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. An enrolled member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Tribe, Red Star works across disciplines to explore the intersections of Native American ideologies and colonialist structures, both historically and in contemporary society. Drawing on pop culture, conceptual art strategies, and the Crow traditions within which she was raised, Red Star pushes the conversation surrounding Native American perspectives in new directions.

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); The Broad (Los Angeles, CA); the Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA); Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain (Paris, France); Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA); Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR); the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL); St. Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO); the Contemporary Austin (Austin, TX); Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA) (North Adams, MA); the Drawing Center (New York, NY); and the Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH), among others. Her monumental sculpture, The Soil You See…, was included in Beyond Granite: Pulling Together, the first curated outdoor exhibition in the history of the National Mall (Washington, D.C), organized by Monument Lab in 2023. The work was then acquired by Tippet Rise Art Center (Fishtail, MT). Red Star’s work was included in Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest exhibition at South London Gallery, in partnership with the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK).

Her work is in over 60 public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY); the Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY); the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art (Los Angeles, CA); the Amon Carter Museum of American Art (Fort Worth, TX); the Denver Art Museum (Denver, CO); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AK); 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); San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, TX); and the British Museum (London, UK), among others.

Red Star holds a BFA and an honorary Doctorate from Montana State University, Bozeman, and an MFA in sculpture from University of California, Los Angeles. She has served as visiting lecturer at institutions including Yale University (New Haven, CT), the Banff Centre (Banff, Canada), National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia), Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), and CalArts (Valencia, CA). In 2017, Red Star was awarded the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, and in 2018 she received a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. In 2022, Red Star was an Anonymous Was A Woman Grant recipient. Red Star was named a 2024 MacArthur Fellow.

Her first career survey exhibition, Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth, was on view at the Newark Museum (Newark, NJ) through May 2019, and traveled to the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, TX) in 2022 and the Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, OH) in 2023. Red Star’s monograph Delegation was co-published by the Aperture Foundation and Documentary Arts in May 2022 and was named one of Vanity Fair’s best art books of 2022. Red Star’s artist book Wendy Red Star: Bíilukaa, which documents the symbolism and material culture of the Biílukaa (Apsáalooke), was published by Radius Books in April 2023. She is represented by Sargent's Daughters in New York City, NY and Roberts Projects in Los Angeles, CA.

 

  • 1981 Born in Billings, MT

    Lives and works in Portland, OR

    EDUCATION

    2006 MFA Painting, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

    2004 BFA Sculpture, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

    SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

    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

    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

  • 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

    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

    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

    Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN

    Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA