Ron Porter (Middle Tennessee State, Ohio) is an artist whose oil paintings reflect ordered interiors with an occasional visual pun. He has received many awards for his work including two individual Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council in 1990 and 1993. Porter's paintings have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions from the Huntington Museum of Art in Ohio and the Contemporary Art Workshop in Chicago to the University of Shanghai in China. Porter's work was published in the 1995 and 1997 issues of New American Painting. The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and Franklin University are among the many public collections that include his work.