Tanya Lukin Linklater – CV
Tanya Lukin Linklater
b. 1976, Kodiak, Alaska, USA
Lives and works in North Bay, Ontario, Canada
Education
- 2015–2023 PhD, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
- 2003 MEd, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- 1998 BA Honours, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions and Performances
- 2024 inner blades of grass (soft) / inner blades of grass (cured) / inner blades of grass (bruised by weather), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA
- 2023 Ewako ôma askiy. This then is the earth., Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA
The sky held me (rainfall on hands hair lips), Toronto Biennial of Art, High Park, Toronto, Canada
Hair Prints, Open Space, Victoria, Canada
My mind is with the weather, with Tiffany Shaw, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada - 2022 breath ,’ echo, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
My mind is with the weather, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
The best stories I know come from late night car rides or kitchen tables., with Brenda Draney, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver - 2020 This moment an endurance to the end forever, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada
- 2018 Slay All Day, ma ma gallery, Toronto, Canada
- 2017 Tanya Lukin Linklater: The Harvest Sturdies and A Girl, Vitrine Project, Union Gallery, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Tanya Lukin Linklater: Sun Force, open rehearsals and performance, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
How we mark land and how land marks us, LandMarks2017, Thousand Islands National Park, and Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
The Harvest Sturdies, All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis, USA
A Few Similar Things: Tanya Lukin Linklater and Celia Perrin Sidarous, Truck Gallery, Calgary, Canada
- 2016 the the, performance for Turn Out, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
A Parallel Excavation, with Duane Linklater, curated by Ociciwan Collective, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Neither Nor, State of Flux Project Room, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, Canada
- 2013 unspoken-ness, W.K.P. Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Canada
- 2012 unspoken-ness, Alaska Native Arts Foundation Gallery, Anchorage, USA
Selected Collaborative Exhibitions and Performances
- 2019 ...and other such stories, in collaboration with Tiffany Shaw-Collinge, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, USA
- 2017 Determined by the river, in collaboration with Duane Linklater, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
Beshaabiiganan (Lines), in collaboration with Darlene Naponse and Deanna Nebenionquit, Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Sudbury, Canada
- 2016 Constellation/conversation, in collaboration with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Artspace, Peterborough, Canada
- 2014 People of Good Will Project, in collaboration with Duane Linklater, organized by Postcommodity, Musagetes Foundation and Guelph Black Heritage Society, Guelph, Canada
- 2013 grain(s), in collaboration with Duane Linklater, Images Festival and Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
- 2012 Up River, in collaboration with Duane Linklater, Mann Art Gallery, Prince Albert, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions, Screenings and Performances
- 2024 Labour, Art Museum, Toronto, Canada
Ilagiit/Relatives, FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Other Arrangements: Poetics of the Performance Score, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada - 2023 Indian Theater, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
Affinities: a series of performances, screenings, and conversations, Foundation Phi, Montreal, Canada
Tending Otherworlds: New Acquistions, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
Reimagining Interconnectedness, Pleasure Dome, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Toronto, Canada
Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada
Distance Studies, Images Festival, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre, Toronto, Canada
Soft and weak like water, The 14th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea - 2022 Arctic/Amazon: Networks of Global Indigeneity, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Movement: Expressive Bodies in Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Still Alive, Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan
What Water Knows, The Land Remembers, Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto, Canada
To meet the curve of movement with the rhythm of legibility, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon, Canada
Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, USA; The Rooms, St. John’s, Canada - 2021 2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum, New York, USA
Counter Cartographies: Living the Land, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, USA
Generous Acts, Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre, Edmonton, Canada
You Sit in a Garden, Critical Distance, Toronto, Canada
Two Truths and a Lie, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada; Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada
