EXHIBITIONS
2024
Rising Voices 3: The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters, Customs House Museum and Cultural Center, Clarksville, TN: February 7 – April 21, 2024
Rising Voices 3: The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters, Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA: September 14 – December 1, 2024
2023
Modern and Contemporary Selections From The Collection, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI: June 24-December 17, 2023
Rising Voices 3: The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI: May 18-September 10, 2023
Rising Voices 3: The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY: October 16, 2023-January 1, 2024
2021
Abstract Ideas, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2019
Ruffles, Repair and Ritual, Dirt Palace, Providence, RI
2017
be of love and other stories: Contemporary Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2016
Ruth Dealy: After the Shadow, Peligro Amarillo/Santurce, San Juan, PR
1950-2000: 50 Years of Art in Rhode Island, The Rhode Island Historical Society, Providence, RI
2015
Ruth Dealy + Rodrigo Nava, Yellow Peril Gallery at ArtHamptons 2015, Bridgehampton, NY
Networks Retrospective Exhibition, Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
2014
Collectors III: Discerning Eyes, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, MA
2013
Locally Made: Contemporary Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Work Harder: Installation Exhibition, Yellow Peril Gallery at LightSpace Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Artist Community, Rhode Island: Harry Callahan, Stephan Brigidi, Ruth Dealy, Richard Fleishner, Malcolm Grear, Bunny Harvey, Aaron Siskind, Hugh Townley, Dale Chihuly , Big Town Gallery, Rochester, Vt.
PAINT.NOW, Green Space Gallery, T.F. Greene Airport, Warwick, Rhode Island
2011
“YES!” Buonaccorsi + Agniel, Providence, Rhode Island
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship Award Winning Artists for 2011, Artists’ Cooperative Gallery of Westerly, Westerly, Rhode Island
Water, Land and Sky, The Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, Rhode Island
Feminist Art Base, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base 2011 to present
2010
Present Again: Guest Artist Ruth Dealy, Imago Gallery, Warren, Rhode Island
Vault Series: Portraits, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts
Abstraction in Providence, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island
Italo Scanga Visiting Artist Exhibition, University of Rhode Island Fine Arts Center Gallery, Kingston, Rhode Island
2008
On Emotion: Re-Articulation of Emotion in the Contemporary Visual Arts, Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
NetWorks 2008, Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
NetWorks 2008, 5Traverse Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
NetWorks 2008, AS220 Project Space, Providence, Rhode Island
2006
Ruth Frisch Dealy and Jamie Sherman, Gallery Agniel, Providence, RI
2005
RISD Painting and Sculpture Show, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
Chazan’s Choice: Gifts of Contemporary Art to The RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Group Show, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI
Face to Face: Solo Show, Hunt-Cavanaugh Gallery, Providence College, Providence, RI
Out Front: Collecting Contemporary Art in Rhode Island With Paula and Leonard Granoff, Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2003
In The Land of the Blind: One Person Exhibition, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Body of Work 2003: A Survey of Contemporary Work, Gallery Agniel, Providence, RI
Anniversary Show, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI
2002
Mask or Mirror? A Play of Portraits, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Group Show, Maienza-Wilson Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Body of Work, Gallery Agniel, Providence, RI
Group Show, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI
Celebrate Orange, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
2001
Substantive Scale, Gallery Agniel, Providence, RI
Ruth Dealy at BankRI, Bank Rhode Island Gallery, Providence, RI
2000
Sign Language, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Landscapes, RI State Department of Administration, Atrium Gallery, Providence, RI
Millennium Bug, Karen Shaw, Curator, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
1999
Group Show, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI
An Evil Bumblebee, RI State Department of Administration, Atrium Gallery, Providence, RI
1998
Down to Earth: The Enduring Landscape, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
1997
Recent acquisitions, Spotlight on Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Ruth Frisch Dealy Paintings, The Happy White Gallery, St. Andrew’s School, Barrington, RI
1996
Beyond Recognition, Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT; Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Montserrat College, Beverly, MA; The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
RISD Collects RISD, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Group Show: Dealy, Hamilton, Wulff, Franklin, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI
1995
RISD Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Figure as Form II, Arlene Bujese Gallery, East Hampton, NY
New Acquisitions, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Thirteen Faculty Members from the Rhode Island School of Design, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI
1994
Ruth Frisch Dealy: Sleep in Spite of Thunder (Part 1), AS220 Gallery, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
Ruth Frisch Dealy: Sleep in Spite of Thunder (Part 2), Dodge House Gallery, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI
Two Views of a Self: Paintings by Ruth Frisch Dealy and Ann Harris, Area Gallery, University of Southern Maine, Gorham, ME
1993
Ruth Frisch Dealy: Self-Portraits, solo show, Arden Gallery, Boston, MA
Ruth Frisch Dealy: Self-Portraits, fifteen-year retrospective, Wriston Art Center, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
1992
Rhode Island School of Design Biennial Faculty Show, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
AS220 Building Box Exhibition, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
1991
Stations of the Cross, Hunt-Cavanaugh Gallery, Providence College, Providence, RI
Ruth Frisch Dealy: Paintings, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI
Abstract Art, Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI
1989
Twelve Years of Solitude (Part 1), AS220, Providence, RI
Twelve Years of Solitude (Part 2), Gallery One, Providence, RI
New Work, 521 Broadway, New York, NY
1988
Artists Against AIDS, concurrent exhibitions at: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; Barros Gallery; Gallery One; Modulus Gallery; AS220, Providence, RI
12″ x 12″, Rhode Island School of Design Alumni, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
A New Season with Four Providence Artists, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI
Visionary Dimensions in Nature, James Eddy Memorial Arts Exhibition, Bell Street Chapel, Providence, RI
A Year of the Arts: A History of Excellence, 20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI. Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office
1986
The Artist’s View: Rhode Island People and Places, Gallery 401, Juror: Frank Robinson, Director, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1st Prize
Human Dimensions, Figurative Works by Regional Artists, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI
1985
Art for Africa, The Famine Relief, Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI
1984
Ruth Dealy:In the Land of the Blind, Gallery One, Providence, RI
1981
Rhode Island Artists: Dore Ashton Selects, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1979
Benbow Gallery, Newport, RI,
1978
Bristol Art Museum, Annual Jury Show, Juror: Lloyd Goodrich, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI 1st Prize
1976
Columbia and Missouri Rivers Reexplored, 10-state bicentennial Juried Art Show, CM Russell Museum, Jurors: Lewis Winfield Story and Ben Goo, Great Falls, MT 1st Prize