Kevin Red Star was born on the Crow Indian Reservation in lodge Grass, Montana.  In a family that valued art, music and culture, he developed an early love of drawing and music.  Red Star was one of the 160 students chosen to attend the newly established Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he was encouraged to explore modern art techniques.  Upon graduating he received a scholarship to the San Francisco Art institute.

For thirty years, Red Star has been painting his native Crow culture.  His paintings have gained international recognition as his work has evolved and has become more symbolic and universal.  In 1997, he received an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Fine Art for the Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana. 

Red Star’s work is held in many collections including the National Museum of the American Indian of the Smithsonian Institution, the Whitney Museum of Western Art in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, the Heard Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the C.M. Russell Museum, the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, and the United States Department of State.  In the past five years he has been completed his residencies at the Russian Academy of Art in Moscow and at the Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia.

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