MICHAEL SCOTT
About Michael Scott
Michael Scott was born in the Midwest. He studied painting at the Kansas City Art Institute where he received his BFA; He was the recipient of the Skowhegan painting fellowship, Skowhegan Maine and received his MFA from the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati Ohio. His fascination for the West led him to Santa Fe where he currently lives and works.
In his earlier work, Scott created elaborate conceptual narratives using the American Landscape and the American West for his backdrop, for which he has had numerous gallery and museum exhibitions. He has exhibited in New York, Santa Fe, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Los Angeles and Washington D.C., among other cities...
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...His work was included in the 41st Corcoran Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, has been featured in numerous group exhibitions and the subject of numerous critical reviews, catalogues and publications.
Scott’s artwork is included in many private and corporate collections as well as the permanent collections of the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown Ohio, The Corpus Christi Museum of Art, Corpus Christi Texas, The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati Ohio, The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans Louisiana, The Autry Museum of The American West, Los Angeles California, The Tyson Collection of Contemporary Art, Springdale Arkansas, The Southern Ohio Museum of Art, Portsmouth Ohio, The Hunter Museum of American Art Chattanooga Tennessee, The Whitney Collection of Western Art- Buffalo Bill Museum, Cody Wyoming Wyoming, and The J.B. Seed Art Museum, Louisville Kentucky, among others.
Fellowships Awards
1975 Skowhegan Fellowship
1998 Post Corbett Award Finalist
1999 Ohio Individual Arts Fellowship
2002 Ohio Individual Arts Fellowship
Selected Collections
Arts & Humanities of New Mexico Santa Fe NM
The Buffalo Bill Museum of Art Cody WY
The Corpus Christi Museum of Art Corpus Christi TX
J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock AK
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown OH
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati OH
Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga TN
Southern Ohio Museum of Art
Huntington Bank Columbus Ohio
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans LA
Autry National Center for Arts and Culture LosAngeles, CA
The Nicolaysen Art Museum
A.B. Closson, Jr. Co. Cincinnati OH
AT&T, Piscataway NJ
Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH
Arthur Anderson Co. Chicago IL
Capitol Holding, Louisville KY
Central Trust Bank, Cincinnati OH
Charter Oak Savings Assoc. Cincinnati and Columbus OH
Cincinnati Financial, Cincinnati OH
Cincinnati Art Galleries, Cincinnati OH
Cincinnati Playing Cards Cincinnati OH
Cincinnati Heating & Air Conditioning
Citicorp Investment Bank, New York NY
City of Covington, Covington KY
Drackett Corporation Cincinnati OH
Federated Central Office Cincinnati OH
Fidelity Investments Boston MA
Hamilton Carver & Lee, Cincinnati OH
J.C. Nichols Co, Inc. Kansas City MO
Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Los Angeles CA
Kentucky Utilities, Carrollton KY
Manhattan Life Co, New York NY
Michigan Bell Telephone Co, Southfield MI
Miner Raymond & Associates, Cincinnati OH
Museum Acquisitions Ltd. Chicago IL
NYNEX, White Plains NY
Northern Trust Corporation, Chicago IL
Prince Corporation, Holland MI
Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, NJ
Century Sports Inc. Ridgefield NJ
Quality Group Inc. Kansas City MO
R.H. Love Gallery, Chicago IL
Scheper Chemical Co. Cincinnati OH
Scripts Howard News, Cincinnati OH
Cincinnati Bell, Cincinnati OH
The Phoenix of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH
Tia Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Brown Foreman, Louisville KY
Education
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute
1978 MFA, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH.
Western Art and Architecture – 2019:
“New York Gallery Guide “ January 2012 –Cover + intro
“Dogs in Art” Art & Antiques Feb.2012 Cover Sarah E. Fensom
“Buffalo Bulbs Wild West” Cowboys & Indians Magazine October 2010 Wolf Scheinder
The Santa Fean Cover August – September 2010
The Magazine Cover July 2010
Katherine Davis review “Michael Scotts Buffalo Bulbs Wild West” July 2010
Devon Jackson “Trickster Man” The Santa fean Magazine June-July Art Issue pp.50-54 color reproductions
John O’Hern June 2010 “Michael Scott Man of the West” Western Art Collector pp.108-111
John O’Hern October 2008 “Life as Art” Western Art Collector pp.68-77
Guy Cross “Universe of Michael Scott” The Magazine September2008 pp.16-17
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Cover Tempo, color reproductions.
Brandt, Frederick R. “’Harmony and Discord’ American Landscape Painting Today” Exhibition Catalog Virginia Museum Of Fine Arts, Richmond, August 7 1990, p. 10-12
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