Resume
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 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
2014-21 Pioneer Girl Project. Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography by Laura Ingalls Wilder. Pioneer Girl Perspectives: Exploring Laura Ingalls Wilder. Pioneer Girl: The Revised Texts. Pioneer Girl: The Path into Fiction, by Laura Ingalls Wilder. South Dakota Historical Society Press. Cover Art
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
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