Awards & Honors
2021 26th Annual Regional Juried Exhibition
Southwestern Pennsylvania Council for the Arts
Third Place, Ligonier, PA
2020 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Biennial
Third Place Award, Housebacks
Loretto, PA
Artist/Scholar in residence, Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright House
Mill Run, PA 2020
2018 A Proclamation, City of Pittsburgh
Ron Donoughe Day, August 1, 2018
City of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
2018 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Biennial
First Place Award, Elliott Shadows
Loretto, PA
2017 IUP Alumni Association
Distinguished Alumni Award
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA
2016 Bottle Works
Artist Hall of Fame Honoree
Johnstown, PA
2014 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Biennial
First Place Award, Immaculate Heart of Mary
Loretto, PA
2013 Plein Air Mt Lebanon
Winner, Quick Draw Competition
Pittsburgh, PA
2012 Plein Air Easton!
Easton Plein Air Event, Honorable Mention
Easton, MD
2010 Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh
100th Annual, Associated Artists Annual,
Clara C. Wittmer Award
Pittsburgh, PA
2010 Purchase Award, Associated Artists
Annual, Pittsburgh, PA
Acquired by Point Park University
2004 Ruddy Landscape Painting Award, Associated Artists
Annual, Pittsburgh, PA
2003 Best of Show, Three Rivers Arts Festival
Pittsburgh, PA
1999 Best of Show, Cranberry Art Invitational
LaRoche College, Pittsburgh, PA
1999 Award Winner, Art for Aids
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
1989 Juror’s Award, Pittsburgh Society of Artists
Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA
1984 Juror’s Award, Pittsburgh Society of Artists
Pittsburgh, PA
1980 Honorable Mention, Penn State University Invitational
Altoona, PA
1979 Third Place Gold Metal, Young American Artist Show
Lucca, Italy
Education
1992-2000 Workshops with Wolf Kahn, Matt Smith and Ray Roberts
6/85-12/85 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Graduate studies in drawing and painting
6/76-12/80 Indiana University of PA
Bachelor of Science, Art Education
Membership
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
Founder, Plein Air Painters of Western Pennsylvania
Publications
Brownsville to Braddock, Paintings and Observations of the Monongahela River Valley
by Ron Donoughe, 121 pages, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020
Labor and Landscape, Paintings of the Allegheny Mountain Region
by Ron Donoughe, 120 pages, self-published, 2017
90 Pittsburgh Neighborhoods The paintings and experiences of artist Ron Donoughe
112 page book published by The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 2015
Paintings of Indiana County, Pennsylvania by Ron Donoughe
80 page book published by Indiana University of PA, 2011
Essence of Pittsburgh, The Paintings of Ron Donoughe in the Plein Air Style
150 page book published by The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 2007