Scott McNeill was born in Washington D.C. in 1969, he grew up on the east coast and graduated from Clemson University in 1991. After college, Scott became a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras. His job assignment took him to Valle de Angeles, an artisan village that specialized in woodcraft and ornate woodcarving. Scott lived there as Volunteer for the next two years, working as a consultant to the National Association of Honduran Artists. During his term of service, Scott worked closely with hundreds of artisans on many different projects and was accepted into their workshops and community as if he had lived there his whole life.

When his Peace Corps service ended in September of 1994, Scott was invited to apprentice relief woodcarving in the workshop of a renowned Honduran woodcarver and worked there for an additional two years.  Scott learned quickly.  He began painting his carved sculptures, and the town's artisans recognized him for having 'una gracia' (a gift). 

Scott returned to the United States in the fall of 1996, and almost immediately his painted sculptures took a big creative leap forward.  He began painting a different level of composition on top of the sculpted figures, resulting in a unique art style of intertwining layers and transcendent subject matter.  Scott has been developing and refining this new multiple dimensional art form for more than twelve years now.

In 2001 he was the inaugural recipient of the Dexter Jones Award, the ‘National Sculptors Award’ for outstanding bas-relief sculpture from the National Sculpture Society, NYC. In 2003 he was awarded an artist assistance grant from The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, followed by a grant in 2004 from The Artists' Fellowship Inc., NYC. Three art museums have exhibited Scott McNeill’s artwork, along with several art centers and galleries. His multiple dimensional painted sculptures are in numerous private collections in the United States and abroad. He currently works out of his studio in Scottsdale, Ariz.