Selected Exhibitions

2010       Synergies, The University Club, Cincinnati, Ohio.

2010       Quietude, Sandra Small Gallery, Covington, KY.

2009       Other Houses/Inner Rooms, The Artisan Enterprise Center, Covington, KY.

2009       American Spirit, Cincinnati Art Galleries, Cincinnati, Ohio.

2009       New Narratives, Paintings by Ohio Artists, Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery, Columbus,    

                  Ohio.

2007 Avant Gardens, The Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, Ohio.

2005       Ideas into Objects: Reinterpreting the Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, The Weston Art

                  Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.      

2005 A Friendly Climate, Studio San Gieseppe, Mt. St. Joseph, Cincinnati, Ohio.

2003       Inner  Garden’s, solo exhibition,  The Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati. Ohio.

2001       Personal Space, Twelve Contemporary Painters, Bowling Green State University

                  Galleries, Bowling Green, Ohio.

2000      Deborah Morrissey McGoff, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan.

2000      Paradeisos, solo exhibition, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1999      Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, Ohio.

1998      Back to Reality, More or Less: Contemporary Ohio Landscape, Riffe Gallery,

                  Columbus, Ohio.

1997 Look Homeward...The Paintings of Deborah Morrissey McGoff, solo exhibition,The

    Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio, & the Southern Ohio Museum,    

                  Portsmouth, Ohio.        

1997 Recent Work, solo exhibition, Toni Birckhead Art, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1996 Summerfair Six, a biennial exhibition, Cincinnati Art Galleries, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1996 Landscapes, solo exhibition, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky.

1995 The River, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Inaugural exhibition, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1995 Landscape in Focus, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

1994 Contemporary Art Cincinnati: 1965-1994, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1993 The Challenge of the Landscape, Struve Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.

1993 The Birch Society, Chidlaw Gallery, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati,Ohio.

1992 Town & Country, Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio.

1991 Small Works, Toni Birckhead Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1991 Public Territory, Struve Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.

1991 Public Territory, The Witchita Center for the Arts, Witchita, Kansas.

1991 Contemporary Midwestern Landscapes, The Gallery, University Club, Chicago, Illinois,         Sponsored by Struve Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.

1991 Recent Work, one person exhibition, Toni Birckhead Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1990 Ohio Landscapes, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.

1990 Ohio Selections, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio.

1990 Landscapes, J. Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.

1990 Earthly Visions, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio.

1988 Governor’s Residence Collection, Columbus, Ohio.

1988 Landscape Paintings, one person exhibition, Toni Birckhead Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1987 Celebrate Cincinnati Painters, Chidlaw Gallery, The Art Academy of Cincinnati,

  Cincinnati, Ohio.

1986 New Directions, Closson’s Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1986 Her Nature, The Arts Consortium, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1985 Summerfair Six, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati,Ohio.

1984 Landscape 84, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.                                                                                            1984 Works on Walls, Huntington Galleries, Huntington, West Virginia.

1982 Nature Man Nature, C.A.G.E. Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1979 Strategies, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Awards, Recognitions, Commissions

2006 Juror, Summerfair, Cincinnati, Ohio.

2000      Recipient, Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship.

1999      Juror, Summerfair, Cincinnati, Ohio.

1998      The Open Studios Press, number 17, New American Paintings, juror Carl Belz, Rose Art       

  Museum.

1996 Recipient, Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship.

1993 Scripps Howard boardroom, commission for two paintings.

1992 Recipient, Summerfair Aid to Individual Artist Fellowship.

1990 Recipient, Arts Midwest/ National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship.

1990 Recipient, Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship.

1989 Cincinnati Gas & Electric, three paintings for the president’s suite.

1987 Finalist, The Artist’s Magazine landscape painting competition.

1986 Elected member of the Cincinnati MacDowell Society.

1984 Recipient, Summerfair Aid to Individual Artist Fellowship.

1984 Juror, Cincinnati Women’s Conference Show.

1980 First Merit Award in drawing, Whitewater Valley Annual Competition, Indiana

  University East, Richmond, Indiana.

1977 Mural Commission, Alpha Zeta Omega Pharmaceutical Fraternity of Pharmacy lobby

  Univeristy of Cincinnati.

