The CAA Services to Artists Committee is thrilled to share that artists Wendy Red Star and Martha Rosler will be the featured guests of the CAA 113th Annual Conference Annual Artist Interviews! Red Star will be interviewed by Josh T Franco, head of collecting, Archives of American Art, and Charlotte Ickes, curator of time-based media art and special projects, National Portrait Gallery. Columbia University professor of art history and archaeology Julia Bryan-Wilson will speak with Rosler.
Wendy Red Star
Wendy Red Star is an Apsáalooke artist based in Portland, OR, whose multidisciplinary practice explores intersections of Apsáalooke history and colonial narratives through conceptual art and pop culture. Raised in Apsáalooke traditions, she uses her work to reframe historical narratives and amplify Apsáalooke perspectives.
Red Star’s work has been exhibited at major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Broad, Fondation Cartier, and the Seattle Art Museum. Her monumental sculpture, The Soil You See . . ., debuted on the National Mall in Washington, DC, in 2023, and was later acquired by Tippet Rise Art Center.
Her work is in over eighty public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the British Museum. A 2024 MacArthur Fellow, Red Star’s artist’s books include Delegation(2022) and Bíilukaa (2023). She holds an MFA from UCLA and has lectured internationally, including at Yale University and the Banff Centre.
Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler’s work centers on the public sphere and everyday life, particularly with respect to women. Recurring themes include food in its many roles and guises, urbanism and spaces of transit, and war and national security. She has initiated a number of events in the US and Europe that bridge diverse publics, including garage sales, pop-up libraries, and a long-standing collaborative project that explores homelessness, housing, and the built environment. Through her varied artistic practice, writing, and activism, she challenges the mechanisms of power and their normalization within imagery, narrative, and discourse.
She has received numerous honors, including the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, the College Art Association Distinguished Feminist Award, the Women’s Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award, the Oskar Kokoschka Prize, the Spectrum International Prize in Photography, the Guggenheim Museum Lifetime Achievement Award, the Asher B. Durand Award, the Lichtwark Prize, and four doctorates Honoris Causa.
Rosler lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, whose decades of gentrification have often figured in her work.
The CAA113 Annual Artist Interviews will be held on Friday, February 14, 4:30–7:00 p.m. ET at the New York Hilton Midtown. This event will also be livestreamed via YouTube.