The Language in Common, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA
Larger Than Memory: A Digital Experience, Heard Museum (online), Phoenix, USA
You Sit in a Garden, Centre Clark, Montreal, Canada - 2020 Historias da Danca [Histories of Dance], Museu de Arte de São Paolo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Larger Than Memory: Contemporary Art from Indigenous North America, Heard Museum, Phoenix, USA
Commonwealth, Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA; Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Canada; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
Our Bodies, Our Archives: BMW Tate Live Exhibition, exhibition and performance, Tate Modern, London, England (cancelled due to COVID-19)
Next Year’s Country, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
Inaabiwin, Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Canada
- 2019 Northern Convergences, McLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada
Soft Power, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Contemporary Indigenous Arts & Languages, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
...and other such stories, performance, Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, USA
Inaabiwin, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada; Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Across the table, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, Canada
Are You My Mother?, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
Ka’tarohkwi Festival of Indigenous Arts, Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts, Kingston, Canada
Unexplained Parade, Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
Public Syntax, Critical Distance, Toronto, Canada
Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, Kingston, Canada; The Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, USA
- 2018 Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, exhibition and performance, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, USA
Inaabiwin, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada
Thirteen Ways to Summon Ghosts, Gordon Smith Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada
Thunderstruck: Physical Landscapes, Âjagemô Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
níchiwamiskwém | nimidet | my sister | ma soeur, La Biennale d'art contemporain autochtone (BACA), Montreal, Canada
There’s something in the way, Cold Cuts Video Festival, Dawson City, Canada
niigaanikwewag, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
In Dialogue, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Canada; Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
In this place where the guest rests, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, USA
- 2017 Kahatenhstánion tsi na’tetiatere ne Iotohrkó:wa tánon Iotohrha / Drawing Lines from January to December, Wood Land School (SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art), Montreal, Canada
The treaty is in the body, performance, Calculating Upon the Unforeseen, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Our Side: Elisa Harkins, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Marianne Nicolson, and Tanis S'eiltin, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, USA
In Dialogue, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Wood Land School: A gesture for documenta 14, for Under the Mango Tree—Sites of Learning, organized by aneducation, documenta 14 and Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany
Traces, Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, Canada
Resistance After Nature, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, USA
- 2016 In each hand I keep each of my eyes, Hampshire College Art Gallery, Amherst, USA
Reeling: Dance On Screen, presented by Mile Zero Dance Society, Edmonton, Canada
Le Grand Balcon, La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
If we never met.., Pātaka Art+Museum, Porirua, New Zealand, co-organized with Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, Canada
iNuit Blanche, St. John's, Canada
10/10, Indigenous Peoples Artist Collective, Mann Gallery, Prince Albert, Canada
Reflections, screening, Indigenous Peoples Artist Collective, Prince Albert, Canada
Interprétations à l'oeuvre, Astérides, Marseille, France, and Darling Foundry, Montreal, Canada
Down To Write You This Poem Sat, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
Affinities: a series of performances, screenings and conversations, for Joan Jonas: From Away, Fondation Phi pour l'art contemporain and DHC/Art, Montreal, Canada
Wood Land School: Critical Anthology, A symposium on directions in Indigenous contemporary art, Or Gallery, co-presented by Or Gallery and SFU Galleries, Vancouver
An accumulation - A relief, performance, for Cutting Copper, Indigenous Resurgent Practice, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
We Are The People, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery at Weber State University, Ogden, USA
- 2015 Accompaniment, with Laura Ortman, EFA Project Space and Performa, New York, USA
Indigenous Choreographers at Riverside, Barbara & Art Culver Centre for the Arts, Riverside, USA
North of the 45th, performance, Gallery 101 and Ontario Scene, Ottawa, Canada
An Annotated Bibliography in Real Time, ARTEXTE, Montreal, Canada
Reading the Line, Western Front, Vancouver
