Star WallowingBull

The vividly intricate colored-pencil drawings and acrylic paintings of Star WallowingBull (Ojibwe/Arapaho) explore intersections of Indigeneity and United States pop culture, conceptually and oftentimes playfully exposing fundamental mechanisms of control.

WallowingBull’s solo exhibitions include Mapping and (Meta)Morphing, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (2025); Machine Head, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (2021); Transformer, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND (2015–16); and Mechanistic Renderings, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Sante Fe, NM (2015). His work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation, Detroit Institute of the Arts, MI (2025–26); Indigenous Identities: Here, Now & Always, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ (2025); and The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2023–24).

WallowingBull’s work resides in notable public collections such as the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the British Museum, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Tweed Museum of Art, and the Weisman Art Museum. He is a recipient of the Jim Denomie Memorial Scholarship, as well as awards from the Jerome Foundation, the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, and the Bush Foundation.

WallowingBull is an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of Chippewa. He was raised in the Twin Cities and is now based in Fargo, North Dakota.