Born 1975 in Westmoreland, Kansas.

Lives and works in Vienna, Austria.


Education

MFA in Painting, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2000

Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1998

BFA, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS, 1997


Solo Exhibitions


2022 Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Lake Gosau , New York, NY

2020 Tomio Koyama Gallery,  Two-Tones, Monochromes, and Other Landscapes, Tokyo

2019 Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Silver/Landscapes, New York, NY

2018 Galerie Martin Janda, Recent Trees and Monochromes, Vienna, Austria

2018 Aura Gallery, Beijing, China

2016 Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Forest(s), New York, NY

2016 Tomio Koyama Gallery, Trees Alone, Tokyo, Japan

2015 Galerie Martin Janda, Another Tree, Another Forest, Vienna, Austria

2014 Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Green Forest, New York, NY

2014 Tomio Koyama Gallery, Selected Trees, Tokyo, Japan

2013 Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, In the Midst, Between, Betwixt, London, England

2012 Galerie Martin Janda, Benjamin Butler: Pastels, Vienna, Austria

2012 Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Some Trees, New York, NY

2010 Tomio Koyama Gallery, Paintings and Drawings 2010, Tokyo, Japan

2009 Galerie Martin Janda, These Trees, Vienna, Austria

2008 Lora Reynolds Gallery, Dark and Leafless, Austin, TX

2007 Galerie Michael Zink, New Trees, Berlin, Germany

2007 Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, New Trees, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2007 Tomio Koyama Gallery, Leafless Trees and Sakura, Tokyo, Japan

2006 Lora Reynolds Gallery, New Trees and Forests, Austin, TX

2005 Groeflin Maag Galerie, Paintings, Basel, Switzerland

2005 Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, New Paintings, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2005 Team Gallery, Forest’s Edge, New York, USA

2004 Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Tree Alone, Vienna, Austria

2004 Team Gallery, Trees, New York, NY, USA

2003 Tomio Koyama Gallery, Little Mountain, Project Room, Tokyo, Japan

2003 Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Early Spring, Toronto, Canada

2002 Team Gallery, Mountain Paintings, New York, NY, USA


Group Exhibitions


2022 Forest Through the Trees, Laumeier Sculpture Park,St. Louis, MO

2022 87 Franklin Inaugural, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, NYC

2022 Contemporary-ism, Objet d'art, Tokyo

2021 Works on View, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, NYC

2020 Jochen Hempel Gallery,  Leipzig/Ludlow, Leipzig, Germany (w/ Bastian Muhr)

2020 Klaus von Nichtssagend,  Ludlow/Leipzig, NYC (w/ Bastian Muhr)

2019 Bortolami Gallery, sotto voce, curated by Robert Bordo, NYC

2019 “Globe as a Palette; Contemporary Art from The Taguchi Art Collection” Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art/ Kushiro Art Museum/ Hakodate Museum of Art/ Sapporo Art Museum, Hokkaido, Japan

2018  Vin Vin,  Uncanny Valley, curated by Francis Ruyter, Vienna, Austria

2017 The Secret Life of Plants, curated by Jennifer Coates and Nick Lawrence, Freight + Volume, NYC

2016 New Space, Grand Exhibition Opening, Aura Gallery, Beijing, China

2016 Three Paths to the Lake, Galerie Martin Janda,Vienna, Austria

2014 Verzweigt, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg (DE)

2014 Short, Galerie Martin Janda, Wien (AT)

2013 Intersection- Contemporary Abstraction And Figuration, TAM, Torrance (US)

2013 XYZ Collective, Imprisoned, Jailbreak, Tokyo, Japan

2013 Fine Arts Gallery, VCU, Land Ho!, curated by Holly Coulis & Ridley Howard, Richmond, VA

2012 Anna Kustera Gallery, Disappearing Acts (Act II), New York, NY

2012 Andrew Edlin Gallery, B-Out, curated by Scott Hug, New York, NY

2012 Bill Brady/KC, East West Shift to the Middle Part II, Kansas City, MO

2010 Klaus von Nichtssagend, Leafless: Glen Baldridge & Benjamin Butler, NYC

2010 Tomio Koyama Gallery, Collections-March, Kyoto, Japan

2009 Lora Reynolds Gallery, Mark Making: Dots, Lines, and Curves, Austin, TX

2009 Galerie Martin Janda, Dark Side of the Moon, Vienna, Austria

2008 Lora Reynolds Gallery, Summer Show, Austin, Texas, USA

2008 Illingworth Kerr Gallery, The Big Gift, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

2008 Geoffrey Young Gallery, Narcissus, Great Barrington, MA, USA

2008 ATM Gallery, Anne Eastman & Benjamin Butler, New York, NY, USA

2008 Tomio Koyama Gallery, Daikanyama Group Show, Tokyo, Japan

2007 EFA Gallery, Horizon, curated by David Humphrey, New York, NY, USA

2007 Southfirst Gallery, Landscapes, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2007 Thrust Projects, Inside the Pale, curated by Frank Schroder, New York, NY, USA

