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, 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

  • 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

  • Fine Art Connoisseur, Still Life portfolio, 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)
  • 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, Conversations  (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

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

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