The Untamed Beauty in LA River

Artist: Montana, Star

Date: 2022

Medium: Ink on paper

Artwork Dimensions: 32 x 40 in.

Current Status: In storage

About the Artist: Star Montana (b. 1987, Los Angeles, CA) is a photo-based artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She holds an MFA in Art from the University of Southern California, a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and an Associate of Arts in Photography from East Los Angeles College. She was born and raised in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, which is predominantly Mexican American and serves as the backdrop to much of her work. Montana has had solo shows at The Main Museum (2017) and Vincent Price Art Museum (2016). Her work has recently been exhibited throughout Los Angeles at Night Gallery (2021); Charlie James Gallery (2022, 2019, 2016); Residency Art Gallery (2018); LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes Museum (2018); Occidental College (2017); The Mexican Center for Culture and Cinematic Arts at the Mexican Consulate General of Mexico (2017); and Ballroom Marfa, Texas (2017). Montana was an artist-in-residence at Self-Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York in 2021. Her work is in the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, TX, and LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art).