Judith R. Peterson Visual Art
  • Selected Photos
  • Power Grid Cats
  • Power Grid Slideshow
  • South Dak Med Journal
  • SD Med Journal Special Issues
  • SD Public Broadcasting
  • You are Still with Us
  • The Obesity Series Slideshow
  • The Picture of Health
  • The Genesis Project
  • The Death of the Dinosaurs
  • Botanical and Nature
  • Sports -Roller Derby
  • The Delbridge Museum of Natural History
  • Selected Exhibits
  • Interviews and press
  • Bio and CV

Judith R. Peterson photography and visual art have been used extensively for South Dakota Public Broadcasting, the South Dakota State Medical Association, and numerous publications including the Argus Leader of Sioux Falls and Harvard Magazine.

​Ink painting, illustration, and photography are primary interests. She does public health photography on an ongoing basis for the Healing Words Foundation.

Curriculum Vitae

 Education

Harvard University : BA Biology, Magna Cum Laude 
Cornell University:  Medical Doctor
Masters in Public Health: University of Minnesota


Selected Exhibits

Sioux Falls Public Library Downtown Branch
Coordinator Meaghan Murphy
August-September 2024



Mount Marty University;  Bede Art Gallery
Power Grid Cats; October 3-28 2023
Curator David Kahle


University of South Dakota
I.D. Weeks Library
​September -Decemeber 2022

Visual Arts Center; Washington Pavilion; Sioux Falls, SD.
"Cats, Tigers, Cats" Solo exhibit. March-June 2022

Curators  Cody Henrichs and Sarah Goth

University of South Dakota-Gallery 110; Power Grid Cats -series 2; April-May 2021
Curator Amy Fill

University of Sioux Falls. Power Grid Cats- series 1; Mar-April  2021
Curator Joe Schaeffer


Group show. Coordinator and Curator Sarah A. Hanson. Gallery 110. Warren M. Lee Center for Fine Arts. University of South Dakota.  Jan -Feb 2016
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December 2012- March 2013 P3 Group
Exhibit. Artist collaboration.  Visual artists and writers. Washington Pavilion. Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

November 2010-February 2011.  P3
Group Exhibit Nov 2010-Feb 2011. Washington Pavilion. Artist Collaboration Series.

August 2011-December 2011. University of South
Dakota. “you are still with us”. ID Weeks Library Galleries. 
Photographic series. Vermillion, SouthDakota.

February 2011-May 2011. Washington Pavilion. “Death of the Dinosaurs” Kirby Science Center. Solo
exhibit. Sioux Falls, South Dakota

June 2010-July 2010. National Museum of Roller
Skating. Lincoln, Nebraska. Women’s Roller Derby 
 
March-April 2010. The Genesis Project. University
of Sioux Falls. Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

 2010 February 8-26. The Genesis project; Mount Marty Bede Art Gallery; Mount Marty College; Yankton, South
Dakota

November 2009-- February 2010.   Flat track Mamas and Roller Babes; photography of women’s roller derby;
solo exhibit  Visual Arts Center; Washington Pavilion; Sioux Falls, South Dakota



Ongoing Series - Photography/Visual Art

​Healing Words Foundation;
South Dakota State Medical Journal - South Dakota Medicine ; ongoing series of photography responsive to medical essay topics. 

 Books  
 

The Picture of Health – A View from the Prairie 2008; Richard P. Holm author.
Photography by Judith R. Peterson.Agricultural Heritage Museum      
Press; South Dakota State University

Selected Honors and Awards  
 

The Picture of Health – A View from the Prairie
book chosen for the South Dakota Festival of Books for 
presentation; South Dakota Arts Council; Deadwood, South Dakota;  October 2009

Midwest Book Awards; Photo; 2008 Picture of
Health-A View from the Prairie; award winner photography Health
division

Selected Interviews:

 Argus Leader; She Magazine; Art in Action.  March
 2010

KDLT television news December
2009

Food for Thought; March 6, 2009; South Dakota
Public Radio

Art and Medicine;  December 18, 2008; South Dakota Public
  Television