| Solo Exhibitions | |
| 1955-59 | Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City |
| 1963-74 | Kornblee Gallery, New York City |
| 1967 | Franklin Siden Gallery, Detroit |
| 1970 | J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit |
| 1976 | Gallery of July and August, Woodstock, New York |
| 1978 | Fischbach Gallery, New York City |
| 1980 | Fischbach Gallery, New York City |
| 1984 | John Button: An American Painter, The College Gallery, Keane College, Union, New Jersey |
| 1984 | John Button: Paintings and Gouaches, Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, New York City |
| 1986 | John Button: The Last Works, Fischbach Gallery, New York City |
| 1989-90 | John Button: Retrospective Exhibition, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Jersey; Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, Connecticut; Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 1990 | Fischbach Gallery, New York City |
| 1991 | John Button’s New York, Fischbach Gallery, New York City |
| 1992 | Studies Enroute, Benton Gallery, Southampton, New York |
| 1995 | Mexico 1958, Fischbach Gallery, New York City |
| 2000 | Discoveries, Fischbach Gallery, New York City |
| 2007-08 | John Button (1929-1982): Paintings and Drawing from the Estate, ClampArt, New York City |
| 2009 | John Button, Reflections on Light, Bernhard Goldberg Fine Arts, East Hampton, New York |
| Selected Group Exhibitions: | |
| 1952 | Annual Exhibition: Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles |
| 1954, 55 | Stable Annual, Stable Gallery, New York City |
| 1956 | Three Painters Introduced by Three Poets, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York City |
| 1959, 60 | Gallery Group, Tanager Gallery, New York City |
| 1960 | Appearance and Reality, David Herbert Gallery, New York City |
| 1961 | The Figures in Contemporary Painting, The American Federation of the Arts, New York; and tour |
| 1962 | Selections from the Art Lending Service, Museum of Modern Art, New York City Art in Embassies, Museum of Modern Art, New York City; and tour Recent Painting USA: The Figure, Museum of Modern Art, New York City; and tour Gallery Group, Tanager Gallery, New York City |
| 1963 | Landscape, The New School, New York City ; |
| 1965 | Recent Landscapes by Eight Americans, The International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; and the Festival Dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy; and world tour |
| 1968 | Realism Now, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York |
| 1969 | Contemporary Portraits, Museum of Modern Art, New York City; and tour |
| 1970 | Painterly Realism, American Federation of Arts, New York City; and tour |
| 1970 | The Representative Spirit, University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Albany, New York |
| 1972 | The American Landscape, Art Gallery, School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston University, Boston |
| 1972 | Viewpoints 7: Painters of the Land and Sky, The Picker Gallery, Dana Arts Center, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York |
| 1973 | The Male Nude, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York |
| 1973 | A Sense of Place, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; and tour |
| 1974 | Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 1976 | Three Centuries of the American Nude, The New York Cultural Center, New York City |
| 1976 | America 1976, Department of the Interior at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
| 1976 | A Selection of American Art: The Skowhegan School 1946 - 1976, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston |
| 1977 | Artist’s Choice: Figurative Art in New York: Contemporary Watercolors and Pastels, Art Museum, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana |
| 1977 | Artists Salute Skowhegan, Kennedy Galleries, New York City |
| 1978 | American Realism, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia |
| 1978 | Painterly Realism, Watson/de Nagy & Company, Houston, Texas |
| 1978 | Survey of Realism, Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania |
| 1979 | New York Now Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona |
| 1979 | Selections from Skowhegan, The Art Gallery of the University of Maryland, College Park |
| 1979 | Summertime, Droll/Kolbert Gallery, New York City |
| 1979 | The Urban Landscape, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York |
| 1979 | Painterly Realism in America, A.J. Wood Gallery, Philadelphia |
| 1980 | Photography Influences Painting, Jeffrey Fuller Gallery, Philadelphia |
| 1980 | Art from Houston Corporations I, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas |
| 1980 | Realism, Photorealism, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma |
| 1980 | Selections from the Fischbach Gallery, State University of New York, Cortland, New York |
