”, Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

“New Acquisitions, New Work, New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.

Faculty Art Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University Los Angeles, CA.

“Wrapped up!”, Frumkin / Duval Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA.

“Short Stories Los Angeles, digitally enhanced narratives”, The Bradbury Building, Los Angeles, CA.

“An Artful Celebration”, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, Curator: La Monte Westmoreland

"Diverse Visions: Current work by Art Faculty", California State University Los Angeles, Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, California

“LANJAE2 Exhibition”,Spanish Kitchen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

"Borders", DA Gallery, Pomona, California

“With the Media, Against the Media”, (traveling exhibition thru Curatorial Assistants), Kuhn Library and Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland

"CSLA Alumni Exhibition", Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, Curators: Shirley Cannon and Rebecca Edwards

"P.L.A.N. : Photography Los Angeles Now", Los Angeles County Muesum of Art, Los Angeles, California, Curators: Robert Sobieszek and Tim B. Wride

“With the Media, Against the Media”, (traveling exhibition thru Cuatorial Assistants), Wriston Art Center, Appelton, Wisconsin

"Gender Coordinates: Re-mapping Boundaries" CSULA Student Union Gallery, Los Angeles, California, Curators : Ali Ahmadpour and Doris Jew

Riviera Fine Arts Center, Santa Barbara, CA. Curator: Doug Bond

"Faculty Now", California State University Los Angeles, Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, California

“With the Media, Against the Media”, (traveling exhibition thru Curatorial Assistants), Stockton College, Pomona, New Jersey

"Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph,1960-1990", Traveling Exhibition with catalog and color reproductions,

Exhibition Schedule:

March-5 June 1994 Des Moines Art Center 5 Des Moines, Iowa

21 November 1993- 16 January 1994 Tampa Museum of Art Tampa, Florida

12 September - 7 November 1993 Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Montgomery, Alabama

19 June-22 August 1993 The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center San Francisco, California

13 February-11 April 1993 De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park Lincoln, Massachusetts

31 October1992-17 January 1993 Laguna Art Museum Laguna Beach, California

"The Frame: Multiplied & Extended" , Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa , California, Curator : Mark Johnstone

With the "Media", Against the "Media", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach , California, Curator : Graham Howe (Traveling exhibition from Curatorial Assistants)

Amb Els "Media”, Cotra Els "Media" (With the "Media" Against The "Media") ,Sala Arcs Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Curator: Marta Gili (in conjunction with Primavera Fotographica)

"Selections from the Graham and Susan Nash Collection" , Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Los Angeles, California

"Biennial I"; California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California

"First Person Singular: Self Portrait Photography, 1840-1987", High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

"Photography--American Art Students II"; University of California, Riverside, Selected Faculty, Rex W. Wignal Museum/Gallery, Chaffey Community College, Rancho Cucamonga, California

"Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Queens Museum; Flushing, N.Y., and Des Moines Art Center. Curators: Kathleen McCarthy Gauss and Andy Grunberg

"Cross Currents II": Recent Additions to the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California

"Exhibition 2", Gallery Min, Tokyo, Japan

"Cultural Identities", Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies,Los Angeles, California. Curator: Howard Spector

"Cultural Identities", The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Curator: Howard Spector

"Naked", Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, Colorado

"Extending the Perimeters of Twentieth- Century Photography", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

"Outspeak - Imagine There's a Future", Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, California

"Signs of the Times: Some Recurring Motifs in Twentieth-Century Photography", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,California, Curator: Deborah Irmas

"BC Chrome", BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, California

"Celebrating Two Decades In Photography: Recent Work by UCLA/MFA Recipients", Organized by Robert Heinecken, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, California

"American Photography Today 1984", School of Art, University of Denver, Colorado. Curator: Sandy Hume

"First Tallahassee Photo Invitational", University Fine Arts Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee

"International Art Competition", Los Angeles, California

"Convergence Part II", BC Space Gallery, Laguna Beach, California

"Santa Fe Film and Photo Exhibition", Santa Fe Center for Photography, Santa Fe, New Mexico

"Contemporary California Hand-Colored Photography", Palos Verdes Art Gallery, Rancho Palos Verdes, Curators: Sidney Doniger and Jean Gardner

"19th and 20th Century Assembled Photographs", Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York, Curator: Kathleen Kenyon

“Studio Work: Photographs by Ten Los Angeles Artists”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. Curator: Kathleen McCarthy Gauss

"Color as Form: A History of Color Photography", George Eastman Rochester, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Boston Mass. Curator: John Upton

"Lately in LA", Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC Curator: Kathleen McCarthy Gauss

"Light Waves, Color Photography Using Diverse Techniques", Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, Colorado

"California Colour", The Photographers Gallery, London, England Curator: Sue Davies

"Contemporary Hand Colored Photographs", De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara

"SECA Photography Invitational", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

"In Focus", Los Angeles Art Association Galleries, Los Angeles, Jurors: Shirley Burden, Don Wier

"Color: A National Invitational Photography Exhibit",Chicago,Ill.

