Deborah Butterfield (art studio, B.A., ’71, M.F.A., ’73) has received a 2022 International Sculpture Center Lifetime Achievement Award. Best known for her large sculptures of horses of wood, scrap metal and bronze her work has been shown widely.

Butterfield has had solo exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami; San Diego Museum of Art; and the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida. Her work is in the collections of museums including the Art Institute of Chicago; The Brooklyn Museum; Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Butterfield is featured in the current issue and on the cover of Sculpture Magazine and has a solo exhibition at Marlborough Gallery in New York. Her sculpture “John” can be seen at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art and a solo exhibition of her work is scheduled for the museum next year.

The Sculpture Center established the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1991 to recognize individual sculptors who are masters of sculptural processes and techniques and have made exemplary contributions to the field of sculpture.