LUKIN LINKLATER, Tanya

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, ancestral belongings, and art works. Her work reckons with histories that affect Indigenous peoples’ lived experiences, (home)lands, and ideas. Her recent exhibitions include Aichi Triennale, Japan; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; New Museum Triennial, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Toronto Biennial of Art. In summer 2024 her solo exhibition, inner blades of grass (soft) inner blades of grass (cured) inner blades of grass (bruised by weather), curated by Kelly Kivland, will be presented by the Wexner Center for the Arts. She is represented by Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver. Her first collection of poetry, Slow Scrape, was published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism, Montréal in 2020 with a second edition released by Talonbooks, Vancouver. Her catalogue, My mind is with the weather, with contributions by Eungie Joo, Frances Loeffler, Layli Long Soldier, Tanya Lukin Linklater, and Beth Piatote will be launched in spring 2024 in Vancouver. Her Alutiiq/Sugpiaq homelands are in southwestern Alaska. She lives in Nbisiing Anishnaabeg aki.