Deborah Muirhead
Professor of Painting
MFA, Illinois State University
deborah.muirhead@uconn.edu
 

Professor Deborah Muirhead has been teaching at the University of Connecticut since 1981.  She has an MS in Printmaking and an MFA in Painting from Illinois State University. Her professional career has been marked by significant honors and awards, including: a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Connecticut Commission of the Arts Artist Grant, New England Foundation for the Arts/NEA Individual Artist Grant, Nexus Press Artist Book Project Award, Visual Studies Artist Book Project Residency Grant, The American Antiquarian Society’s William Randolph Hearst Fellowship, Women’s Studio Workshop Residency Grant and a YADDO Fellow. More than a dozen solo exhibitions have been at institutions and galleries such as: Wright State University, Purdue University,  Liz Harris Gallery, The Housatonic Museum, Sears-Peyton Gallery, G.R.N’Namdi Gallery, ARC Gallery, and The College of Saint Rose, and inclusion in group exhibitions across the country have been at: The University of Rhode Island, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, The Spencer Museum, Mobius, The Mead Art Museum and the DeCordova Museum, The Bruce Museum and the New Britain Museum of Art. Her work may be found in numerous permanent collections including: The Boston Museum of Fine, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Montgomery Museum of Art, The Spencer Museum of Art, The Hunter Museum of Art, Vanderbilt University, Grinnell College, Oberlin College Allen Memorial Museum of Art, General Electric Company, Chemical Bank, and the United States Embassy in Cameroon.  She is represented by Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, G.R.N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago and Charles Young Fine Prints and Drawings, Connecticut.