SELECT EXHIBITIONS 1983 - Present

Participated in over 100 solo and group exhibits

  • 2001 Kentucky Visions:2001, Regional Juried Exhibition, Governor’s Mansion, Frankfort,KY 
  • Nocturnal Illumination, Solo Exhibit, Mullane’s, Cincinnati, OH
  • 2000 University Club Annual Show, Group Invitational, Cincinnati, OH 
  • Night Vision, Solo Exhibition, Irma Lazarus Center for Enjoy the Arts, Cincinnati, OH 
  • Christmas Exhibit, Group Invitational, The Golden Lamb, Lebanon, OH 
  • 1999 Duveneck Memorial Art Show, Juried Competition, Covington, KY Received Best of Show Award 
  • View Point-`99, National Juried Competition, Cincinnati Art Club, Cincinnati, OH. . 
  • Best of Bittners Artists: Curated by Daniel Brown, Group Exhibit, Bittners, Kenwood, OH. 
  • Luminescence, Solo Exhibition, Attic Gallery, Newport, KY 
  • Cinergy Collection, Regional Juried Traveling Exhibition, Various Locations in KY, OH, & IN. 
  • 35th Annual Greater Hamilton Exhibit, Juried competition, Fitton Center, Hamilton, OH 
  • Radiant Reflections, Solo Exhibition, Irma Lazarus Center for Enjoy the Arts, Cincinnati, OH 
  • 1998 Duveneck Memorial Art Show, Juried Competition, Covington, KY Received Duveneck Award. 
  • Christmas in July, Solo Exhibition, Rosebrook Art Center, Florence, KY 
  • Midnight Oil, Solo Exhibition, Irma Lazarus Center for Enjoy the Arts, Cincinnati, OH 1997 
  • The 7th Annual Art Show & Exhibition, Juried Competition, Cinergy Lobby, Cincinnati, OH. Received Second Place Award. 
  • Feed the Body Feed the Soul, International Juried Competition, Fitton Center, Hamilton, OH. Work Selected for Jurors Choice Gallery. 
  • Newport Nightscapes, Solo Exhibition, Attic Gallery, Newport, KY
  •  Dusk to Dawn, Solo Exhibition, Mullane's Parkside Cafe, Cincinnati, OH 1996 
  • View Point `96, Regional Juried Competition, Cincinnati Art Club, Cincinnati, OH 
  • A Little Night Color, Solo Exhibition, Stained Glass Theater, Newport, KY 
  • 11th Hour Meditations, Solo Exhibition, Attic Gallery, Newport, KY 
  • 1989 The Core Show, Group Exhibit, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX 
  • One Man Exhibition, Yvonne Rapp Gallery, Louisville, KY 

Select QUOTES 

"Newport artist Tom Mitts is Greater Cincinnati's painter of light - and of dark and snowy evenings. His paintings evoke the moods of old Newport at night, in a charming and original way." .... Owen Findsen, Cincinnati Enquirer. 

"Pastel is the medium in which Mitts excels." .... Jerry Stein, Cincinnati Post.

 "Using the nuances of darkness and light, the subtle reflections of glistening water or the softness of freshly fallen snow, Mitts' paintings feel wet and cold, but warmly real at the same time." .... Donna Herald, Kentucky Post. 

"The street scenes verged on the dangerous and foreboding; they realized a risky but inviting mystery tinted by anxiety, .... Mitts tries with some real success to perform the vital artistic magic of expressing the eternal in the moment. This... especially makes Mitts' work worth looking at." .... Lee Horvitz, Antenna Arts Magazine. 

Select Collections 

  • State Senator Stanley Aronoff (retired), Cincinnati, OH 
  • Sharon Butler (The Bonbonerie), Cincinnati, OH 
  • Cincinnati Financial Corp., Cincinnati ,OH 
  • First Baptist Church, Newport, KY 
  • Footlighters Inc., Newport, KY 
  • Chief Thomas Fromme, Newport,KY
  •  Dr. George Haney, Cincinnati, OH
  •  Thom Hanser, Villa Hills, KY 
  • David Hosea, Ft. Thomas, KY 
  • Keating, Muething & Klekamp, Cincinnati, OH 
  • Kessans Consulting, Newport, KY 
  • Nina Kirkland (Coldwell Banker), Danville, KY 
  • Patricia LaRosa, Newport, KY
  •  Northern Kentucky Heritage League,Highlands Heights,KY 
  • Ronda & Doug Roell (Arnold's Restaurant), Cincinnati,OH 
  • Mark Rottinghaus (Stewart Iron Works), Covington,KY 
  • Bob & Norma Schnieder (Sweet Tooth Candies), Newport,KY 
  • Dr. Crickette Todd, Cincinnati, OH

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