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 Transformer at the Plains Art Museum, Mechanistic Renderings at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Sante Fe, and Wind-Talker at Bockley Gallery. His work has been included in group exhibitions at numerous venues including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC; the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; and October Gallery in London; among others. Notable public collections include the British Museum, the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, the Tweed Museum of Art, the Plains Art Museum, and the Weisman Art Museum.

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.

Teewinot, 2021
acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Collection of
Anoka Ramsey Community College
Teewinot, 2021
acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 inches
Collection of Anoka Ramsey Community College
Butterfly Man, 2016
acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 inches
private collection
Butterfly Man, 2016
acrylic on canvas
48 x 36 inches
private collection
Aboriginal Sky God, 2021
color pencil on black paper
30 x 22.5 inches
Microsoft Art Collection
Machinehead, 2020
acrylic on canvas
60 x 96 x 2.25 inches 
Outer Space Brain (Cevello Spazio Cosmieo #2), 2015
color pencil on paper
30 x 22.25 inches
private collection 
Rise and Fall of the Industrial Age, 2011
color pencil on paper
30 x 22.25 inches
private collection
Wandering Spirit #3, 2007
color pencil on paper
22.25 x 15 inches
Reiminiscence, 2009
color pencil on paper
22.25 x 15 inches 
Ojibwe Service, 2008
color pencil on paper
22.25 x 30 inches 
Geocentric Figure, 2007
color pencil on paper
22.25 x 30 inches