| 2023 |
Art Renewal Center, 16th International Salon Competition, Finalist, Portraiture Category |
| 2022 |
Alex Ferrone Gallery, “The Landscape,” Second Prize, Juror: John Paul Caponigro |
| 2020 |
Art Renewal Center, 14th International Salon Competition, Finalist |
| 2019 |
TRAC, The Representational Art Conference, Ventura, CA, conference exhibition, Cerulean Prize |
| 2018 |
Portrait Society of America, Members Only competition, Finalist in Commissions category |
| 2014 |
Art of the State, PA State Museum, First prize in works on paper |
| 2014 |
Art of the State, PA State Museum, purchase award |
| 2012–2014 |
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Finalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, exhibit Feb. 2013 – March 2014 |
| 2012 |
Art Renewal Center 2011-2012, Finalist in Figure, International Salon |
| 2012 |
Portrait Society of America, members’ competition, first honorable mention in Self-Portraits |
| 2011 |
ACOPAL competition, America China Oil Painting Artists League, finalist |
| 2010 |
Salmagundi Club Award, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Competition, National Arts Club, New York, NY |
| 2010 |
Portrait Society of America, members’ competition, fourth prize in Still Life |
| 2010 |
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown Ohio, one of ten artists invited to participate in the “Inspiring Figures” exhibition of women figure painters |
| 2009 |
Art Association of Harrisburg, PA, National Juried Show, second prize |
| 2006 |
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Finalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, July 1, 2006 to Feb. 19, 2007 |
| 2006 |
Art Association of Harrisburg, National Juried Show, First Prize in Painting |
| 2004 |
Art Association of Harrisburg, Best of Show, National Juried Competition |
| 2001 |
PA State Museum, Harrisburg, PA, First Prize in Painting, Art of the State |
| 2000 |
PA State Museum, Art of the State, First Prize in Painting, Harrisburg, PA |
| 1997 |
Art Association of Harrisburg, First Prize, National Juried Show |
| 1996 |
Gallery Alexy and The Contemporary Cultural Center, Philadelphia, PA, Best of Show, Contemporary Realism II, Juror: Sydney Goodman |
| 1996 |
Elizabethtown College, Second Prize, Sixth Annual PA Juried Exhibit, Art Association of Harrisburg, PA, Elizabethtown, PA, Juror: Linda Cunningham. |
| 1995 |
Art Association of Harrisburg, PA, First Prize in Painting, National Juried Exhibition |
| 1992 |
State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA, First Prize in Painting, Art of the State |
| 1979 |
Mill Gallery, Rochester, NY, First Prize, Rochester Women in the Arts |
| 2015 |
North Park University Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Person,” curated by Tim Lowly |
| 2014 |
Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, "Catherine Prescott: Recent Paintings," Gallery II |
| 2012 |
Hersh Fine Art, Glen Cove, New York, review, American Arts Quarterly |
| 2009 |
YorkArts, York, Pennsylvania |
| 2003 |
The Phillips Museum, Dana Gallery, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA |
| 2003 |
Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA |
| 2002 |
Messiah College, Grantham, PA |
| 1994 |
Messiah College, Grantham, PA |
| 1988 |
Gordon College, Wenham, MA |
| 1987 |
Messiah College, Grantham, PA |
| 1986 |
Greenville College, Greenville, IL |
| 1985 |
Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, MD |
| 1981 |
Messiah College, Grantham, PA |
| 2024–2025 |
a portrait, A Portrait Project, Lancaster Museum of Art, organized and conceived by Milt Friedly |
| 2024 |
a portrait, A Portrait Project, Elizabethtown College, group show Curated by George Krevsky |
| 2024 |
“Susquehanna Inspired, 3 Centuries of Artistic Interpretation,” Creative York, curated by Rob Evans |
| 2022 |
State Museum of Pennsylvania, Art of the State, Annual Juried Exhibition |
| 2021–2023 |
CIVA traveling show, Portraits From the Collection of Edward C. Knippers |
| 2021 |
State Museum of Pennsylvania, Art of the State, Annual Juried Exhibition |
| 2020 |
State Museum of Pennsylvania, Art of the State Annual Juried Exhibition |
| 2018 |
“Mostra,” Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts: a juried exhibition of professors and students celebrating 20 years of the art-intensive semester abroad program, Gordon in Orvieto |
| 2018 |
Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, “Portraits and Their Stories,” an exhibition of portraits by 30 historically significant Twentieth Century artists and featuring my work with four portraits. |
