Star Montana
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Star Montana (born 1987)[1] is a Los Angeles-based photographer. Her work has been shown in museums and galleries such as the Vincent Price Art Museum, The Main Museum, ArtCenter, internationally in Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico, and in the L.A. Metro Vermont/Beverly station from 2014 to 2016.[2] She has also been featured in articles in Aperture[3] and Hyperallergic.[4]
Montana grew up in the predominantly Mexican American Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles.[1] She describes her teenage self as a "street kid" who found photography when one of her friends showed Montana some photographs she took for a class at East Los Angeles College, and Montana realized she could pursue photography as an art form.[5]
