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Ruth Dealy is an award-winning painter living and working in Providence, Rhode Island.

Dealy is the daughter of physicist David H. Frisch and biologist Rose Frisch. She was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and earned her bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design. She went on to teach at RISD for nine years.

Dealy works in acrylic paint as her medium. Her style has been described as "raw, paint-lashed." Dealy has exhibited work internationally, including exhibits at the RISD Museum, Indonesian National Gallery in Jakarta, and a retrospective at the Wriston Art Center

Awards
Italo Scanga fellowship, University of Rhode Island, 2010

Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts, 2004