| 2017–2018 |
Christians in the Visual Arts, "The Beautiful," a traveling exhibit curated by Mary McCleary |
| 2017 |
State Museum of Pennsylvania, 50 Years of Purchase Prizes, curated by Amy Hammond |
| 2017 |
“Women Painting Women: In Earnest,” curated by Alia El-Bermani and Diane Feissel, Custom House Museum, Clarksville, TN, and traveling to J Wayne Stark Galleries, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX |
| 2017 |
Santa Clara U. Gallery, Santa Clara, CA, “Honoring the Legacy of David Park,” curator John Seed |
| 2017 |
Abend Gallery, Denver, CO, Sight Unseen, curator Alia El-Bermani |
| 2016 |
Principle Gallery, Charleston, “Tribute to Emanuel Nine: A Portrait Project” |
| 2015–2016 |
Governor’s Residence, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Arts Experience |
| 2015–2016 |
Messiah College Climenhaga Galleries, paintings from the permanent collection, Grantham, PA |
| 2015 |
Inaugural Exhibit of the Pennsylvania Arts honoring the Inauguration of Governor Tom Wolf and First Lady Frances Wolf, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg |
| 2014 |
Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA, “Pay it Forward,” Women Painting Women |
| 2014 |
Doshi Gallery, PA State Museum, juried exhibit, “Lost/Found World” |
| 2013 |
Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA, Women Painting Women |
| 2012 |
PA State Museum, Art of the State annual juried exhibition, Harrisburg |
| 2012 |
“The Expedition and Beyond,” Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA |
| 2011 |
PA State Museum, Art of the State annual juried exhibition |
| 2011 |
Doshi Special Exhibition, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg |
| 2010 |
Robert Lange Studios, Charleston, S.C, “Women Painting Women” |
| 2010 |
PA State Museum, Art of the State annual juried exhibition |
| 2010 |
82nd National Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg |
| 2010 |
“Figure 8,” Elizabethtown College Invitational, Elizabethtown, PA |
| 2009 |
PA State Museum, Art of the State annual juried exhibition |
| 2009 |
81st Annual International Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg |
| 2008 |
Susquehanna Museum of Art, Harrisburg, PA, “Celebrate DOSHI” |
| 2007 |
“Portraiture: A Philadelphia Tradition,” Wayne Art Center, Philadelphia |
| 2007 |
Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY, “Figurative” |
| 2007 |
Andreeva Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, portraits by faculty members |
| 2005 |
"New Philadelphia Realists," Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia |
| 2005 |
"Out of Line," Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Drawing Show |
| 2005 |
Prescott and Prescott: Image and Substance, Brauer Museum of Art, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, two-person exhibition |
| 2004 |
“Masters and Mavericks: The Nude,” Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia |
| 2004 |
“Artists Talk,” exhibition and lecture on my work, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CN, exhibition catalog |
| 2002 |
“Art of the State,” Susquehanna Museum, Harrisburg, PA juried show |
| 2000 |
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Annual Exhibition, National Arts Club, NY |
| 1999 |
Art Association of Harrisburg, Four-Person Invitational |
| 1999 |
“Reality Check,” Mill River Gallery, Ellicott City, MD, Invitational |
| 1999 |
Houghton College, Houghton, NY, Two-Person Exhibit |
| 1998 |
National Juried Show, Art Association of Harrisburg, Harrisburg, PA |
| 1996–1998 |
CIVA Creates the Portrait: Traveling Exhibit; Curators Lennart Anderson and Douglas Giebel |
| 1996 |
Biblical Arts Center Museum, Dallas, TX |
| 1996 |
Contemporary Realists at the Doshi Center for Contemporary Art, Harrisburg, PA |
| 1996 |
Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, Two-Person Exhibit |
| 1995 |
Bade Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA |
| 1994 |
“Searching for the Hidden,” C. S. Lewis Summer Institute, Cambridge, England, Invitational |
| 1988 |
Art Association of Harrisburg, Annual National Juried Exhibit |
| 1988 |
Pennsylvania Painting Competition, Bucknell University, Juror: Clement Greenberg |
| 1987 |
Christians in Visual Arts, Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC |
| 1987 |
The Colorado College Alumni Exhibit, The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| 1985 |
Christians in Visual Arts, Wheaton, IL, Juror: David Tannous |
