Deborah Salomon earned a BFA from the University of Rhode Island and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Philadelphia College of Art. She received a Dedalus Foundation Full Fellowship Award at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont (2010). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Santa Clara Medical Center, the Stanford Medical Center, the Imagery Estate Winery Collection, Neiman Marcus, Walnut Creek, California and CBRE at Salesforce Tower, San Francisco.