Baahinnaachísh
Baaeétitchish
Baahinnaachísh or Baaeétitchish (One Who Is Talented), references the Apsáalooke name Wendy Red Star received while visiting home. It is the original name of her grand-uncle, Clive Francis Dust, Sr., known in the family for his creativity as a cultural keeper.
Wendy Red Star (b.1981, Billings, MT) lives and works in Portland, OR. Red Star has exhibited in the United States and abroad at venues including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY), both of which have her works in their permanent collections; 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), the Frost Art Museum (Miami, FL), among others.
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY), the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, TX), the Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO), the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College (Clinton, NY), the Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD), the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham, NC), the Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL), the Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA), the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY), and the British Museum (London, UK), among others.
She served a visiting lecturer at institutions including Yale University (New Haven, CT), the Figge Art Museum (Davenport, IA), the Banff Centre (Banff, Canada), National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia), Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), CalArts (Valencia, CA), Flagler College (St. Augustine, FL), and I.D.E.A. Space in Colorado Springs (Colorado Springs, CO). In 2017, Red Star was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and in 2018 she received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. Her first career survey exhibition “Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth” was on view at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey through May 2019, concurrently with her first New York solo gallery exhibition at Sargent's Daughters.
Red Star is currently exhibiting at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL), The Broad (Los Angeles, CA), Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (Santa Cruz, NM), The Drawing Center (New York, NY), The Rockwell Museum (Corning, NY), amongst others. Her new solo exhibition American Progress is on view at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University (Stanford, CA) through August 2022.
Red Star holds a BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and an MFA in sculpture from University of California, Los Angeles. She is represented by Sargent's Daughters.
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1981 Born in Billings, MT
Lives and works in Portland, OR
EDUCATION
2006 MFA Sculpture, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2004 BFA Sculpture, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
American Progress, The Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2021
A Float for the Future, Sargent’s Daughters at The Armory Show, Javits Center, New York, NY
Brings Good Horses, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
Wendy Red Star, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
2020
Wendy Red Star: Apsáalooke: Children of the Large-Beaked Bird, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
2019
Accession, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
2018
The Maniacs (We’re Not The Best, But We’re Better Than The Rest), University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
2017
Our Side, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
Um-basax-bilua, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY
Reservation Pop, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN
2016
We Are The People, Weber State University, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Ogden, UT
Strength Unity Power, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2015
Tableaux Vivant: Nature’s Playground, Seattle Art Fair – Volunteer Park, Seattle, WA
2014
Peelatchiwaaxpáash/Medicine Crow (Raven) & the 1880 Crow Peace Delegation, Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
Peelatchiwaaxpáash/Medicine Crow (Raven) & the 1880 Crow Peace Delegation, APEX Gallery, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Circling The Camp, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
Wendy Red Star, C.N. Gorman Museum, Davis, CA
Wendy Red Star’s Wild West And Congress Of Rough Rider’s Of The World, Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA
2011
My Home Is Where My Tipi Sits (Crow Country), Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Positive Fragmentation: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C
Based on a True Story…, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Strange Weather, Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz, NM
2021
In Some Form or Fashion, The Momentary, Bentonville, AK
Picturing Motherhood Now, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Stories of Resistance, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Horses?, CHART Gallery, New York, NY
2020
True Likeness, Van Every Gallery at Davidson College, Davidson, NC
House to House: Women, Politics, and Place, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2019
Half the Picture, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Perilous Bodies, Ford Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
Reflections: Native Artists Across Generations, Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2018
Give a damn, Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2017
Unsettled, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, FL
The Western: An Epic In Art & Film, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec
Dress Matters: Clothing as Metaphor, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Hear My Voice: Native American Art of the Past and Present, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, VA; Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
Monarchs, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
2016
The Art of American Dance: 1830-1960, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Contemporary Native Photographers and the Edward Curtis Legacy: Zig Jackson, Wendy Red Star, Will Wilson, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Native Fashion Now, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, New York, NY
2015
The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
Enter the Matrix: Indigenous Printmakers, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, OK
About Face: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Art, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
2014
Contemporary Native Photography, Novosibirsk Festival of Photography and Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Contemporary American Indian Art, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2013
Space is the Place, Disjecta, Portland, OR
2012
Portland 2012: A Biennial of Contemporary Art, Disjecta, Portland, OR
DoubleSpeak, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake, UT 2010
Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts Biennial, Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, OR
2009
Eiteljorg Fellowship of Native American Art, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
2006
Abstract Things, Laura Barlett Gallery, London, England
Where I Lived..., Domaine De Kerguéhennec, Brittany, France
2005
J’en Reve, Fondation Cartier L’ Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Full CV available upon request
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Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX
Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, CA
Bethel University Galleries, St. Paul, MN
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
British Museum, London, UK
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
C.N. Gorman Museum, Davis, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN
Forge Project, Taghankic, New York
Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles, CA
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
National Museum of The American Indian George Gustav Heye Center, New York, NY
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
New Mexico State University – University Art Museum, Las Cruces, NM
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, NY
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
The Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA