Wendy Red Star

American, Apsáalooke, born 1981

BiographyWendy Red Star is a contemporary multimedia artist born in Billings, Montana, in 1981, and now based in Portland, Oregon. She is of Apsa’alooke and Irish descent and was reared in Pryor, Montana, on the Crow reservation. She studied sculpture at Montana State University in Bozeman (BFA 2004) and earned her MFA from the University of California-Los Angeles (2006). She has been an exhibiting artist since 2003. Her multimedia works explore the intersections of traditional Native American culture and contemporary society. Her work is in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Hood Museum, Crocker Museum of Art, and the National Museum of the American Indian, among others. She has been awarded grants including the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship, the Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship, and others.

The Apsáalooke people (“children of the large beaked bird”) were misnamed the Crow people by European settlers and today both terms are used. (Ware 2016)

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