PAUL SCOTT: Viewing America

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH October 10, 2025 – January 4, 2026

Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, OH

October 10, 2025 – January 4, 2026

NEW AMERICAN SCENERY: The Art of Paul Scott: Paul Scott’s New American Scenery at the Cincinnati Art Museum will open at its 8th tour location on October 10th, 2025. “PAUL SCOTT: Viewing America” marks the artist’s sixth solo show in the US, spanning 2019 to 2026. 

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION


Exhibition Details In Development

In New American Scenery, Scott scrutinizes the American landscape from a contemporary perspective, one that grapples with issues of globalization, energy generation and consumption, capitalism, social justice, immigration, and the human impact on the environment. The images that Scott creates for his ceramics depict unsettling views of nuclear power plants, aging urban centers, abandoned industrial sites, wildfires, and isolating walls. As representations of the American landscape, they suggest a subversion of the picturesque aesthetic—the unpicturesque picturesque—and a new, disturbing norm.

“NAS” includes the following bodies of work, many of which were conceived on location and/or with insights from significant collaborators. Each title below represents a sub-series containing multiple iterations and/or designs: American Cities & Landscapes, Broken Treaties, Energy & Environment, Posy Vases, Race, Indigeneity & Immigration, Samplers, Sampler Jugs, Souvenirs, Views of New York.

English, b. 1953, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, England
lives and works in Cumbria, UK

Paul Scott is a Cumbrian-based artist with a diverse practice and an international reputation. Creating individual pieces that blur the boundaries between fine art, craft and design, he is well known for research into printed vitreous surfaces, as well as his characteristic blue and white artworks in glazed ceramic.

Scott’s artworks can be found in public collections around the globe – including The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Norway, the Victoria and Albert Museum London, National Museums Liverpool, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh and Brooklyn Art Museum USA. Commissioned work can be found in a number of UK museums as well as public places in the North of England, including Carlisle, Maryport, Gateshead and Newcastle Upon Tyne. He has also completed large-scale works in Hanoi, Vietnam and GuldagergĂ„rd public sculpture park in Denmark.

A combination of rigorous research, studio practice, curation, writing and commissioned work ensures that his work is continually developing. It is fundamentally concerned with the re-animation of familiar objects, landscape, pattern and a sense of place. He was Professor of Ceramics at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) from 2011–2018. Scott received his Bachelors of Art Education and Design at Saint Martin’s College and Ph.d at the Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design in Manchester, England.

His current research project New American Scenery has been enabled by an Alturas Foundation artist award, Ferrin Contemporary, and funding from Arts Council England. More on New American Scenery, here.

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Additional works may be available to acquire, but not listed here.

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