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 Ap- sáalooke 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. e places, people, and histories that shaped her early life continue to guide her research and artistic process.

Her practice is rooted in sustained attention to inherited stories, to archival traces, and to the ways Ap- sáalooke history lives across generations. She approaches historical materials through the lens of her own lineage, allowing relationships between memory, record, and lived experience to emerge through time and close looking. Her work grows from this process of gathering, listening, and assembling rather than from any impulse to explain or correct the historical record.

Red Star received her BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and her MFA in Sculpture from the University of California, Los Angeles. 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), the Bonnie Bronson Fellowship (2024), and the Infinity Award in Contemporary Pho- tography and New Media (2024). In 2025 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Montana State University, Bozeman.

In 2019, her first career survey, Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth, opened at the Newark Museum and traveled to the San Antonio Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum of Art. Recent exhibitions include What It Becomes, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Future Imaginaries: Indigenous Art, Fash- ion, Technology, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; 19th Century Photography Now, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; e Land Carries Our Ancestors, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (traveling to the New Britain Museum of American Art); New Acquisitions: Paul Bril to Wendy Red Star, e British Museum, London; and is is Not America’s Flag, e Broad, Los Angeles.

Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at institutions including e Metropolitan Muse- um of Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum; Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris; Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan; Portland Art Museum, Portland; Hood Museum of Art, Hanover; Saint Louis Art Museum; Minneapolis Institute of Art; and the Frost Art Museum, Miami. In 2027, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., will present a major solo exhibition of her work.

Red Star’s work is held in more than eighty public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; e Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth; Denver Art Museum; Baltimore Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Smithson- ian American Art Museum; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; and the British Museum, London, among many others.