Selected Public Collections

Elliston Poetry Room, University of Cincinnati

Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio

Scripps Howard, Cincinnati, Ohio

United Student Aid Funds, Indianapolis, Indiana

Ale-8-One Bottling Company, Winchester, Kentucky

ARCO Corporation, Dublin, Ohio

PNC Bank, Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company, Cincinnati, Ohio

Fidelity Investments, Covington, Kentucky

Cincinnati Financial Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio

Cinergy, Cincinnati, Ohio

Drackett Company, Cincinnati, Ohio

Huntingtion Bank, Columbus, Ohio

Huntington Galleries, Huntington, West Virginia

Linclay Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio

McDonald’s Corporation, Centerville, Ohio

Wang Computer and Research Company, Cincinnati, Ohio

Ethicon Corporation, Cincinnati, Ohio

Publications

Studio Visit, volume 3, 2008, juried selection of international artists.

Marilyn Bauer, Cincinnati Enquirer, “Weston Features Two Different Artists”, April, 2003.

Cate O’Hara, Citybeat, “Dreamscapes”, April, 2003.

Cate O’Hara, Citybeat, “Views of an Artist’s Eden”, October/November, 2000.

Maureen Bloomfield & Val Hunt, The Artist’s Magazine, “To Preserve and Protect”,          

   December 2004.

The Cincinnati Review, fall 2004, cover illustration and featured artist within.

Maureen Bloomfield, Watercolor Magic, “The Proof is in the Paper”, August, 2001.

Maureen Bloomfield, “Paradeisos, Works in watermedia on paper by Deborah Morrissey-          

   McGoff”, Dialogue, January/February, 2001.

New American Paintings, The Open Studios Press, volume 29, 2000.

New American Paintings, The Open Studios Press, number 17, 1998.

David T. Johnson, Look Homeward... The Paintings of Deborah Morrissey McGoff,

   The Springfield Museum of Art,  Springfield, Ohio, and The Southern Ohio              

   Museum and Cultural Center.

Sara Johnson, “Light and color flood museum’s Kricker Gallery,” Portsmouth Daily Times.

Kathy Whyde Jesse, “A look to the past, Italian Renaissance plays big part in Cincinnati

   artist’s work,” The Dayton Daily  News, Dayton, Ohio, Sept. 14, 1997.

Lawrene Calder Trump, “Painter,” The Springfield News - Sun, Springfied, Ohio, Aug. 1997.

Maureen Bloomfield, “Error and Angels”, poems by Maureen Bloomfield, cover illustration,

   University of South Carolina Press, 1997.

David T. Johnson, The River, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct. 1995.”

Summerfair Six, Summerfair Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio. Sept. 1995.

David T. Johnson, “Deborah McGoff, Recent Paintings,” Toni Birckhead Gallery,

   Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994.

Barbara Bonney, “Deborah Morrissey McGoff,” artist profile, Antenna, Feb. 1997.

Maureen Bloomfield, “Deborah Morrissey McGoff,” review, Dialogue, May/June, 1997.

Jonathan Kamholtz, “A River Runs Through It- Deborah Morrissey McGoff,” Antenna,

   Apr. 1997.

James Auer, “Landscape paintings capture...,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Oct. 1995.

John Gregory, “Deborah McGoff,” The New Art Examiner, Dec. 1994.

Catherine O’Hara, “Deborah McGoff, Recent Paintings,” Dialogue, Nov./Dec. 1994.

Owen Findsen, “Beautiful Art Not Always Pretty,” Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept. 1994.

Mary  McCarty, “It’s the Real Thing,” Cincinnati  Magazine, Oct. 1992.

Julie Hellerud, “A Thousand Words, Creator, Creation,” Buzzworm, 1991.

Greg Wood, “Coming Home to the Country,” Country America Magazine, 1991.

Diana Dickman, “Portraits of the Land,” Midwest Living Magazine, 1991

College News Service, “Ohio Landscapes Planned at College,” Daily Record, Wooster,

   Ohio, 1990.

Daniel Brown, “Deborah Morrissey McGoff, Landscape Paintings,” review, The Art

   Academy News, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1988.

Jerry Stein, “Fourth Street Shows Fine Art,” Cincinnati Post, 1988.

Owen Findsen, “Artist’s Splash Ideas At Closson’s,” Cincinnati Enquirer, 1986.

Owen Findsen, “Imaginative By Nature,” Cincinnati Enquirer, 1986.

Owen Findsen, “Summerfair Six Granted CAC Exhibit,”Cincinnati Enquirer, I985.

Owen Findsen, “Fair Rewards,” Cincinnati Enquirer, 1984.

Elizabeth Hoxie, “Strategies,” Dialogue: Ohio’s Art Journal, Columbus, Ohio. 1979.

Education

College of Design, Art, Architecture & Planning, University of Cincinnati, BFA, drawing, 1977.