Canadiana, the 8 fest: Small-Gauge Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
Talkin’ back to Johnny Mac, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
- 2014 Wawasayg Film Festival, North Bay, Canada
7e Biennale d'art performatif de Rouyn-Noranda, L'Écart, Rouyn-Noranda, Canada
Nuit Blanche Winnipeg, Winnipeg, Canada
Memory Keepers: Methodologies of Memory, Mapping, and Gender, Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, Canada
New Maternalisms Chile, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo and Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile
Indigenesse, Aurora Cultural Centre, Aurora, Canada
A Problem So Big It Needs Other People, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
Concrete Scores, Open Space, Victoria, Canada
- 2013 Canadá: Aproximaciones al paisaje (in)habitado [Canada: On the (non)inhabited landscape], FASE - Encuentro de arte y tecnología 5, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Reel Northern II, Near North Mobile Media Lab and White Water Gallery, North Bay, Canada
Stands with a Fist: Contemporary Native Women Artists, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, USA
You Are Here, Visualizing Place at the Gateway to the North, North Bay, Canada
- 2012 Sweetgrass Film Festival, Kenora, Canada
A Travelling Exhibition, Open Space, Victoria, Canada
VI Mostra Internacional de Videodança São Carlos, Sao Carlos, Brazil
Blizzard: Emerging Northern Artists, grunt gallery, Vancouver
Weengushk International Film Festival, Sudbury, Canada
This is My Song: Perspectives from Contemporary Native Women, The Art Space, Huntsville, Canada
Indigenous Choreographers Residency, Barbara & Art Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, USA
- 2011 aiya! 4, WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Canada
Urbanisms II: Uber Gurlz, Mann Art Gallery, Prince Albert, Canada
Give me an A!, White Water Gallery, North Bay, Canada
Performing Memory, Open Sky Creative Society, Fort Simpson, Canada
Acting Out, Claiming Space: Aboriginal Performance Art Series, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston, Canada
- 2010 aiya! 3, TRIBE INC., Saskatoon, Canada
aiya!, Native Women in the Arts' Catalyst Café, Toronto, Canada
Mapping Resistances, Ode'min-Giizis Festival, 20th anniversary of Oka resistance, Peterborough, Canada
foire d’art alternatif de sudbury: hors lieux, La Galerie du Nouvel–Ontario, Sudbury, Canada
Ice Follies Biennial, North Bay waterfront, organized by WKP Kennedy Gallery, North Bay, Canada
6th Annual Aboriginal Choreographers Workshop, Earth In Motion World Indigenous Dance, Toronto, Canada
Iskwewak: Festival of Performance Art, Sâkêwêwak, Regina, Canada
- 2009 Art Nomade: Indetermination, Le Lobe, Chicoutimi, Canada
Streets of Home, LIVE Biennale, Vancouver
- 2008 Actions of Transfer: Women and Performance in the Americas, University of California, Los Angeles/Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Los Angeles, USA
Justice, Visualeyez Festival of Performance Art, Latitude 53: Visual Culture, Edmonton, Canada
Expanse Movement Arts Festival, Edmonton, Canada
35th Annual Skookum Jim Folklore Show, Whitehorse, Canada
Books and Exhibition Catalogues
- 2024 Beth Weinstein, ‘Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time’, Routledge, London, UK
Maria Hupfield, ed., Breaking Protocol, Inventory Press, Los Angeles; Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York, USA - 2023 Jeffrey Gibson, ed., An Indigenous Present, DelMonico Books, Big NDN Press, New York, USA
Iida Shihoko, et al., Aichi Triennale 2022: STILL ALIVE, Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee; Kokushokankokai Inc., Japan - 2022 Candice Hopkins, Katie Lawson, and Tairone Bastien, eds., Water, Kinship, Belief, Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto, Canada; Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
- 2021 Jamillah James and Margot Norton, eds., Soft Water Hard Stone: 2021 New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York, USA
Noah Simblist and Stephanie Smith, ‘Tanya Lukin Linklater and Tiffany Shaw-Collinge’, Commonwealth, Issue 3, ICU VCU, Richmond, USA - 2020 Eugine Joo, ed., Soft Power: A Conversation for the Future, SFMOMA, San Francisco; Rizzolia Electa, New York, USA
Adriano Pedrosa, Julia Bryan-Wilson, and Olivia Ardui, eds., Histórias da Dança, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Tobi Lopez Taylor and Deborah Paddison, eds., Larger Than Memory: Contemporary Art from Indigenous North America, Heard Museum, Phoenix, USA
Emily McKibbon, Northern Convergences, online, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada
Catherine Wood and Tamsin Hong, Our Bodies, Our Archives: BMW Tate Live Exhibition, online, Tate Modern, London, England - 2019 Emily McKibbon, et al., Northern Convergences, online, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada
Eungie Joo, ed., Soft Power: A Conversation for the Future, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - 2018 Danielle Printup and Billy-Ray Belcourt, Inaabiwin, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada
Mindy N. Besaw, Candice Hopkins, and Manuela Well-Off-Man, Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, USA
Kimberly Phillips, 13 Ways to Summon Ghosts, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, North Vancouver, Canada