| 1985 |
Shelter '85, Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC, Juror: David Tannous |
| 1984 |
The Gallery, York, PA, Tri-State Exhibit, Juror: David Tannous |
| 1981 |
Doshi Gallery, Harrisburg, PA, Two-Person Exhibit |
| 2008 |
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Individual Artist’s Fellowship |
| 1988–1989 |
Pennsylvania Council on The Arts and National Endowment for The Arts, Artist in Residence, York Public Schools and Cumberland Valley Public School |
| 1966 |
University of Wisconsin, graduate painting for one summer |
| 1966 |
B.A., The Colorado College |
| Private collection, Hudson, MA |
| Penn State Health, Lancaster, PA |
| National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution |
| State Capitol of Pennsylvania, Office of the Governor |
| Private Collection, Mill Valley, California |
| York College, York, Pennsylvania |
| Private Collection, Arlington, Virginia |
| Private Collection, Philadelphia, PA |
| Private Collection, Middletown, PA |
| Private Collection, University Place, Washington |
| State Museum of Pennsylvania |
| Private Collection, York, PA |
| Private Collection, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania |
| Private Collection, NY, NY |
| Private Collection, Lake Charles, LA |
| Fulton Bank, Lancaster, PA |
| Private Collection, Tacoma, WA |
| Private Collection, Atlanta, GA |
| Private Collection, Grantham, PA |
| The Boyer Center, Messiah College, Grantham, PA |
| Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA |
| Turkey Hill Dairy, Conestoga, PA |
| Walworth Memorial Public Library, Walworth, WI |
| Pine Rest Christian Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI |
| Office of the President, Messiah College, Grantham, PA |
| Messiah College, permanent collection |
| Private Collection, Harrisburg, PA |
| Private Collection, Lewisberry, PA |
| Private Collection, Brooklyn, NY |
| Private Collection, Lancaster, PA |
| Private Collection, Kirchner, Ontario, Canada |
| Private Collection, Massillon, Ohio |
| Private Collection, Dillsburg, PA |
| Private Collection, Wenham, MA |
| Private Collection, Chicago, IL |
| Private Collection, State College, PA |
| Private Collection, Wellesley, MA |
| Private Collection, Etters, PA |
| Private Collection, Seelze, Germany |
| 2023 |
Art Renewal Center, International Realism, 16th International ARC Salon, catalog |
| 2020 |
Art Renewal Center, International Realism, 14th International ARC Salon catalog |
| 2019 |
CIVA, Christians in Visual Arts, full page reproduction, juried special section |
| 2019 |
CIVA, Christians in Visual Arts, Featured Artist of the Month, May 2019 online |
| 2019 |
TRAC, The Representational Art Conference, catalog of exhibitions |
| 2019 |
Image, Thirty Years, 100 Issues, essay, “Life After Thirty,” and full page reproduction |
| 2017 |
Fine Art Connoisseur, “The Emanuel Nine: Despair and The Power of the Sublime,” by Suzy Hart, September/October, 2017, Vol 14, Issue 5 |
| 2017 |
Patheos: The Anxious Bench blog, Agnes Howard comments on Tribute to the Emanuel Nine |
| 2016 |
Image Journal, Mary Kenagy comments on Tribute to Emanuel Nine: A Portrait Project, July 2016 |
| 2016 |
CIVA, Christians in Visual Arts, interview about Tribute to the Emanuel Nine: A Portrait Project, by Kate Austin, July 7 |
| 2016 |
Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center, publisher of American Arts Quarterly, “In the Studio: Catherine Prescott and Theodore Prescott,” interview and studio visit, by Allison Malafronte, July blog |
| 2016 |
IAM, International Arts Movement, founded and directed by Mako Fujimura, interview with editor Alissa Wilkinson for the "Culture Care Newsletter," July Issue, about Tribute to Emanuel Nine: A Portrait Project |
| 2014 |
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian, interview, "face2face: portrait of an artist" |
| 2013 |
Fine Art Connoisseur, October issue, “Women Painting Women: (R)evolution” by Nancy Bea Miller, full color reproduction P. 101 |
| 2013 |
The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013, Smithsonian, National Portrait Gallery, catalog, essay by Mary Sherrif, color reproduction |
| 2013 |
Huffington Post, Julia Clift, “Refreshingly Real Women: The Portraiture of Catherine Prescott,” March 16, 2013 |
| 2013 |
The Lucky Compiler, interview: Making the Interior Exterior |
| 2012 |
American Arts Quarterly, Fall, 2012 issue, editorial review of my solo exhibit at Hersh Fine Art with full color reproduction |
| 2012 |
