Judy Thompson
Orange City, Iowa
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 Becoming Midwest: Life Between (with poet Kristin Gifford), Sioux Falls, SD.
2025 Depth and Breadth: Rehfelds Modern, Sioux Falls, SD.
2024 Confluence, Watercolors by Judy Thompson, Dordt University, Sioux Center, IA.
2023 Judy Thompson: On the Homestead. Bone Creek Museum of Agrarian Art, David City, NE.
2020 Boundless: Watercolors by Judy Thompson, Northwestern College, Orange City, IA.
2015 The Art of Pioneering. Sioux City Public Museum. Great Plains Art Museum, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Cultural Heritage Center, Pierre, SD. Homestead National Historical Park, Beatrice, NE. Presentation College, Aberdeen, SD. W. H. Over Museum, Vermillion, SD.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 Richeson75 International Art Competition: Landscape, Seascape and Architecture, Online.
2026 Still Becoming: America at 250, ,Center for Western Studies, Sioux Falls, SD.
2026 Orange City Arts 2026 Summer Regional Art Show, Orange City, IA.
2026 Rivers of the Plains, Center for Western Studies, Sioux Falls, SD.
2025 Homeland, Women Artists of the West National Juried Exhibition, Clarksville, TN.
2025 Local Perspectives, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA.
2024 Coors Western Art Exhibit and Sale, Denver, CO.
2024 Heartland Horizons, Washington Pavilion Visual Art Center, Sioux Falls, SD.
2017 The Figure Show, Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Minnetonka, MN.
2011-13 Richeson 75 International: Small Works and Figure/Portrait, Kimberly, WI.
2912 Wanda J. Skogerboe Exhibition. Pearson Lakes Art Center, Okoboji, IA.
2009-12 Iowa Watercolor Society Annual Juried and Traveling Exhibitions.
Awards and Honors
2025 Publisher's Award: Art of the West, Homeland Exhibition, Women Artists of the West.
2025 Best of Show, Orange City Arts Regional Exhibition, Orange City, IA.
2013-19 Grant Awards. South Dakota Arts Council, Touring Arts Program.
2011-13 Finalist and Meritorious Awards. Richeson 75 International Competitions.
2011 Grant Award. Iowa Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts.
2010 Best of Show. Iowa Watercolor Society Annual Juried Competition.
*Signature Status, Iowa Watercolor Society
Artist Residencies
2016-19, 22 Sylvan Lake, Custer State Park, Custer, SD.
2013-15 Badlands National Park, National Park Service, Interior, SD.
2010, 11 Homestead National Historical Park, Beatrice, NE.
Selected Public and Corporate Collections
Avera Health. Sioux Center, Rock Valley, Rock Rapids, IA. Sioux Falls, Pierre, Gettysburg, Yankton, SD.
Sanford Health: Edith Sanford Breast Cancer Center. The Castle Children’s Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD.
State of South Dakota. Art in State Buildings.
Badlands National Park, Department of Interior, Interior, SD.
Homestead National Historical Park, Department of Interior, Beatrice, NE.
Center for Western Studies, Augustana University, Sioux Falls, SD.
Northwestern College, Orange City, IA.
South Dakota Historical Society Press, Pierre, SD.
Betty Strong Encounter Center, Sioux City, IA.
Special Projects
2022 Annals of Iowa, Spring, 2022, State Historical Society of Iowa. Cover Art.
2021 Writing the Land: Foodways and Social Justice, Nature Culture LLC. Illustration.
2021 Bright, Clear Sky Over a Plain So Wide, by Harry F. Thompson, The Center for Western Studies. Cover Art.
Bibliography
2026 Capital-Democrat, June 25, Front Page/Feature Article.
2026 Empire Magazine, Spring, 2026. Feature Article.
2026 Northwest Iowa Review, April 11 2025. Front Page/Feature Article.
2026 Capital-Democrat, April 7, Front Page/Feature Article.
2025 Art of the West, September/October, Awarded Advertisement.
2025 Northwest Iowa Review, March 6, 2025. Feature Article.
2022 Association of University Presses Scholarly Typographic Award, Pioneer Girl, the Revised Texts, Cover Art.
2022 Orange City Magazine, Spring, 2022, Iowa Information, Inc., Feature Article.
2021 Empire Magazine, Spring, 2021. Feature Article.
2018 SD Public Radio Interview; Lori Walsh on In the Moment.
2017 Arts Alive, Summer, 2017 - Cover/Feature Article, Arts South Dakota.
2016 Family Living, August 15, 2016 - Cover/Feature Article, Iowa Farm Bureau.
2015 Publishers Weekly, November 2, 2015 - Cover Art.
2013 Wheaton College Alumni Magazine, Autumn, 2013. Cover Art.
2012 Nebraska Life Magazine, March/April, Cover Art & Feature Article.
Affiliations
Women Artists of the West. WAOW. Associate Member.
Iowa Watercolor Society, Signature Member.
Great Plains Watercolor Society: member, workshop instructor.
Representation
Rehfelds Modern, Sioux Falls, SD.
Prairie Edge Fine Art, Rapid City, SD.
Lanesboro Arts, Lanesboro, MN.