Wendy Red Star’s multimedia practice explores Indigenous roots of feminism and cultural heritage as well as archival and historical narratives, often highlighting how boundaries between cultural, racial, social, and gender identities are reinforced.
Wendy Red Star (born 1981, Billings, MT) lives and works in Portland, OR. Red Star has exhibited in the United States and abroad at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY), both of which hold her works in their permanent collections; Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain (Paris, France), Domaine de Kerguéhennec (Bignan, France), Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR), Hood Museum of Art (Hanover, NH), Saint Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO), and Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN), among others.
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY), the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, TX), the Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD), the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham, NC), the Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA), and the British Museum (London, UK), among others.
In 2017, Red Star was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and in 2018 she received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. Her first career survey exhibition, Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth, was on view at the Newark Museum of Art in Newark, NJ, through June 2019.
Red Star holds a BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and an MFA in sculpture from the University of California, Los Angeles.