Artist Talk with Wendy Red Star

Join Aperture and Birchbark Books online for an evening in celebration of Delegation (Aperture, 2022), the first comprehensive monograph by Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star, whose photography recasts historical narratives with wit, candor, and a feminist, Indigenous perspective. Whether referencing nineteenth-century Crow leaders or 1980s pulp fiction, museum collections or family pictures, Red Star’s practice questions the role of the photographer in shaping Indigenous representation.

Including a dynamic array of Red Star’s lens-based works from 2006 to the present and a range of essays, stories, and poems by award-winning historians and writers,  Delegation—a copublication with Documentary Arts—is a spirited testament to an influential artist’s singular vision. It builds upon the success of Aperture magazine’s Fall 2020 issue, “Native America,” and the traveling exhibition Native America: In Translation, curated by Red Star. 

This event will take place over Zoom, and registration is required prior to the event. Register here.

Wendy Red Star (born in Billings, Montana, 1981) is an Apsáalooke artist based in Portland, Oregon. Her work has been included in numerous solo and group exhibitions and is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum; Saint Louis Art Museum; MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts; and the British Museum, London. Red Star was the guest editor of Aperture  magazine’s Fall 2020 issue, “Native America,” and is the recipient of a 2022 Emerson Collective Fellowship.

This event is presented in partnership with Birchbark Books.

Image caption: Wendy Red Star, Spring, from the series Four Seasons, 2006; from Wendy Red Star: Delegation (Aperture, 2022). © Wendy Red Star