The work has been shown since 1980 and reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, Art News, Whitehot Magazine, Bomb Magazine, Sculpture Magazine, among others including The New Yorker, and The New York Times.
2019 “Being Close”, Aidron Duckworth Art Museum
2017 At The Galleries, “The Unseen Hand”, The New Yorker (April 3rd)
2016 D’Agostino, Paul, “Out : In :: In : Out ::” Studio 10
2015 D’Agostino, Paul, “Astir” Rafius Fane Gallery, Boston (December)
Dale, Mara, “Astir”, Whitehot Magazine (December)
D’Agostino, P., “View Inside: Tom Butter”, Art Interviews: New York
2004 Carducci, V., “Tom Butter” Sculpture Magazine (March)
2001 Brockington, H., “Uncommonly Familiar: The Sculpture of Tom Butter and Gary Justis”, NY Arts
2000 Zimmer, William, “Drawing in the Present Tense”, The New York Times
1998 Canning, Susan M., Sculpture Magazine (May / June)
Magill, Mark., “Tom Butter”, Bomb Magazine, Fall 1998, pp. 100-102
Spring, Justin., “Tom Butter, Curt Marcus Gallery”, Artforum, May 1998, pp. 148-9
1997 Tom Butter, Marcus Gallery, The New Yorker (January 22- 29)
Johnson, Ken, “Review” The New York Times (November 28)
1994 Melrod, George, review, Sculpture, Jan - Feb 1994, p. 52
1992 Kurtz, Bruce D., "Sculpture of the 1980s," Contemporary Art 1965-1990 Pentice Hall, Inc., (pp. 210, 223)
1993 Princenthal, Nancy, "Tom Butter at Curt Marcus Gallery" Art In America, December issue (p.97-8)
1991 Brenson, Michael, "Tom Butter," (review) The New York Times (March 1)
Melrod, George, "Tom Butter at Curt Marcus,"Art In America, May issue (pp. 171)
1990 Hayt-Atkins, Elizabeth, "The Anxiety of Influence”, Contemporanea, 09/1990, (p. 67-73)
1989 Heartney, Eleanor, “Tom Butter,” ArtNews, (review), March issue (p. 173)
1988 Barasch, Amy, "Curt Marcus Gallery," 7 Days (July 27)
Boyd, Julia, "American Abstraction Now," ICA Virginia Museum, Richmond (catalogue)
Huntington, Richard “Review” , “Four Sculptors,” Buffalo Courier Express (April 6)
Johnson, Patricia, review of “Inside/Outside” Houston Chronicle (December 17)
Kimmelman, Michael , “Tom Butter,”(review) The New York Times (December 23)
1987 Rubinstein, M.R., Wiener, D., “Sites & Sights: On Walter De Maria, Jeff Koons, and Tom Butter.” Arts, (March issue) p. 20–21
Baker, Kenneth, "Review," San Francisco Chronicle (December 24)
“Minimalism and Runway Wit," San Francisco Chronicle, ( July 11) p. 38
Dreishpoon, Douglas, review of Curt Marcus Show, Arts Magazine, (January issue)
Kaplan, Stephen, "Head, Heart, and Hands," Artfinder, (Spring issue)
“Review” The Buffalo News, (April 23rd)
Miller, Donald,"17 Sculptors Give 'Perspectives' in CMU Show" Post Gazette, (January 9th)
Porges, Maria F., review of John Berggruen exhibition, ArtWeek, (December 26th)
1986 Madoff, Steven Henry, "Sculpture Unbound," Artnews, (November issue)
Jarmush, Ann, review of L. Oliver show, Artnews, (April issue)
“Album," Arts Magazine, (October issue)
“Review,” San Francisco Chronicle, (October 21st)
1985 Forgey, Benjamin, “Prismatic Showcase” The Washington Post, (April 25)
Stein, Judith, “Tom Butter: Sculpture”, InLiquid, Philadelphia, (November)
1984 Braff, Phyllis, "From the Studio," The East Hampton Star, (April 26th)
Kramer, Kathy, “Lifesigns," Arts Magazine, (February issue)
Goodman, Marilyn J. S., review of L. Oliver show, New Art Examiner, (June issue)
Donahoe, Victoria review of L. Oliver show, Philadelphia Inquirer, (April 14th)
Lichtenstein, Therese, review of Borgenicht show, Arts Magazine, (November issue)
Martin, Richard, review of Borgenicht show, Arts Magazine, (November issue)
Raynor, Vivien, review of “Totem” The New York Times, (February 17th)
Prestin, Malcolm, "Offbeat Sculpture at Guild Hall" Newsday, (April 24th)
Messinger, Lisa, "Notable Acquisitions 1982-84," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1983 Brenson, Michael, "Critic's Choice," The New York Times, (August 21st)
Donahoe, Victoria, review of L. Oliver show, Philadelphia Inquirer (March 18th)
Levin, Kim, "Voice Choice," Village Voice (January 12-18th)
Linker, Kate, Tom Butter, W.H.M.M.D, Artforum, (November issue)
Littman, William, "The Setting and the Changing Nature of Art," ArtSpeak, (January 20th)
Montebello, Phillipe de., “Notable Acquisitions 1982-1983” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (pp. 69)
Princenthal, Nancy, “Tom Butter at Curt Marcus”, Art In America, (December issue) pp. 98-99
1982 Huntington, Richard, "Technology, Geometry and Skepticism" The Buffalo News (February 18th)
Merritt, Robert, "Fall Season Underway," Richmond Times Dispatch, August 29, 1982
Merritt, Robert, "American Abstraction Now," Richmond Times Dispatch, September 7, 1982
Proctor, Roy, “American Abstraction Now” Richmond News Leader, September 4, 1982
Pierre, Florence., “Energie New York”, Elac Centre d'échanges, Lyon France, January 1982, pp. 16-17
1981 Foran, Jack, "Sculpture Show Combines Humor, Artistic Concern," Buffalo Evening News, February 25, 1981
Denson, Roger, "Color, Light, and Mass: Ten Sculptors," (catalogue), Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, 1981
“Color-Mass, A Satisfying Show,” Buffalo Courier Express, February 22, 1981
Cohen, Ronny, survey article, Drawing, Summer 1981
1980 Cook, Scott, "Art for the Eighties," Galerie Durban, Caracas, Venezuela, 1980 (cat.)
