Kathy Butterly is a New York-based artist known for her distinctive ceramic sculptures that combine a painterly sensibility with inventive, organic form. Her works feature richly layered glazes and delicate surfaces, blending influences from Asian ceramics and California Funk. Born in 1963 in Amityville, New York, she earned her BFA from Moore College of Art and her MFA from the University of California, Davis, studying with Robert Arneson. Her work is held in major museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and the de Young Museum. Butterly has received numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Smithsonian American Art Museum Artist Award, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, and inclusion in the Carnegie International.