Paintings and Other Artwork by Kevin Red Star

Kevin Red Star Biography

Kevin Red Star, born in 1943 on the Crow Reservation in Lodge Grass Montana, showed his unique artistic talents at an early age. He attended the prestigious Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, NM, and is the first artist trained there to be asked back as Artist-in-Residence. He is now on the Alumni Board of Directors. He also studied, on scholarship, at the San Francisco Art Institute.

The artists works (oils,watercolors,etchings,woodblock prints and serigraphs) are related to and inspired by his culture and his subject matter is almost exclusively Crow; he is an interpreter of his culture to the world at large. Many of his subjects focus on the era of history at the turn of the century when the culture was in a state if dramatic transition.

Since 1975 when his first one-man show sold out in two hours, his reputation has continued to expand. In 1977, he was one of 21 American artists exhibited in Japan and has been featured as the major artist in a group at the Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris, France. His work has been exhibited in Peking, China and in 1983 his work was shown at a major exposition in Berlin which earned him an interview on West German TV. One of the most distinctive honor was, the selection of his painting"The Flag Carrier" by President Reagan for a poster for the Night of the First Americans in 1982 at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.

In 2007 Kevin Red Star continues to have worldwide recognition traveling to Russia and being honored by Nickolai Ponomarev, President of the Russian Academy of Art in Moscow.

To date Red Star is featured in numerous Museums,in addition to private and permanent collections~ The San Diego Museum of Man, the Denver Museum, the Cody Museum, the Museum of the American Indian, the Smithsonian Institute, the Heard Museum, the Museum of the Plains Indian, the Wheelwright Museum, and the Millicent Rogers Museum.

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