He was born in Buenos Aires in 1928. He studied at Horacio Butler’s studio, his uncle, and at the National School of Fine Arts. It was around the age of 23 when she began to exhibit. In the first exhibitions she was presented as Juana Bullrich, her married name, but it was around 1961 and 1962 (as a result of her divorce) that she stopped using that name and began to appear as Juana Butler.

Her first individual exhibition was held in 1955 at the Antígona Gallery. Among her subsequent individual exhibitions, we can highlight the Van Riel Gallery in 1959, Rubbers Gallery in 1961, 1962 and in 1968 together with Juan Campodónico and Carlos Leone, in the Contemporary Gallery the following year, in 1974 in Arte Nuevo Gallery, in Ruth Benzacar in 1977, Del Retiro Gallery in 1980 and in Jacques Martínez Contemporary Art Gallery in 1985. He made an itinerant exhibition of 20 works in Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico between 1972 and 1975 organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina. In 2003 a great retrospective of his last 30 years of painting was held at the Recoleta Cultural Center.

She participated in the Second Salon of Young Argentine Painting at the Institute of Modern Art in 1950, in the Ver y Estimar Award at the National Museum of Fine Arts in 1961 and 1962, and in the María Calderón de la Barca Foundation Award by the National Academy, Witcomb Gallery in 1966. He was part of the exhibition held at the Sociedad Hebraica called Tendencias Surrealistas en la Argentina in 1965, of the Self-Portraits exhibition organized by the Rubbers Gallery the following year, where he shared the space with renowned artists such as Roberto Aizenberg, Juan Batlle Planas, Antonio Berni, Juan Grela, Ricardo Garabito and Emilio Pettoruti, among others, and participated in the Surrealist Exhibition Homage to Juan Batlle Planas, Proar Gallery in 1967. He represented Argentina in the First Latin American Art Biennial of São Paulo in 1978, with a shipment of 15 oil paintings of the series Origins and Exhalagos. His works are part of renowned private collections. He passed away in the city of Buenos Aires in March 2017.