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Compton Gallery
& Studios

Compton Gallery & StudiosCompton Gallery & StudiosCompton Gallery & Studios

904 Main Street, Boonton NJ 973-910-2400

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Ginny Butera

Our Philosophy

Virginia Fabbri Butera, Ph.D. (Ginny)

Vice President and Head of Curatorial Projects

For more than 40 years, Ginny has been creating innovative, dynamic and engaging art exhibitions and collections for corporate, institutional and private clients. She is a curator, art program developer, lecturer, published author, art show juror, board member and grant writer for art and culture. Active in Philadelphia, New York, New Jersey, and surrounding areas, Ginny is constantly searching for exceptional works to add to permanent collections or to present at exhibitions that reveal new ideas, materials and meanings in art, and for artists whose new ideas could enhance a home, an office or other public space.

During her career she has curated art exhibitions for museums and galleries such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery and other prestigious institutions around the country. She developed and co-curated, The Folding Image: Screens by Western Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and for the Yale University Art Gallery. She was then commissioned to create another show, Contemporary Screens, which was circulated to five different museums around the country.

Since 2000, Ginny has curated more than 70 exhibitions of art by contemporary professional artists and led 20 artists’ panel discussions in the Northern New Jersey area, including at the Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery where she served as the Director and Lead Curator, at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation-Morris Arts Gallery at 14 Maple in Morristown, NJ, and at several other New Jersey area galleries and arts institutions. Her insight for outstanding art was underscored when she invited Newark artist, Adebunmi Gbadebo, to have her first one-person show at the Maloney Art Gallery and who has recently had work in a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Ginny has been a member of the Board of Pro Arts, Jersey City, NJ,  the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, and Morris County’s Arts & Culture Collaborative. Recently, she has been invited to be a member of the Board at the Akwaaba Gallery in Newark. She has also been a tenacious and powerful advocate for the arts and artists, winning Morris Arts’ Outstanding Arts Advocate of the Year in 2010 and going the “extra mile” to promote artists and their work.

Ginny has lectured widely about art, published articles in a variety of art magazines, and has written essays and catalogs  for various artists’ gallery and museum exhibitions. 

For over 25 years, she was a Professor of Art History, Chairperson of the Art Department, and Director/Curator of the Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery at Saint Elizabeth University in Morristown, New Jersey.

Ginny received her B.A. in Renaissance Studies from Trinity College, Hartford, CT, her M.A. in History of Art from Johns Hopkins University and her Ph.D. in Art History from the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. 

She was the recipient of a Smithsonian Museum Fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and a recipient of a two-year National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in the Print and Drawing Department of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.


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