"Perception-A Field Of View", Los Angeles, Jurors: Betty Hahn, Duane Michals and David Travis

"Attitudes, Photography in the 70's", Santa Barbara, Museum of Art; Curator: Fred Parker

"F/O Juried Photographic Exhibition", Kansas City Art Institute Juror: Joyce Neimanas

"Southern California Invitational-1979" (a PhotographicSurvey), University of Southern California; Curator: Robbert Flick

"Photographic Directions Los Angeles 1979", Security Pacific Bank Los Angeles, Cuorator: Robert Ketchum

"Polaroid Collaboration Exhibition"/Traveling Exhibition/Catalog, Open Space Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia

"DeJa Vu: Masterpieces Updated", Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California

"National Juried Post Card Art", Soho Cameraworks, Los Angeles, California

"3rd Photo Erotica Exhibition", CameraworkGallery, San Francisco California

"Beyond the Garden Wall", Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA.

"New Photographics", Central Washington State College

"Eros and Photography", Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco

Group Exhibition, Downey Art Museum, Downey, California

Group Show, University of Redlands

"Photography and Language Exhibition" - LaMamelle, Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, California

Group Show - L.A.C.P.S., Camera Works Soho Gallery, LA, CA.

California State University Los Angeles Alumni Art Show

"Photography and Sculpture" Montalvo Center for Arts Competition

"Sixth California Small Images Exhibition", Los Angeles, California

"Post Card As Art Exhibition", Santa Ana, California

The Polaroid Years, Instant Photography and Experimentation five color reproductions, Directors foreword by James Mundy

COLA 2004 Individual Artist Fellowships (catalog), color reproductions with text by Noel Korten, curator, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery

Art Week, Sept. ’04 Article, “COLA 2004 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery”, by Suvan Geer

Transfictions, Jack Butler, Eileen Cowin, Grant Mudford, (catalog with color reproductions), Text by Michelle Concalves and Shirlae Cheng

"Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph" Four color reproductions and text by Charles Desmarais

Visions Art Quarterly (Spring) Jack Butler at Fahey/Klein and With the "Media", Against the "Media", at the Long Beach Museum of Art, Color Reproduction and Article

Art Week, Feb. 21st. Article " The Death of Romance" by Lita Barrie two B/W Reproductions

Los Angeles Times , Calendar Section, Feb. 12 th. Article "Jack Butler: Uncovering Hidden Social Issues" by Suvan Geer

Amb Els "Media", Contra Els "Media" (Catalog) Six Color Reproductions and Article by Marta Gili and Graham Howe

Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, Orange County Edition Nov. 22 nd. , Two B/W Reproductions and Article

Biennial I, California Museum of Photography (Catalog), B/W Reproduction and Artists Statement

Jack Butler, Photographs, 1978-1988 (Catalog), Gallery Min, Tokyo, Japan , Thirty Color Reproductions and Six B/W Reproductions, Introduction by Kathleen McCarthy Gauss; Curator of Photography , Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Commercial Photo #302, September (9), 1988, Published by Genko-Sha, Tokyo, Japan. Article and Three B/W Reproductions

PhotoJournal Asahi Camera September,1988, Tokyo, Japan, Article,One Color and One B/W Reproduction

Japan Photo Contest Monthly, July, 1988, Article and Two Color Reproductions

An An, July 15, 1988, No. 634, Tokyo, Japan, Article and Six B/W Reproductions

Photography and Art: Interaction Since 1946, Color Reproduction

Talking Heads: What the Songs Look Like, by Frank Olinskey, Lyrics by David Byrne, Color Reproduction, Harper & Row

Cross Currents II: Recent Additions to the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Art, (Catalog), Essay by Van Deren Coke

Contemporary American Photography: Part One, Published by Min Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Five Color Reproductions

Celebrating Two Decades In Photography: Recent Work by UCLA/MFA Recipients, (Catalog) Article by James R. Hugunin, B/W Reproduction

MacMillan Biographical Encyclopedia of Photographic Artists and Innovators, Turner Browne and Elaine Partnow, New York, MacMillan, Color Reproduction

The Sunday Camera, Boulder, Colorado, Review, Color Reproduction, Show: American Photography Today

Art Week, April 1984, Review, B/W Reproduction

Exposure, Journal for the Society of Photographic Education, No. 20:4, B/W Reproduction, Article "Sex as Subject."

