Tanya Lukin Linklater
Tanya Lukin Linklater’s (b. 1976, originates from the Native Villages of Afognak and Port Lions, southern Alaska; lives/works: North Bay, Ontario) work centres knowledge production in and through orality, conversation, and embodied practices. While reckoning with histories that affect Indigenous peoples’ lives, lands and ideas, she investigates insistence in both concept and application. Her practice encompasses dance, performance, video, photography, installation, and writing. She often produces performances with dancers, composers, musicians and poets, in relation to the architecture of museums, objects in exhibition, scores, and cultural belongings.
Lukin Linklater’s notable solo and two-person exhibitions include Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge (2023); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2022); Oakville Galleries, Canada (2022); Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver (2022); Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019); Remai Modern, Saskatoon (2017); and Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (2016). Her group exhibitions include the 14th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2023); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2022); Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan (2022); Toronto Biennial of Art (2022); New Museum Triennial, New York (2021); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2020); Heard Museum, Phoenix (2020); Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond (2020); Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville (2018); Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2017); Winnipeg Art Gallery (2017); and La Biennale de Montréal (2016).
Lukin Linklater is a doctoral candidate at Queen’s University, she holds a Master’s of Education from the University of Alberta (2003), and a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University (1998). She is the 2021 recipient of The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, Visual Arts and in 2019 she received the Art Writing Award from the Ontario Association of Art Galleries. Slow Scrape, her first book of poetry, was published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism (2020) with a second edition published by Talonbooks (2022).