Yuan Butler

Part-time Faculty, Art
School of Liberal Arts|Visual and Performing Arts

Contact Information

Email

ybutler1@ggc.edu

About

Biography

Yuan Butler earned her MFA in painting from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including at Coca-Cola Headquarter, Marietta Cobb Art Museum, Shug Gallery in UK, Huifeng Art Museum in Shanghai China, and solo exhibition at Mason Fine Art. She has been recognized and featured in renowned New American Paintings and Create! Magazine. Butler was awarded residency at SCAD as Presidential Alumni Atelier Ambassador in 2025. She also received Award for Excellence by a part-time faculty in School of Liberal Arts at Georgia Gwinnett College, the Cecile Adler Cliffer Memorial Cutting-Edge Award from National Association of Women Artists, among other honors and awards.

Education

  • Master's – painting – Savannah College of Art and Design
  • Bachelor's – English language and literature education – Changsha Science and Technology University

Academic Interests

  • Abstract art
  • Modernism and the feminine voice
  • Ambiguity in art
  • Psychology

Distinctions

  • Presidential Award of Residency as SCAD Alumni Amelia Ambassador, 2025
  • Award for Excellence by a Part-time faculty in School of Liberal Arts at Georgia Gwinnett College, 2025
  • Certificate of Honor as an outstanding instructor, in recognition of active participation in "China-Us" integration joint exhibition of excellent students' works, 2025
  • Cecile Adler Cliffer Memorial Cutting-Edge Award in the 135th Annual NAWA exhibition, New York, US, 2024
  • Honor of Excellent Instructor, FSU-HUTB Undergraduates Summer drawing course, Changsha, China, 2024
  • Medal of Creativity, "Power to the Patient," Poster competition, NY, 2022

Publications

  • Create!Magazine, Of Land and Longing, 2025
  • New American Paintings, MFA Issue 171, 2025
  • "Diamagnetic Suspension", ChinaTribu, 2023
  • Visionary Art Collective, New York, NY, 2022
  • All She Makes, New York, NY, 2021
  • I Like Your Work Podcast, Boston, MA, 2020

Recent Exhibitions

  • Solo exhibition, Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, 2025
  • Shug Gallery, Norwich, UK, 2025
  • Hudgens Center for Art and Learning, Duluth, GA, 2025
  • One Art Space, New York, NY, 2025
  • Spruill Gallery, Dunwoody, GA, 2025
  • Honeycomb, The Pollinator Art Space, Atlanta, GA, 2024
  • "In the beginning," Quinlan Arts Center, Gainesville, GA, 2024
  • Marietta Cobb Art Museum, Marietta, GA, 2024
  • “Unconditional Love,”  Suwanee Arts Center, Suwanee, GA, 2024
  • Work featured in Asian Pacific American Heritage exhibition, Coca Cola headquarters, Atlanta, GA, 2023
  • Solo exhibition, Digital Screen, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA, 2023
  • Solo exhibition "Diamagnetic Suspension," Mason Fine Art, GA, 2022
  • “Spring Forward” juried show,  Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, 2022
  • Four people exhibition “Aliens,” Mason Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, 2022
  • Group exhibition "Voice of Silence," H Foundation, LA, 2022
  • Finalist, Art Nova100 exhibition, Beijing, China, 2022
  • "Forbidden Fruit," Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, 2021
  • Group exhibition "Moments like this," Chicago, IL, 2021
  • Group exhibition, Visionary Art Collective, NY, 2021
  • Featured in Issue 28, Artmazemag, London, United Kingdom, 2021
  • Open studio exhibition, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA, 2020
  • “Touch,” Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA, 2020
  • “Summer Serendipity,” Johns Creek Art Center, Johns Creek Art Center, GA, 2019
  • Group exhibition, Alpharetta Art Center, Alpharetta, GA, 2019
  • Group exhibition, Johns Creek Art Center, Johns Creek, GA, 2019
  • “Impression,” HuiFeng Art Museum, Shanghai Pudong, China, 2019
  • “Blank,” Hangzhou QiYuan Art Gallery, Hangzhou, China, 2017

Professional Affiliations

  • College Art Association
  • SECAC