Niki Little and Becca Taylor, níchiwamiskwém | nimidet | ma sœur | my sister, online, La Biennale d'art contemporain autochtone, Montreal, Canada
John G. Hampton, In Dialogue, online, Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Jacqueline Mabey, In this place where the guest rests, online, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, USA
Slay All Day, ma ma gallery, Toronto, Canada - 2017 Jaimie Isaac and Julie Nagam, eds., Insurgence, Resurgence, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Gregory Burke and Sandra Guimarães, eds., Field Guide, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
Wendy Red Star, Our Side: Elisa Harkins, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Marianne Nicolson, and Tanis Maria S'Eiltin, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, USA
taisha paggett, Magdalyn Asimakis, Park McArthur, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Jared Quinton, and Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe, That I Am Reading Backwards and Into For a Purpose to Go On, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Kendra Sullivan and Dylan Gauthier, Resistance After Nature, online, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford, USA
- 2016 Erin Sutherland, Tiffany Shaw-Collinge, Tanya Lukin Linklater, and Duane Linklater, A Parallel Excavation: Duane Linklater & Tanya Lukin Linklater, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- 2015 Pablo de Ocampo, Reading the Line: Alma Alloro, Maggie Groat, Anne Low, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Lis Rhodes, Western Front, Vancouver
- 2012 Tania Willard and Candice Hopkins, Blizzard: Emerging Northern Artists, grunt gallery, Vancouver
Magazines and Periodicals
- 2024 ‘Kendra Sullivan and Tanya Lukin Linklater’, BOMB, 15 November
Robb Jamieson, ‘Fall Artists Spotlight’, Elle Canada, Fall
Erin Joyce, ‘Tanya Lukin Linklater Opens Up a Space of Contemplation’, Hyperallergic, 4 September
Nancy Gilson, ‘Human impact on the world displayed through art at Wexner’, The Columbus Dispatch, 6 July
Shihoko Iida, ‘Tanya Lukin Linklater’, Bijutsu-Techo, vol. 76, no. 1102, July
Chadd Scott, ‘Tanya Lukin Linklater Reveals And Withholds In Exhibition At Wexner Center For The Arts In Columbus, Ohio’, Forbes, 25 June
Tenille K. Campbell, ‘Tanya Lukin Linklater: Slay All Day’, Inuit Art Quarterly vol. 371, Spring 2024
Alex Greenberger, ’44 Museum Shows to See This Summer’, Art News, 31 May
Belinda M. Paschal, ‘Wexner Center to present summer art exhibitions by residency award recipients’, The Columbus Dispatch, 16 May
Shannon Webb-Campbell, ‘Breaking Protocol: Maria Hupfield’, C Magazine,15 April
Talia Dixon, ‘Embodied Excavations: Tanya Lukin Linklater at BAMPFA’, Arts Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 29 February - 2023 Alex Greenberger, ‘Indigenous Art History Gets a Rewrite, With an Emphasis on Performance, in a Standout Show Upstate’, Artnews, 5 September
Joelle E. Mendoza, ‘An Indigenous MFA Program Moves Beyond “Mastery”’, Hyperallergic, 19 June
Maude Johnson, ‘Tanya Lukin Linklater’, esse, Issue 108 - 2022 Malini Guha, ‘On, For, With Structure: Tanya Lukin Linklater’s My Mind is With the Weather’, Mediapolis, no. 4, Screening Canada, vol. 7, 16 November
Laurie White, ‘"The best stories I know come from late night car rides or kitchen tables." - Brenda Draney and Tanya Lukin Linklater’, C Magazine, Issue 152, Autumn
Adam Laskaris, 'Biennial is back in Toronto and includes work by Indigenous artists', Wind Speaker, 29 March
Maximilíano Durón, ‘12 Standouts at the 2022 Toronto Biennial: From Breathtaking Textile-Based Installations to Poignant Reflections on Place’, ARTnews, 25 March
Marsha Lederman, As Toronto Biennial of Art finally opens, the need for art has never been stronger, The Globe and Mail, 25 March Sam Gaskin, ‘Toronto Biennial to Feature Brian Jungen, Jeffrey Gibson, and Judy Chicago’, Ocula, 22 March Ron Johnson, ‘There’s an epic 72-day contemporary art event coming to Toronto this month’, Streets of Toronto, 8 March Maddie Klett, ‘The Historical Invention of Gala Porras-Kim’, Momus, 7 March - 2021 Ewa Hess, ‘New-Museum-Trienniale in New York: Weiches Wasser, harter Stein’, Monopol Magazin, 12 December
David A Rodriguez, ‘Review: On "The Language in Common"’, Arts Paper, 30 November
Kerr Houston, ‘Grace Under Pressure: The 2021 New Museum Triennial’, BmoreArt, 22 November
Holland Cotter, ‘New Museum Triennial Explores the Hidden Strengths of Soft Power’, The New York Times, 4 November
Ben Davis, ‘In Pictures: See Highlights of the New Museum’s Very Subtle New Triennial, Filled With Raw, Barely-Finished-Looking Art’, Artnet News, 28 October
‘Preview: A First Look at ‘Soft Water Hard Stone,’ The Fifth New Museum Triennial’, Something Curated, 25 October
‘Ontario Culture Days brings month-long celebration of arts and culture to Toronto’, The Standard, 24 September
Siddhartha Mitter, ‘Seeking Art That Expands the Possibilities for a Troubled World’, The New York Times, 14 September
Robin Simpson, ‘Contending with the histories that we contend with: Tanya Lukin Linklater in conversation with Robin Simpson’, The Capilano Review 3.44, Summer
‘4 Circumpolar Indigenous Artists Longlisted for Sobey Art Award’, Inuit Art Quarterly, 05 May
