INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS

• Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, International Biennial Portrait Exhibition (2025)
• Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, 6th Annual National Juried 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

• 33 Contemporary Gallery, Miami, FL 
• Nanny Goat Gallery, San Francisco 
• Poets Artists, Multiple Locations 
• Dacia Gallery, New York 

ARTIST RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS

• Byrdcliffe Artist-in-Residence Program | Woodstock, NY | 2025
• The Almenara Collection Residency | Upcoming | Spain | 2028
• Vermont Studio Center Fellowship | Johnson, VT | 2025
• Vermont Studio Center Fellowship | Johnson, VT | 2024
• The Museum of Loss and Renewal | Italy | 2023

AWARDS & HONORS

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

COLLECTIONS

Scott’s work is included in institutional, private, and corporate collections internationally.  Recent acquisitions include:

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

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Fine Art Connoisseur, “Modern Masters” (2025)
• American Art Collector, Artists Painting Artists (2024)
• Medium, Era Contemporary, “Embracing Ambiguity: The Art of Deborah Scott” (2024)
• Visionary Art Collective, “Unraveling the Vision” (2024)
• Hyperallergic (Pending), “Two Truths and a Lie About Portraiture” (2025)
• Lieberman, Michael. The Seattle P-I, 100 Artists and the Books That Influenced Them (2014)
• Austin & Thompson, The Better Bombshell (2013)
• 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

Ongoing — The Full Story Doesn’t Exist, Substack
Monthly essays on structural omission, disrupted realism, and the limits of representation.
Selected pieces:
— What We Leave Out: Structural Omission and the Limits of Representation (2025)
— The Known and the Unknowable: How Johari’s Window Shaped Structural Omission (2025)

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

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