Wendy Red Star

Wendy Red Star (born 1981, Billings, MT) is a multimedia artist whose 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. 

Red Star lives and works in Portland, Oregon. The artist has exhibited across the United States and internationally at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY) and 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); St. Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO); and the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN); 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 (Newark, NJ) through June 2019. 

Red Star holds a BFA from Montana State University (Bozeman, MT) and a MFA in sculpture from UCLA (Los Angeles, CA).