Tanya Lukin Linklater

Tanya Lukin Linklater’s performances, works for camera, installations and writings cite Indigenous dance and visual art lineages, our structures of sustenance and weather. She undertakes embodied inquiry and rehearsal in relation to scores and ancestral belongings in museums and elsewhere alongside dance artists, composers and poets. Her work reckons with histories that affect Indigenous peoples’ lived experiences, (home)lands and ideas. She has exhibited at the Aichi Triennale, Japan; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Chicago Architecture Biennial; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Gwangju Biennale; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; New Museum Triennial, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Toronto Biennial of Art. Linklater was the recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (2021) and the Wexner Center for the Arts Artist Residency Award (2022–23). She is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver. Her Alutiiq/Sugpiaq homelands are in the Kodiak Archipelago in southwestern Alaska. She lives and works in Nbisiing Anishinaabe Aki in northern Ontario.