Benjamin Butler (b.1975, Westmoreland, Kansas) lives and works in Vienna, Austria. He has exhibited extensively in the United States, Europe and Asia. He is jointly represented by Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York and Tomio Koyama Gallery in Tokyo. Butler’s exhibitions have been reviewed in many publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, and Art in America.

Benjamin Butler has become well known for a repeated use of trees, forests, and landscapes in his paintings. This repetition of motif, coupled with varying levels of abstraction, allows him to make paintings that are freed of concern for ‘subject matter’. Additionally, his work exudes a sensitivity to the accessibility and familiarity that the history of landscape painting provides. For the past two decades, the artist has reinvented his subjects through systematic process, brushwork, color, composition, and surface. Butler is exploring the limits of abstraction and representation in painting while weighing pictorial beauty against conceptual restraint.