Since 1972, Signe Stuart has had 18 solo museum exhibitions including those at the Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, NE; North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND; American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, MN; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, SD and the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM. Her work has also been included in many museum group exhibitions, among them the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM; Burchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo, NY and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN. Stuart's numerous solo gallery shows over this time range geographically from: Jan Cicero, Chicago; Peter M. David, Minneapolis; Kate Ganz, NYC; Anderson/O'Brien, Omaha, William Siegal, Santa Fe, and Pie Projects Contemporary Art, Santa Fe.

From 1989 to 2014, Stuart created several room size installations incorporating sound, light, and sensors, utilizing industrial materials styrofoam, tyvek, and vacuuforms. These environments focussed on implications of diverse connective systems and cultural interventions in nature. Installation effects ranged from meditative to sensory overload. Onomatopoeia, one of Stuart's 60 foot wide abstract narrative scroll paintings was the subject of a new music composition by composer Jonathan Chenette (Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY). Onomatopoeia premiered with a performance at the Albuquerque Art Museum in 2010 in conjunction with the exhibition 'Crossing Boundaries: Synesthesia in American Art.'

During her career, Signe has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Painting Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts mural commissions, a South Dakota Arts Council Artist Fellowship and a New Mexico Experimental Glass Workshop Fellowship. She received several purchase awards including a Ford Foundation Purchase - Seattle Art Museum. Teaching, lectures and artist residencies include: Professor of Art, South Dakota State University; visiting artist, Williams College, MA; U-Cross Foundation Residency, WY and Cowles Visiting Artist at Grinnell College, IA.

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