2006 Nerman Museum/Epsten Gallery, Homecoming, Overland Park, Kansas, USA

2006 Galerie Michael Zink, Approaching Landscape, Munich, Germany

2006 Greenberg van Doren, Palette, curated by Augusto Arbizo, New York, NY, USA

2006 Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Group Show, Los Angeles, USA

2006 Shane Campbell Gallery, Group Show, Oak Park, IL, USA

2006 Lora Reynolds Gallery, Summer Group Show, Austin, TX, USA

2006 Monya Rowe Gallery, AIR, curated by Amy Sillman, New York, NY, USA

2006 Galleria Glance, Benjamin Butler, Holly Coulis, Ridley Howard, Turin, Italy

2005 Sixtyseven, Hello Sunday, curated by Holly Coulis, New York, NY, USA

2005 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Devil’s Punchbowl, curated by Katharina Grosse, Santa Monica, CA

2005 Printed Matter, On the Beach, curated by Justin Lowe, New York, NY, USA

2005 Groeflin Maag Galerie, Honeymoon with Romeo, curated by Holly Coulis, Basel, Switzerland

2005 P.S.1., Greater New York, New York, USA

2005 Illinois State University, Sad Songs, curated by Bill Congers, Normal, IL, USA

2004 Champion Fine Art, where do we come from, what are we? where are we going?, curated by Katherine Bernhardt, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2004 Elizabeth Dee Gallery, A.C., New York, NY, USA

2004 Rove/Kenny Schachter, Five Artist Shows, London, UK

2004 Geoffrey Young Gallery, Full Disclosure, Great Barrington, MA, USA

2004 Allston Skirt Gallery, Beat the Reaper, curated by Joe Bradley, Boston, MA, USA

2003 Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Greetings from New York, New Abstraction, Salzburg, Austria

2003 Grimm/Rosenfeld Galerie, Game Over, Munich, Germany

2003 678 Echo Park Avenue, The Larger Room, curated by Mari Eastman, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2002 Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Inaugural Exhibition, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2000 Alternative Space, Electraslip Knife, curated by Stephanie Campos, Chicago, IL, USA

1999 Studio 870, long cold winter in an endlessnameless, curated by Slater Bradley, Jay Batlle and Amy Sarkisian, Los Angeles, CA, USA


Writing

2016 Benjamin Butler on Alex Katz, Harper’s Bazaar Art (China), July 29, 2016


Teaching

 2012 Visiting Professor, Cooper Union, Basic & Advanced Drawing, Fall Semester
2012 Visiting Artist, Maryland Institute College of Art, Individual and Group Studio Visits 2012 Visiting Professor, Cooper Union, Advanced Painting & Drawing, Spring Semester 2011 Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, Graduate Relief Printmaking, Fall Semester 2011 Visiting Professor, Cooper Union, Advanced Painting & Drawing, Spring Semester 2007 Visiting Artist (3 week session), Cooper Union
2006 Visiting Artist, Individual Studio Visits, NYU MFA Program
2005 Visiting Artist, Individual Studio Visits, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2005 Visiting Artist, Individual Studio Visits, Northwestern University MFA Program
2000 TA Position, Visiting Artist’s Program Student Director, SAIC
1999 Instructor, Beginning Drawing, SAIC
1998 Emporia Arts Council, Instructor, Painting/Drawing
1997 Emporia Arts Council, Instructor, Painting/Drawing 


Selected Artist Talks and Lectures

2018 Artist Lecture, Judith Eisler’s painting class Univ. fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna 2015 Artist Talk, Juliet Jacobson’s drawing class, NYU, New York
2014 Artist Studio Talk, Judith Eisler’s painting class Univ. fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna     

2012 Artist Talk (w/ Ridley Howard at Klaus), Virginia Commonwealth University 2011 Lecturer, Professional Practices (w/ Rob Hult), Rhode Island School of Design 2011 Artist Talk, Cooper Union, School of Art
2010 Artist Talk, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 

2008 Artist Talk, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2007 Artist Talk, Cooper Union, Advanced Painting
2006 Artist Talk, NYU MFA Program
2005 Artist Talk, Cal State Los Angeles, BFA Program
2005 Artist Talk, Northwestern University, MFA Program
2005 Artist Talk, The School of the Art Insititute of Chicago
2004 Panel Discussion on Painting, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
2003 Artist Talk, Emporia State University, BFA Program (Outstanding Recent Graduate) 








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