Deborah Scott CV

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • Kirkland Arts Center, Structural Omission, Kirkland, WA (January 15 – February 19, 2027) (upcoming)

INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS

  • Ateneo de Madrid, Grand Prize, Art and Nature Award, Arte y Naturaleza: Tablas de Daimiel National Park, Castilla-La Mancha, Madrid, Spain (September 2026)
  • Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, ANJE 2026, juror Philip Salamone (2026)
  • Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, ICONIC Exhibition, juried by David Hummer and Didi Menendez (2026)
  • Sears Museum of Art, Invitational Exhibition, Utah (2025)
  • Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, ANJE 2025, juror Julianne Jonker (2025)
  • MEAM – Museu Europeu d’Art Modern, MEAM Hall Exhibition, Barcelona & New York (2024)
  • Seattle Art Museum, Olympic Sculpture Park, The Better Bombshell, Seattle, WA (2013)
  • 64 Arts, Buchanan Center for the Arts, Juror April Gornik, Monmouth, IL (2013)
  • Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Contemporary Realism Biennial (2012)
  • Whatcom Museum, Fate of the Forest, Bellingham, WA (2011)
  • Florida Museum of Women Artists, 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition (2011)
  • 64 Arts America Now and Here, Curated by Eric Fischl, Buchanan Center for the Arts, IL (2012)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • Werring Contemporary, Disrupted Realism: The Evolution of a Movement, curated by John Seed, Devon, PA (Sept-Oct 2026)
  • Kleinert James Gallery, Flock, Woodstock, NY (2026)
  • 33 Contemporary Gallery, BFFs, Miami, FL (2025)
  • 33 Contemporary Gallery, Non-Sequitur, Miami, FL (2025)
  • Dacia Gallery, Holiday Exhibition, New York, NY  (2024)
  • First Street Gallery, MEAM Hall Exhibition, New York, NY (2024)
  • Dacia Gallery, Featured Artist Group Exhibition, New York, NY (2023)
  • Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY (2014)

ARTIST RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS

  • Artist Residency, Arte y Naturaleza: Tablas de Daimiel | Tablas de Daimiel National Park, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain | 2026 (Junta de Castilla-La Mancha)
  • The Ragdale Foundation | Artist-in-Residence | Lake Forest, IL | 2026
  • Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild | Artist-in-Residence  | Woodstock, NY | 2025
  • Vermont Studio Center Fellowship | Johnson, VT | 2025
  • Vermont Studio Center Fellowship | Johnson, VT | 2024
  • The Museum of Loss and Renewal | Artist-in-Residence | Collemacchia, Italy | 2023
  • The Almenara Collection | Artist-in-Residence | Córdoba, Spain | 2028 (upcoming)

AWARDS & HONORS

  • Art and Nature Award, Grand Prize, Tablas de Daimiel, International Artist Residency, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (2026)
  • DiTrapano Foundation Fellowship, Semi-Finalist, Sezze, Italy (2026)
  • Almenara Collection Art Prize, Honorable Mention, Córdoba, Spain (2025)
  • FiKVA Top 100, Brussels, Belgium (2025)
  • Titian International Portrait Competition, Finalist, Forte Monte Ricco, Venice, Italy (2024)

COLLECTIONS

Work included in institutional, private, and corporate collections internationally.  Recent acquisitions include:

  • The tARTget Prize, permanent collection, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (2026)
  • Collection of José Sanroma and María Luisa Fisac, Daimiel, Spain (2026)
  • Gage Academy of Art, Permanent Collection (Seattle, WA)

SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

  • Art and Nature: Tablas de Daimiel, documentary, tARTget Painting Prize / Arte y Naturaleza International ArtistResidency (2026)
  • John Seed, “The Disrupted Body in Contemporary Painting,” Werring Contemporary (2026)
  • Fine Art Connoisseur, Today’s Masters: Still Life: In Full Bloom, July/August (2026)
  • Deborah Scott: Painting at the Edge of Knowing — Structural Omission in Contemporary Painting
    Video profile by art historian, critic, and author John Seed (2025)
  • Wausau Museum of  Contemporary Art, ICONIC Exhibition, Exhibition Catalog 2026.
  • Almenara Collection,  Exhibition Catalog, 2025.
  • Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art,  Annual National Juried Exhibition, Exhibition Catalog 2025.
  • Fine Art Connoisseur, “Realism Rising: Seattle’s Art Revival” (2025)
  • Fine Art Connoisseur, Today’s Masters: Go Figure (2025)
  • American Art Collector, Talk It Out  (2024)
  • American Art Collector, A Community on Display (2023)
  • International Painting Annual 2, Manifest Creative Research Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (2012)
  • Fischl, Eric. America Now and Here, Buchanan Center for the Arts (2012)
  • Contemporary Realism Biennial Catalog, Fort Wayne Museum of Art (2012)

CRITICAL WRITING & THEORY

Structural Omission framework (2010–present)

Selected Scholarly Publications — PhilPapers

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Painting and Drawing Atelier | Gage Academy of Art
Seattle University | Bachelor of Arts
Dartmouth College | Masters of Business Administration