The recordings of the 2026 Annual Artist Interviews from the College Art Association 113th Annual Conference are now live and available to watch. Hosted by the CAA Services to Artists Committee, the event featured artists Wendy Red Star and Martha Rosler in two engaging conversations. I had the pleasure of introducing the speakers, and the discussions that followed were thoughtful exchanges that are well worth revisiting.
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 The Broad, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, 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 the 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 Fellowship recipient, Red Star’s artist’s books include Delegation(2022) and Bíilukaa (2023). She holds an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles and has lectured internationally, including at Yale University and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
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 CAA 113th Annual Artist Interviews took place on Friday, February 14, from 4:30–7:00 p.m. ET at the New York Hilton Midtown and were also livestreamed on YouTube. The recordings are now available to watch.