Deborah Scott CV

INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS

  • Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, ICONIC Exhibition (2026)
  • Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, 7th Annual National Juried Exhibition (2025)
  • Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, International Biennial Portrait Exhibition (2025)
  • MEAM – Museu Europeu d’Art Modern, MEAM Hall Exhibition, Barcelona & New York (2024)
  • Sears Museum of Art, Invitational Exhibition, Utah (2025)
  • 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 (2011)

ARTIST RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS

  • Ragdale Artist Residency | Lake Forest, IL | 2026
  • Byrdcliffe Artist-in-Residence Program | 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 | Italy | 2023
  • The Almenara Collection Residency | Upcoming | Spain | 2028

AWARDS & HONORS

  • Almenara Collection Art Prize, Honorable Mention, Córdoba, Spain (2025)
  • Titian International Portrait Competition, Finalist, Juried Director Shanghai Art Museum & European Art Scholars, Forte Monte Ricco, Venice, Italy (2024)

COLLECTIONS

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

  • Gage Academy of Art, Permanent Collection (Seattle, WA)

SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

CRITICAL WRITING & THEORY

Originator of the Structural Omission framework (2010–present).

Ongoing — The Full Story Doesn’t Exist, Substack
Monthly essays advancing Structural Omission, disrupted realism, and epistemic limits in contemporary painting in the Post-Certainty era.

Selected Scholarly Publications — PhilPapers
The Artist Doesn’t Know: On the Epistemological Limits of Representation and the Framework I Call Structural Omission
Structural Omission: A Framework for Representation in the Post-Certainty Era
Structural Omission vs. Narrative Closure
The Half-Life of Certainty: Structural Omission and Realist Painting in the Post-Certainty Era 

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Painting and Drawing Atelier | Gage Academy of Art
Dartmouth College | Masters in Business Administration