Godfre Leung, ‘Land, Landlessness, Mobility’, Art Asia Pacific, Issue 122, March/May ‘2021 New Museum Triennial, titled ‘Soft Water Hard Stone’, to explore resilience and resistance’, ArtReview, 06 April
Alex Greenberger, ‘2021 New Museum Triennial Reveals Artist List, Putting Focus on Perseverance’, Artnews, 02 April ‘A Day of Ceremony for the Opening of Qaumajuq’, Arctic Arts Summit, 21 February
Godfre Leung, ‘Tense: On Tanya Lukin Linklater’s We Wear One Another’, ReIssue, 18 January
- 2020 Layli Long Soldier, ‘Introduction to Slow Scrape’, o bod, 1 December
Maureen Callahan, ‘Commonwealth at the ICA at VCU, Richmond’, Burnaway, 13 November
Dorian Batycka, ‘Performance Art Has Always Been About Intimacy. Can It Make It Through the Social-Distancing Era With Its Soul Intact?’, Artnet News, 11 November
Candice Hopkins, ‘Repatriation Otherwise’, Constellations, MUAC, October
Jacob Korczynski, ‘Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts’, Flash Art, 6 August
‘Tanya Lukin Linklater: Questionnaire’, Remai Modern, 28 May - 2019 Karen Rosenberg, ‘‘Soft Power’: When Political Art Walks a Very Fine Line’, The New York Times, December 18
Adam Kleinman, ‘Do Artists Have ‘Soft Power’ To Create Political Change?’, Frieze, November 28
Ted Loos, ‘In San Francisco, Wielding Influence (Gently) Through Art’, The New York Times, October 23
Megan MacLaurin, ‘A Conversation with Tanya Lukin Linklater’, Movement Research Performance Journal, Issue 52/53, October
Natalie Dewan, ‘Spotlight on: Tanya Lukin Linklater’, Ontario Presents online, June 25
Emmaly Wiederholt, ‘Conversations, Processes and Insistences: An Interview with Tanya Lukin Linklater’, Stance on Dance online, January 3
- 2018 Alison Cooley, ‘Field Guide: Determined by the river Remai Modern’, Inuit Art Quarterly, Volume 31, Issue 2, Summer, Skin
Brandon Gray, ‘Tanya Lukin Linklater's art explores what it means to be 'treaty people'’, CBC Arts online, March 26
‘Tanya Lukin Linklater Receives Inaugural Wanda Koop Research Fund’, Canadian Art online, March 20
‘#ArtistatCB: Tanya Lukin Linklater’, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art online
‘Inaabiwin’, Robert McLaughlin Gallery online
- 2017 Claire Voon, ‘Canada’s Newest Contemporary Art Museum Opens in Saskatoon’, Hyperallergic, November 13
John G. Hampton and Wood Land School, ‘Inside a Year-Long Experiment in Indigenous Institutional Critique’, Canadian Art online, May 2
John G. Hampton and Wood Land School, ‘Wood Land School Goes to Documenta: A Talk on Indigenous Institutional Critique, Part 2’, Canadian Art online, August 31
Tasha Hubbard, ‘the the: Tanya Lukin Linklater’, BlackFlash Magazine, Volume 33, Issue 3
Christina Schmid, ‘Tanya Lukin Linklater: The Harvest Sturdies’, In Review, 5 March
Billy-Ray Belcourt, ‘The body remembers when the world broke open’, ArtsEverywhere online, February 8
‘AGO Summer 2017 Artist-in-Residence - Tanya Lukin Linklater’, Art Gallery of Ontario online
- 2016 Nancy Webb, ‘Slay, Okay’, Luma, Fall
Kari Cwynar, ‘Tanya Lukin Linklater’s Choreography of Space’, Inuit Art Quarterly, Volume 29, Issue 2, Summer, Performance
Matthew Ryan Smith, ‘‘I Write For My Family’: A Conversation with Tanya Lukin Linklater’, First American Art Magazine, Spring
Erin Wunker, ‘An interview with Tanya Lukin Linklater’, Canadian Women in the Literary Arts online
- 2015 Julia Caron, ‘Tanya Lukin Linklater presents ‘the the’ in Rouyn-Noranda’, online
- 2013 Thomas Michael Swenson, ‘‘Memory is Embodied’: Tanya Lukin-Linklater Interview’, The Alaska Native Studies Blog online, September 27
- 2010 Susan Leigh Foster, ‘Watching Woman and Water’, Theatre Survey, Volume 51, Issue 1
Artists' Books and Special Projects
- 2022 Slow Scrape, second edition, edited by Michael Nardone, Talon Books, Vancouver
Sensation is a circuit of experience, a circuit of the felt traveling in and adjacent to the body, Ontario Culture Days, Toronto, Canada - 2020 Slow Scrape, edited by Michael Nardone, Documents, Centre for Expanded Poetics at Concordia University and Anteism, Montreal, Canada
‘A glossary of insistence’, in Routledge Companion of Indigenous Art Histories in Canada and the United States, edited by Heather Igloliorte and Carla Taunton, Routledge
- 2017 Wood Land School: A gesture for documenta 14, at Under the Mango Tree - Sites of Learning, organized by aneducation, Documenta 14 and Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany
Kahatenhstánion tsi na’tetiatere ne Iotohrkó:wa tánon Iotohrha / Drawing Lines from January to December, Wood Land School (SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art), Montreal, Canada
- 2016 Slay All Day, web commission, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
- 2010 Hands, for Offering/Offrandes, online
Published Writing and Works by the Artist
- 2024 ‘Sensation’, in Maria Hupfield, ed., Breaking Protocol, Inventory Press, Los Angeles; Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York, USA
- 2023 ‘Maureen Gruben’, Early Days: Indigenous Art from the McMichael, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg; Figure 1 Publishing, Vancouver, Canada
- 2022 ‘We wear one another, a performance by Tanya Lukin Linklater.’, Journal of Visual Culture, special issue: Reparations and Visual Culture, edited by Gabrielle Moser and Adrienne Huard, London, UK
‘A glossary of insistence’, Routledge Companion of Indigenous Art Histories in Canada and the United States, edited by Heather Igloliorte, and Carla Taunton, Routledge, Abingdon-on-Thames, UK
