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
- 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
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
