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)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- Kleinert James Gallery, Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, 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
- 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 | Upcoming | Córdoba, Spain | 2028
AWARDS & HONORS
- Semi-Finalist DiTrapano Foundation Fellowship, 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:
- Gage Academy of Art, Permanent Collection (Seattle, WA)
SELECTED PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
- Deborah Scott: Painting at the Edge of Knowing — Structural Omission in Contemporary Painting
Video profile by art historian, critic, and author John Seed (2025) - Almenara Art Collection Prize, 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, “Modern Masters” (2025)
- American Art Collector, Artists Painting Artists (2024)
- 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).
The Full Story Doesn’t Exist, Substack
Selected Scholarly Publications — PhilPapers
- Realism in the Age of AI: How Structural Omission Grounds Representational Painting in Perceptual Limits
- 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
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
Seattle University | Bachelor of Arts
Dartmouth College | Masters in Business Administration