‘On felt structures’, Arctic/Amazon Networks of Global Indigeneity, edited by Gerald McMaster, and Nina Vincent, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
‘On Indigenous geometries’, Inuit Architecture, edited by Joar Nango, Taqralik Partridge, and Jocelyn Piiranen, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada - 2019 ‘Water’, video published alongside Marcie Rendon’s ‘Walking in the Shadows’, Stillpoint Magazine, Issue 2, Shadows
- 2018 ‘A series of event scores for Mary Anne Barkhouse’, for Mary Anne Barkhouse – Interlopers, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, ON, Canada
‘Nokhom’, ‘44’, and ‘A girl’, for Slay All Day, ma ma gallery, Toronto, Canada
‘Not Like Us’, excerpted in níchiwamiskwém | nimidet | my sister | ma soeur, La Biennale d'art contemporain autochtone (BACA), Montreal, Canada
‘Event Scores’, Thirteen Ways to Summon Ghosts, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art, North Vancouver, Canada
- 2017 ‘Selection of Event Scores’, in That I Am Reading Backwards and Into For a Purpose to Go On, edited by Magdalyn Asimakis, Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe and Jared Quinton, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
‘i fall into a place that is between body and song’, in ALMANAC, edited by Maggie Groat, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Canada
‘Desirous Kind of Indigenous Futurity’, in Desire/Change: Contemporary Canadian Feminist Art, edited by Heather Davis, McGill-Queen’s University Press, Montreal
- 2016 ‘An Event Score for Maria Tallchief, Dylan Robinson and Sherry Farrell Racette’, ‘An Event Score for Kodiak Alutiit 1 (Helen Simeonoff)’, and ‘An Event Score for Kodiak Alutiit 2 (To Ales Hrdlicka)’, in A Parallel Excavation: Duane Linklater and Tanya Lukin Linklater, Erin Sutherland, Tiffany Collinge-Shaw, Duane Linklater and Tanya Lukin Linklater, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- 2015 ‘Untitled ( )’, Far Away, So Close, Part III, Access Gallery, Vancouver
- 2013 ‘Decommission’, Duane Linklater: Decommission, MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Canada
- 2011 ‘Wake Up Waniska’, in A Small Gathering for the Healing of Our Aboriginal Languages, edited by Peter Morin, Western Front, Vancouver
Published Writing in Magazines and Periodicals
- 2023 ‘Ewako’, Poem-a-Day, 8 August
- 2022 ‘Event scores’, ‘She Senses’, edited by Michael Nardone, OEI, Special Issue on Aural Poetics, November
‘Suk’, The Capilano Review, Issue 3/3 50th Anniversary Issue, Fall - 2019 ‘Choice: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers’ Biithos (Rebel)’, Inuit Art Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 2, Summer, Film
‘How we mark land and how land marks us’, with Megan McLaurin, Movement Research Performance Journal, guest edited by Rosy Simas and Ahimsa Bodhran, Issue 52/53, Sovereign Movements: Native Dance and Performance
- 2017 ‘On the Museum’, Inuit Art Quarterly, Volume 30, Issue 2, Summer, Museums
‘Joan Jonas / Affinities’, with Olivia Boudreau, Barbara Clausen, Corinn Gerber, Simone Forti, taisha paggett, Erin Silver and Robin Simpson, C Magazine, Issue 132, Winter
- 2016 ‘An Event Score for Afognak Alutiit 1-4’, ‘An Event Score for Haunting (Eve Tuck)’, ‘An Event Score for the Epistemic Violence of Translation (Edgar Heap of Birds)’, with Andrew Berardini, Mousse, Issue 54
‘The Insistence of a Crow Archivist, Wendy Red Star’, BlackFlash Magazine, Issue 33, Number 2, Spring
‘Nohkom’, and ‘44’, First Americans in the Arts, Issue 10, Spring
‘Slow Scrape’, Congress on Research in Dance, guest edited by Jacqueline Shea Murphy, Volume 48, Special Issue 1, Indigenous Dance Today
- 2015 ‘The Edges and the Centres’, C Magazine, Issue 127, Autumn
As/Us Journal, poetry guest editor, Issue 5
- 2014 ‘The Harvest Sturdies (excerpts)’, Taos International Journal of Poetry and Art, Issue 5
‘Untitled’, As/Us Journal, guest edited by Tria Andrews, Issue 4, Decolonial Love
- 2012 ‘In Memoriam’, Native American Women’s Poetry Anthologies of Poetry, guest edited by Layli Long Soldier, Issue 15, Drunken Boat
- 2015 ‘A Girl’ and ‘Not Like Us’, excerpted in Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art and Thought, guest edited by Joan Kane, Southwest Minnesota State University, Spring
- 2010 ‘(wake up waniska he nudges me)’, in Ice Floe: New & Selected Poems, edited by Shannon Gramsce and Sarah Kirk, University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks, Alaska
- 2008 ‘Avva's Telling’, in The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: Sense Memory and High-definition Inuit Storytelling, edited by Gillian Robinson, Isuma
Artist Talks, Lectures, and Readings
- 2022 Conversation with Layli Long Soldier, for My mind is with the weather, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
‘Arctic/Amazon: Knowledge Exchange Workshop’, with Gerald McMaster, and Nina Vincent, organized by Wapatah Centre, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
‘On felt structures’, California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita, USA
‘My mind is with the weather’, Center for World Performance Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
‘My mind is with the weather’, Orion Visiting Artist at University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
