Deborah Scott is a painter, writer, and the originator of Structural Omission, a framework for representational painting premised on the limits of human perception and knowing. She works in oil and mixed media.

Her paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States and Europe, including the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, and MEAM in Barcelona. She has completed residencies at Ragdale, the Vermont Studio Center, Byrdcliffe, the Museum of Loss and Renewal in Italy, and Tablas de Daimiel National Park, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (Arte y Naturaleza program; Junta de Castilla-La Mancha), where she received the Grand Prize, Art and Nature Award (2026). She has an upcoming residency at The Almenara Collection in Córdoba, Spain (2028). Her work has been featured in Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Collector, and other international publications, and she was profiled in a video essay by art historian and critic John Seed. Her theoretical writing on Structural Omission is published in philosophy archives. She lives and works in Seattle.

“The known and the unknowable exist together. They shape the way we experience the world around us. This is what I paint.”