Wendy Red Star (b. 1981, Billings, Montana; lives and works in Portland, Oregon) is an Apsáalooke artist whose multidisciplinary practice is grounded in the histories, archives, and lived knowledge of the Apsáalooke Nation. Raised in the district of Pryor in Montana, her work grows from the stories passed through her family, the materials she encounters in historical records, and the lineage she carries forward — research, image-making, and material experimentation operating as a single movement in which histories reassemble through form rather than explanation, and time is felt through repetition, return, and proximity rather than linear narration. She received her BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and her MFA in Sculpture from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her work has been recognized with numerous awards including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (2017), the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2018), the MacArthur Fellowship (2024), and an Honorary Doctorate from Montana State University, Bozeman (2025). Her first career survey, Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth, opened at the Newark Museum in 2019 and traveled to the San Antonio Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum of Art, and recent exhibitions include presentations at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, the British Museum, and The Broad, Los Angeles. Her work is held in more than eighty public collections worldwide — among them MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the British Museum — and in 2027, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., will present a major solo exhibition of her work.
Wendy Red Star (b. 1981, Billings, Montana; lives and works in Portland, Oregon) is an Apsáalooke artist whose multidisciplinary practice is grounded in the histories, archives, and lived knowledge of the Apsáalooke Nation. Raised in the district of Pryor in Montana, her work grows from the stories passed through her family, the materials she encounters in historical records, and the lineage she carries forward — research, image-making, and material experimentation operating as a single movement in which histories reassemble through form rather than explanation, and time is felt through repetition, return, and proximity rather than linear narration. She received her BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and her MFA in Sculpture from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her work has been recognized with numerous awards including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (2017), the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2018), the MacArthur Fellowship (2024), and an Honorary Doctorate from Montana State University, Bozeman (2025). Her first career survey, Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth, opened at the Newark Museum in 2019 and traveled to the San Antonio Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum of Art, and recent exhibitions include presentations at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art, the British Museum, and The Broad, Los Angeles. Her work is held in more than eighty public collections worldwide — among them MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the British Museum — and in 2027, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., will present a major solo exhibition of her work.