‘Living the Land, A Counter Cartographies Panel’, panel, with Sonya Kelliher-Combs, and Niap, moderated by Aaron Leggett, for Counter Cartographies: Living the Land Anchorage, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, USA
Talk with Brenda Draney, moderated by Gaetane Verna, for The best stories I know come from late night car rides or kitchen tables., Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver
‘Land as Art’, panel, with Maureen Grubeen, Kablusiak, and Tania Willard, Native American Indigenous Studies Association, Dechinta
‘Colonial Legacies: Spaces as Witness’, panel, with Jamilla James, Amy Lien, Enzo Camacho, and Eunsong Kim, for 2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum, New York, USA - 2021 Conversation with Karen Pheasant Neganigwane, moderated by Clare Butcher, Ontario Culture Days; Toronto Biennial of Art, Toronto, Canada
‘Kin-Ship-Matter’, panel, with Amrita Hepi, Talei Luscia Mangioni, Sarah Biscarra Dilley, Live Futures, Live Works Festival of Experimental Art, Eveleigh, Australia
‘Challenges to Inuit Art Sovereignty’, with Taqralik Partridge, Sven Haakanson, Jr., moderated by Tanya Lukin Linklater, Inuit Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA; Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, Anchorage, USA
‘Artists in Conversation: Tanya Lukin Linklater and Raven Chacon’, for The Language in Common, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA
‘Conversation with Karen Pheasant-Neganigwane and Tanya Lukin Linklater’, Toronto Biennial of Art and Ontario Culture Days, Toronto, Canada
‘Poetry Reading by Tanya Lukin Linklater’, for The Language in Common, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA
‘Panel Discussion with Dylan Robinson, Tanya Lukin Linklater, and Raven Chacon’, for Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada
‘Indigenous Movement: A Discussion’, for Commonwealth, Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth, Richmond, USA - 2020 ‘Choreographies of the Archipelago: Artists in Conversation’, Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance, Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA
Visual Art Forum, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada Studio visit with Catherine Wood, for Constellations: Indigenous Contemporary Art from the Americas, Hyundai Tate Research Centre, London, UK; Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico - 2019 ‘SOFT POWER Artists’ Discussion’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
‘We wear one another: gestures towards repatriation through performance’, talk, Institute for Diversity in the Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
‘Amplifying memory through many minds: Performance and cultural belongings’, talk and performance, Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley, USA
‘We wear one another/Soundings: Indigenous performance and cultural belongings’, keynote, Summer Indigenous Art Intensive, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Kelowna, Canada
‘Making and Thinking: Alongside the North’, keynote, Cold Waters Media Arts Symposium and Festival, North Bay, Canada
‘We wear one another: Indigenous performance and cultural belongings’, Nipissing University, North Bay, Canada
‘Against Hungry Listening’, with Layli Long Soldier, for Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
‘Gestures for those before us’, for Living Histories, York University, Toronto, Canada Conversation with Zab Maboungou, for On Breathing and Braiding, Arts Everywhere Festival, Guelph, Canada
- 2018 ‘New Imaginaries’, with Kent Monkman and Archer Pechawis, for Aabaakwad (It clears after a storm), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
‘The treaty is in the body’, Treaty Education Mentorship Program, Nipissing University and Near North Schools, North Bay, Canada
‘Gestures that remember and insist’, keynote, for Maamwizing: Pursuing Indigenous Research in a Good Way, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada
‘Choreographies of Futurisms’, for Writers’ Workshop: Critical Scholarship in Indigenous Dance, University of California - Riverside, Riverside, USA
- 2017 ‘Determined by the river: a discursive event’, with Joi T. Arcand, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Lori Blondeau, Ruth Cuthand, Tasha Hubbard, Elwood Jimmy and Erica Violet Lee, organized by Tanya Lukin Linklater and Duane Linkater, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
‘Wood Land School: Drawing a Line from January to December’, discursive events, with Elisa Harkins, Ts̱ēmā Igharas, Brian Jungen, Duane Linklater, Layli Long Soldier, and cheyanne turions, for Wood Land School, Montreal, Canada
‘Opening the Dialogue’, conversation, with Raven Davis, John G. Hampton, Duane Linklater, and Peter Morin, for In Dialogue, University of Toronto Art Museum, Toronto, Canada
Conversation with Wanda Nanibush, for Sun Force, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
‘Residues and Collaborations’, School of Fine Art and Music, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
‘Sovereignty: The Indigenous Present’, conversation, with Duane Linklater, Audra Simpson and Jackson Polys, for Duane Linklater: From Our Hands, 80WSE Gallery, New York, USA
‘Indigenous Choreographers from Turtle Island’, round table discussion, for Oyate Okodakiciyapi, Ordway Center and The Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts, Minneapolis, USA
