CV Peterson (Eau Claire/Chicago) is a multidisciplinary artist who combines scientific exploration and art to examine human-caused environmental devastation. Their work takes a whimsically dark and playful view of what the planet would be like after humanity is extinct.

CV has exhibited at the CICA Museum in South Korea, the Shanghai Zhu Qizhan Art Museum in China, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Nobel Conference on Climate Change hosted by Gustavus Adolphus College, and was toured through Europe by Universal Sea. They have performed at international performance festivals such as Out of Site Chicago, The Performance Arcade in New Zealand, and Detroit’s Forward Fringe Festival. They were in residency at Arteles Creative Center, Haukijärvi, Finland. Their current series of fungal sculptures are sponsored by Ecovative Design.

They received their MFA and BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as a BA from Gustavus Adolphus College where they graduated Magna Cum Laude and received Phi Beta Kappa. CV has curated Eco Art exhibitions in Chicago and Eau Claire, WI. They currently teach at UW-EC in the Honors Department and Art Department. They are the founder of Envisage Retreat.