Katharine Cosenza Butler started her journey as an artist and a committed environmentalist after a great deal of success in her other ventures: she designed and co-founded the original Perry’s on Union Street in San Francisco, a popular restaurant that still is thriving to this day; and also built and ran the Katharine Butler Gallery, located both in Sarasota, Florida and Brooksville, Maine, where she furthered the careers of over twenty artists.

A graduate from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, Katharine went on to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute. 

Much of her work focuses on her various interests, and as part of her ongoing commitment to the arts and the environment, she serves on boards both in the art world and environmental non-profits. She shows her art nationally and internationally.

At present she lives and works in New York City, where she is represented by the Prince Street Gallery in Manhattan.