Wendy Red Star
Roberts Projects is honored to announce representation of Wendy Red Star (Baaeétitchish – Does Things Well). This announcement follows the gallery’s first solo exhibition of Red Star’s work – Bíikkua (The Hide Scraper) – this past August.
Wendy Red Star, of the Piegan clan and from the district of Pryor, engages in a multidisciplinary artistic practice grounded in the history and cultural knowledge of the Apsáalooke (Crow) people. Raised on the Crow reservation in Montana, her work reflects her deep connection to her community, culture, and land.
Red Star's art recontextualizes United States history through a Crow lens, often challenging colonial narratives while elevating Crow experiences, traditions and stories. Through photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts and performance, Red Star’s work emphasizes the importance of Apsáalooke cultural practices and knowledge transmission, especially within her own family and community. Her rigorous research and focus on archival materials allows her to bring forward underrepresented aspects of Apsáalooke history, often intertwining wit and critical insight to challenge dominant narratives.
“This foundation is the main source for the inspiration behind all the work that I create… where I come from, the community that I’m from, the culture that I grew up in, the land that has molded my experience,” says Red Star, who sees her artistic practice as inseparable from her Apsáalooke identity. Additionally, Red Star’s work foregrounds the importance of amplifying Native women’s voices in the discourse of contemporary art.
About the Artist
Wendy Red Star (b.1981, Billings, Montana; lives and works in Portland, OR) holds a BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, MT and an MFA in Sculpture from University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
Red Star’s work is represented in over 50 museum collections including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC and the British Museum, London, UK, among others.
She has exhibited in the United States and internationally at venues including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Hood Art Museum, Hanover, NH; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN and Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL, among others.
In 2026, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC will mount a solo exhibition. In 2019, Red Star had her first career survey exhibition, Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth at the Newark Museum, Newark, NJ (February 23 – June 15, 2019) traveling to San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX (February 11 – May 08, 2022); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (April 21 – September 3, 2023).
Recent exhibitions include What It Becomes, Whitney Museum, New York, NY (Aug 24, 2024 – Jan 12, 2025); Indigenous Futures, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA (September 7, 2024 – June 21, 2026); 19th Century Photography Now, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (April 9 – July 7, 2024); The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art By Native Americans, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (September 22, 2023 – January 15, 2024) traveling to New Britain Museum Of American Art, New Britain, CT (April 19 – September 15, 2024); New Acquisitions: Paul Bril to Wendy Red Star, The British Museum, London, UK (March 30 – September 10, 2023); This is Not America’s Flag, The Broad, Los Angeles, CA (May 21 – September 25, 2022).
In 2017, Red Star was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in 2018. She is the winner of the 2024 Bonnie Bronson Fellowship and the 2024 Infinity Award in Contemporary Photography and New Media.