| 1980 | Contemporary Naturalism: Works of the 1970s, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York |
| 1982 | An Appreciation of Realism, Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York |
| 1982 | Cloudworks, Stuart Neill Gallery, New York City |
| 1982 | Contemporary Realist Painting: A Selection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA |
| 1983 | In Honor of the Brooklyn Bridge, David Findlay, Jr. Contemporary Art, New York City |
| 1983 | Works of the Faculty and Students of the Department of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
| 1984 | Art and Friendship: A Tribute to Fairfield Porter, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY |
| 1984 | Drawings by 77, Forum Gallery, New York City (Curated by Ralph Pomeroy) |
| 1984 | Landscape, Matthews Hamilton Gallery, Philadelphia |
| 1985 | American Realism, William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1985 | The Artist Celebrates New York: Selected Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York; and tour |
| 1985 | The Gathering of the Avant-garde, Kenkeleba House, New York City |
| 1985-86 | City Views: Panoramas to Particulars, CIGNA Museum and Art Collection, Philadelphia PA |
| 1985-87 | American Realism: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts; Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio; Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin |
| 1986 | American Cityscape, Frank Bernarducci Gallery, New York City |
| 1986 | Mainly on the Plane, 56 Bleecker Gallery, Ltd., New York City |
| 1988 | Contemporary Nudes, Contemporary Art at One Penn Plaza, New York City |
| 1988 | Memorial for John Bernard Myers, Kouras Gallery, New York City |
| 1988 | The Face of the Land, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania |
| 1990 | A Little Night Music Manhattan in the Dark, Lintas: Worldwide, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York City (Curated by Gerrit Henry) |
| 1990 | The 1950s at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Art Gallery, Laguardia Hall, Brooklyn College, New York City |
| 1990 | Long Island Painting, Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, New York |
| 1993 | Men Working, G.W. Einstein Company, New York City |
| 1993 | The Collection: Porter’s Circle, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York |
| 1993 | Excellence in Watercolor, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey |
| 1994 | Paintings from the Commerce Bancshares Collection, Lakeview Museum of Art and Science, Peoria, Illinois |
| 1994 | To Enchant (blue), Cynthia McCallister Gallery, New York City; Bixler Gallery, New York City (Curated by Michael Walls) |
| 1994-95 | New York Realism Past and Present, Odakyu Museum, Tokyo; Kagoshima City Museum of Art, Kagoshima, Japan; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan; The Museum of Art, Kintetsu, Osaka, Japan; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukushima, Japan; and Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida |
| 1995 | The City: New York Visions 1900 - 1995, ACA Galleries, Lizan-Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York |
| 1995 | Male Desire, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York City |
| 2000 | In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, New York |
| 2000 | Masters of Contemporary Art, Art from the Chase Manhattan Collection, The Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, New York |
| 2000 | Traveling Artists, Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York |
| 2001 | John Button (1929-1982), James Britton (1878-1936), Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, New York |
| 2010 | American Still Life: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, New York |
| Awards: | |
| 1952 | Prize, Los Angeles County Museum, of Art, Los Angeles |
| 1961,69,74,82 | Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant |
| 1964 | Prize, Silvermine Guild of Artists, Norwalk, Connecticut |
| Teaching: | |
| 1964 - 65 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine |
| 1965 - 62 | School of Visual Arts, New York City |
| 1967 - 68 | College of Art, Architecture and planning, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York |
| 1969 - 70 | Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania |
| 1975 | Maryland Institute of art, Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1975 - 82 | Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
| Education: | |
| 1947 - 48 | University of California, Berkeley |
| 1949 - 51 | California School of Fine Arts, and University of California Medical Center, San Francisco |
| 1951- 52 | Studies with Howard Warshaw and Altina Barrett, Beverly Hills, California |
| 1953 | Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, New York City |
| 1964 | Studies with Willard Cummings, New York City |