Multimedia artist Wendy Red Star is best known for her photographic practice, which interrogates the relation between settler colonialism and Indigenous worldviews and histories. Red Star, an enrolled member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) Nation, employs appropriation, humor, and Crow traditions to expand the understanding of Indigenous art and critically revisit 19th-century depictions of Great Plains peoples. The artist has received numerous recognitions including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award in 2017, a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in 2018, and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2024. Red Star earned a BFA from Montana State University, Bozeman, and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. The first retrospective of her work, Wendy Red Star: A Scratch on the Earth, took place at the Newark Museum of Art in 2019.