Artist of the day, February 13: Wendy Red Star, a Native American visual artist (#916)

Artist Wendy Red Star works across disciplines to explore the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures, both historically and in contemporary society. Raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana, Red Star’s work is informed both by her cultural heritage and her engagement with many forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts, and performance. An avid researcher of archives and historical narratives, Red Star seeks to incorporate and recast her research, offering new and unexpected perspectives in work that is at once inquisitive, witty and unsettling. Intergenerational collaborative work is integral to her practice, along with creating a forum for the expression of Native women’s voices in contemporary art.

Red Star has exhibited in the United States and abroad at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fondation Cartier pour l’ Art Contemporain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Portland Art Museum, Hood Art Museum, St. Louis Art Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, among others. She served a visiting lecturer at institutions including Yale University, the Figge Art Museum, the Banff Centre, National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Dartmouth College, CalArts, Flagler College, and I.D.E.A. Space in Colorado Springs. In 2017, Red Star was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and in 2018 she received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. In 2019 Red Star will have her first career survey exhibition at the Newark Museum in Newark New Jersey.

Red Star holds a BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and an MFA in sculpture from the University of California, Los Angeles. She lives and works in Portland, OR.

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2005, Ms. Wendy Red Star in the "Four Seasons: Indian Summer"

2006, Four Seasons: Fall

2006, Four Seasons: Spring

2006, Four Seasons: Winter

2006, The Last Thanks

2011, Medicine Rock Child

2011, Sits with the Stars

2011, Stirs up the Dust

2011, Walks in the Dark

2012, Nine Crow Clowns

2014, Beatrice Red Star Fletcher during various collaborations
at the Denver Art Museum

2014, Crow Clowns

2014, Peelatchiwaaxpaash Medicine Crow (Raven)
& the 1880 Crow Peace Delegations

2014, Peelatchiwaaxpaash Medicine Crow (Raven):
Aappiiwaaxaaxiish Shining Shell

2014, Red Star annotated 19th-century images of Crow chiefs

2014, wool Apsaalooke dress

2015, we-parade, Crows Shadow Native American art indigenous pattern

2016,  Tokens, Gold, and Glory

2016, A Scratch on the Earth

2016, Apsáalooke Feminist #3 — Apsáalooke Feminist Series

2016, from Parading Culture (Tokens, Gold, and Glory)​

2016, Um-basax-bilua, ‘Where They Make the Noise’

2017, Portrait of Perits-Har-Sts (Old Crow) and With His Wife,
1873 Peace Delegation Series

2019, Ashkaamne (matrilineal inheritance)

2019, Parade Rider: Tommy Little Owl

2019, Parade Rider: Unidentified