25A, Gold Coast Luxury Magazine, Long Island NY, feature on Hersh Fine Art solo exhibit with full color reproduction |
| 2012 |
Record Pilot, Glen Cove, NY, feature article, reproduction, June 14 |
| 2012 |
Art Renewal Center International Salon, 2012 finalists, catalog |
| 2012 |
CIVA SEEN, XII: 2012, “Catherine Prescott: Behind the Face,” by Crystal Downing. Feature article with color reproductions |
| 2012 |
American Art Collector, April 2012, “The Expedition and Beyond”, P. 120, full-page color reproduction P. 122 |
| 2010 |
Inspiring Figures, catalog of exhibition at The Butler Institute of American Art, published by The Portrait Society of America, 2010 |
| 2010 |
American Art Collector, August 2010, “Inspiring Figures,” by Lauren Harris and Gordon Wetmore, full-color reproduction P. 73 |
| 2009 |
The Art of the Portrait, Vol.11, Issue #45, “Catherine Prescott: Paint and Passion,” feature article with 2 full-color reproductions by L.L. Winner |
| 2009 |
Bearing The Mystery, Twenty Years of Image, edited by Gregory Wolfe, full-page color reproduction |
| 2009 |
The Art of the Portrait, Vol. 11, Issue #43, “Introducing the Invitational Artists” article on exhibit at Butler Institute of American Art, 2010, full-color reproduction |
| 2009 |
The Beauty of God: Theology and The Arts, ed. by Daniel J. Trier, Mark Husbands, and Roger Lundin, “The Case For A Broken Beauty”, by E. John Walford, pp. 105, 106, with reproduction |
| 2008 |
Mars Hill Audio, interview about my work on the subject of Reading |
| 2007 |
The Main Line Today, November 1, “Wayne Art Center celebrates the tradition of portraiture,” by Marie Fowler, full color reproduction |
| 2007 |
Patriot News, Harrisburg, PA, feature article with full color reproduction |
| 2006 |
Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, Smithsonian, Washington, D.C., catalog, essay by Dave Hickey |
| 2005 |
Prescott and Prescott: Image and Substance, catalog published by The Brauer Museum, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, essay by David Morgan |
| 2004 |
Artists Talk, catalog, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CN |
| 2003 |
The Intelligencer Journal, Lancaster, PA, feature article, “Art with a Heart,” by Carla Difonzo, November 14 |
| 2002 |
Image, A Journal of the Arts and Religion, no. 36, cover article, “Painting Poems: The Psychological Portraits of Catherine Prescott,” by Kate Daniels |
| 2001 |
CIVA Directory: full page color reproduction, juried special color section |
| 2000 |
American Arts Quarterly, summer/fall issue, “Insight, Essence and the Beloved: The Interior Portraits of Catherine Prescott,” by Karen L. Mulder |
| 1999 |
CIVA Directory: full page color reproduction, juried special color section |
| 1999 |
The Bridge, Messiah College Magazine: full color reproduction, back cover |
| 1994 |
The Times, Walworth, WI, feature article, about my large, commissioned painting for the public library, May 25 |
| 1982 |
The Evening News, Harrisburg, PA, feature article by Jan Chaplick, April 14 |
| 1982 |
The Quarterly Review, Lancaster, PA, Cover photo and interview, April |
| 1982 |
The Bridge, Messiah College Alumni Magazine, feature article, January |
| 1979 |
Prism, Roberts Wesleyan College Alumni Magazine, feature article, June |
| 1979 |
Richmond News Leader, Richmond, VA, feature article |
| 2022 |
Upper House, Madison, Wisconsin, presentation, “Let the Art Speak,” see Artist’s Statement page for link to interview |
| 2019 |
TRAC, The Representational Art Conference, presentation, “Manifestations of Modernism in 21st Century Paintings,” Ventura, California |
| 2017 |
Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center, American Arts Quarterly blog, essay "Women Painting Women: In Earnest" |
| 2015 |
Arte E Fede, “Looking for the Face of Mercy,” public lecture, Dec 7, 2015, Orvieto, Italy |
| 2009 |
Image, “Four Corners: Painters Frame Contemporary Painting,” essay on the state of painting from a portrait-painter’s point of view |
| 2007 |
CIVA Seen, “Influences,” essay for the CIVA Newsletter, August, 2015 |
| 1999 |
CIVA 20/20, Christians in Visual Arts, conference, “Where Have All the Realists Gone? Recent Trends in Representational Painting,” Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| 2020 |
CIVA, Ring Line Central, “Maker to Maker”, moderator for Christians In Visual Arts online portrait painters’ group session |
| 2015 |
Prize Juror, Art of the State Annual Juried Exhibit, Pennsylvania State Museum |
| 2013 |
Prize Juror, York Art Association, York, PA |