‘A Glossary of Insistence’, talk, for ‘Rematriation and Other Indigenous Feminist Theories of Change’, panel, with Eve Tuck, Jeneen Frei Njootli and Karyn Recollet, for Native American Indigenous Studies Association Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
‘Embodying Place: Thinking through projections, body and land as sites for screens that invoke social change’, round table discussion, with Julie Nagam, Mique’l Dangeli, Erin Sutherland, Carla Taunton, Shana MacDonald, and Kimber Sider, Canadian Association for Theatre Research, Toronto, Canada
‘A Glossary of Insistence’, invited panel, with Duane Linklater, for Kinship, Communitas, Comunidad - Afterall Symposium, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada
- 2016 ‘Tanya Lukin Linklater, Dineo Seshee Bopape and Zac Langdon-Pole’, for Le Grand Balcon, Canadian Centre for Architecture, La Biennale de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Artist talk with Duane Linklater, for A Parallel Excavation, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
‘Affinities’, conversation, with Joan Jonas, taisha paggett, Barbara Clausen, and Cheryl Sim, Hexagram UQAM/Concordia, for Joan Jonas: Far Away, DHC/Art, Montreal, Canada
‘A glossary of insistence’, for A Symposium on Directions in Contemporary Indigenous Art, for Wood Land School, Or Gallery and SFU Galleries, Vancouver, Canada
‘Conversation with Lori Blondeau and Tasha Hubbard’, for Turn Out, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
- 2015 ‘Art, Indigeneity and Institutions’, for Performa, Institute of Modern Art – Brisbane, Aboriginal Embassy, New York, USA
‘Talkin’ back to Johnny Mac’, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
‘Slow Scrape’, invited panel, for Symposium on Indigenous Dance Now, University of California – Riverside, Riverside, USA; for Medicine Ways Conference, University of California – Riverside, Riverside, USA; for Dream Big Conference, with Lee Maracle, Alejandro Ronceria and Jules Koostachin, North Bay, Canada
- 2014 ‘A Problem So Big It Needs Other People’, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
- 2013 ‘You Are Here: Visualizing Place at the Gateway to the North’, Near North Arts, North Bay, Canada
- 2012 Indigenous Choreographers Residency, Barbara & Art Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, USA
- 2011 ‘Performing Memory’, Open Sky Creative Society, Fort Simpson, Canada
‘Acting Out: Claiming Space’, Aboriginal Performance Art Series, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
- 2008 Pine Tree Lecture, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada
‘Indigenous Literatures and Performance’, keynote conversation, with Deanna Kingston, for Indigenous Literatures and Other Arts: A Symposium and Workshop, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
‘Performing Practice’, for Aboriginal Curatorial Collective’s Colloquium, Shaq’sthut—The Gathering Place, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Residencies and Mentorships
- 2023 Artist in residence, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, USA
- 2022 Wex Artist Residency Award in Visual Arts 2022-23, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbia, USA
Creatives In Residence Program, Ontario Culture Days, Toronto, Canada
California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita, USA - 2019 Residency with three dancers, Whitewater Gallery, North Bay, Canada
- 2017 Residency with Laura Ortman, Hanako Hoshimi-Caines and Elisa Harkins in support of the development of a site-specific performance, How we mark land and how land marks us, Thousand Islands National Park, with support from LandMarks 2017 and Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
Residency with dancers Ceinwen Gobert and Danah Rosales in support of the development of a site-specific performance, Sun Force, in relation to Rita Letendre’s exhibition, Fire and Light, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Residency with three dancers, All My Relations Arts, Minneapolis, USA
- 2012-2014 Aw’a Dance Residencies in Alaska Native dance and Inuit athletics for youth, Near North Schools, Nipissing/Parry Sound Catholic District School Board and Nipissing University, North Bay and Powassan, Canada, with support from the Ontario Arts Council
- 2013 You Are Here: Visualizing Place at the Gateway to the North, Near North Arts, North Bay, Ontario
- 2008 Residency in support of the development of a solo performance at Sisters and Grandmothers of the North: A Festival of Inuit Art, Indigenous Performance Initiatives and Trent University, Peterborough, Canada
- 2006 Visualeyez: Domesticity, Latitude 53: Visual Culture. Edmonton
Performing Arts Mentor, National Aboriginal Professional Artist Training Program, En’owkin Centre, Penticton, Canada
Awards
- 2021 The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, Visual Arts, Santa Monica, USA
- 2019 Art Writing Award, Ontario Association of Art Galleries, for ‘The Interlopers, an Exhibition by Mary Anne Barkhouse’, in Mary Anne Barkhouse: The Interlopers, MacLaren Art Centre, 2018
- 2018 Inaugural recipient, Wanda Koop Research Fund, organized by Canadian Art
- 2013 KM Hunter Artist Award in Literature, KM Hunter Charitable Foundation, Toronto, Canada
- 2009 Le Lobe’s Art Nomade, Alma College, Alma, and Jonquiere College, Jonquiere, Canada