Linda Alterwitz (American, b. 1960) is an independent interdisciplinary artist with a focus on photography. Her practice envisions the unseen rhythms of the human body and our relationship to the natural world, encouraging dialog around choice, trust, and collective experience. Viewing art as a catalyst for change, Alterwitz uses creative expression to engage complex societal challenges. By integrating the authenticity of science and the communicative power of art, she bridges the visible and the unseen, inviting viewers to reimagine their connections to one another and to the world around them.
A notable project, Injection Site was first exhibited in 2023 at the Front Door Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, and at The Center, the LGBTQ Community Center of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas. In 2025, Alterwitz exhibited the series and presented a conference paper at the FORMAT International Photography Festival in Derby, United Kingdom, and received a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship for the project. 2026 exhibitions include Injection Site at the College of Southern Nevada and at the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, presented in conjunction with the WSU School of Nursing.
In the decade preceding the COVID-19 pandemic, Alterwitz exhibited widely in both traditional gallery settings and site-specific installations at institutions including the Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, California (as part of PST ART: Art & Science Collide, a Getty initiative); the Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas, Nevada; the Hilliard Art Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana; the New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Yixian Photography Festival, Yixian, China; and Ring Cube Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, among others.
Her work is held in numerous permanent collections, including the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California; Hilliard Art Museum, University of Lafayette, Louisiana; Nevada Museum of Art – Institute for Art + Environment, Reno, Nevada; Nelson-Atkins Special Collections Library, Kansas City, Missouri; Fearing Library, Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara, California; Wallace Library, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York; Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada; and the Lilley Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Reno.
Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Orion Magazine, Black & White Photography (UK), Lenscratch, Musée Magazine, and The New Statesman, among others.
Alterwitz has received numerous awards and residencies, including an Individual Artist Grant from Healthy Communities Coalition (2023); Individual Artist Grants from the Nevada Arts Council (2020, 2016); support from the Montana Arts Council; an Artist Residency at the Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida; and an Individual Artist Grant from The Puffin Foundation (2015).
Alterwitz lives and works in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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