Images and Issues, October 1982, Review "Lately in LA," Washington D.C.

PCC Courier, October 5, B/W Reproductions, Interview

San Diego Reader, Vol. 11, #14, Review, B/W Reproduction

Hot Shoe Magazine, October, Color Reproduction Cover, Color Reproduction Inside, Review

California Colour, (Catalog) Color Reproduction

Air Cal Magazine, October, Color Reproduction

Contemporary Hand Colored Photographs, (Catalog) Color Repro.

Picture Magazine, Color Reproduction, Issue Number 17

SECA Photography Invitational, (Catalog) Color Reproduction

Art Week, November 1980, B/W Reproduction

Attitudes, Photography in the 70's, (Catalog) Color Slide Reproduction

The New Art Examiner, November 1979, B/W Reproduction

Southern California Invitational, (Catalog)

Art Week, January 1979, B/W Reproduction

Photographic Directions Los Angeles, 1979, (Catalog) Color Reproduction

Polaroid Collaboration, (Catalog)

Photography and Language, Cameraworks Press, B/W Repro.

Judge Los Angeles County Fair Photographic Exhibit

Invited by Polaroid Corporation to work on the 20x24 Polaroid Camera in New York, June 1998

Curator, “Susan Hornbeak - Ortiz”, One person exhibition of sculpture, video, sound and motion, California State University Los Angeles, Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Lecture, “Jack Butler”, California State University San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA

Curator, "Public Image/Private Focus" Group exhibition featuring the work of Jackie Alexander, Irene Fertik, Christina Fernandez, Willie Middlebrook, Carol Nye and Joe Smoke, California State University Los Angeles, Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Lecture, Los Angeles County Art Museum, Photography support group, Los Angeles, California

Lecture, "Photo-Artist: Jack Butler" Irvine Valley College, Irvine CA.

Invited by Polaroid Corporation to work on the 20x 24 Polaroid Camera in New York, April 1990

Distinguished Artists Forum "20 x 24" Polaroid Project , California State University, Fullerton, Nov. 13-17

Lecture, California Art Education Association, Mentor Teacher, " The Use of Historical Images for Contemporary Teaching " Costa Mesa, California

Photography Exhibition Judge, Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles , California

Photography Exhibition Judge, Los Angeles County Fair, August 10, L.A. Fair Grounds, Pomona California

Lecture "Jack Butler, 1978-1988", July 9, Gallery Min, Tokyo, Japan

Lecture "Jack Butler, 1978-1988", July 15, Museum of Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan

Curator: "Collective Vision", An Inaugural Exhibition, Exhibit Center, University Student Union, California State University, Los Angeles, May, 1987

Co-Coordinator with Graham Howe, 20/20 "Twenty Twenty", Portfolio of UCLA MFA Photography Graduates

Lecture, "Jack Butler: Recent Work", Society for Photographic Education, Regional Convention, Lake Tahoe, Nevada

Co-Curator with Kenda North, "Raoul Gradvohl Hollywood L.A.",University of California Riverside Art Gallery, Riverside,Calif.

Curator, "Anne Noggle", California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California

"Cibachrome Workshop", Colorado Mountain College, Breckenridge, Colorado, Summer Program in Photography

"Non-Silver Workshop, Expanding the Photograph", UCLA

Lecture, "Jack Butler, The Excitable Pages Series", University of California at Santa Barbara

Non-Silver Workshop, co-taught with Suda House,

Curator: "Maid in L.A.", Joyce Neimanas Exhibition for Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies at Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art

Non-Silver Workshop, co-taught with Suda House,

Non-Silver Workshop, co-taught with Suda House,

Board Member- Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies

California Museum of Photography

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA

Downey Museum of Art

La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art

Georges Pompidou National Center for Art & Culture, Paris, France

Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan

Graham and Susan Nash Collection

Aaron Spelling Collection

Graham and Susan Nash Collection

Seattle Art Museum

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago

Numerous other Private Collections

Sherry Frumkin Gallery
Studio 21
3026 Airport Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90405

Currently Unrepresented