The Collection

Wendy Red Star is a multidisciplinary artist and an enrolled member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Tribe. Working across photography, sculpture, installation, and performance, she explores the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures, often using humor and satire to challenge romanticized depictions of Indigenous people while affirming their contemporary presence. Drawing on archival materials, pop culture, and Crow traditions, her work re-centers Native voices within historical and cultural narratives.

Red Star holds a BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and an MFA in sculpture from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited at major institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, the Broad, the Getty Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Fondation Cartier (Paris), and the South London Gallery in partnership with the V&A Museum. In 2023, her monumental sculpture The Soil You See… was presented on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., as part of Beyond Granite: Pulling Together, and later acquired by Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana.

Her work is in over sixty public collections, and her career survey A Scratch on the Earth (2019–23) traveled nationally. She is the author of Delegation (2022) and Bíilukaa (2023). Honors include the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award (2017), a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2018), an Anonymous Was A Woman Grant (2022), and a MacArthur Fellowship (2024). Red Star is represented by Sargent’s Daughters (New York) and Roberts Projects (Los Angeles).