Tanya Lukin Linklater

Alutiiq artist and choreographer (born 1976)

Tanya Lukin Linklater

Born| 1976 (age 47-48)

Kodiak Island, Alaska, United States

Alma mater|

* Stanford University
* University of Alberta

Known for| Collaborative performance artist, installation artist
Spouse| Duane Linklater
Website| www.tanyalukinlinklater.com

Tanya Lukin Linklater (born 1976) is an artist-choreographer of Alutiiq descent. Her work consists of performance collaborations, videos, photographs, and installations.

## Biography[edit]

Linklater was raised in Afognak and Port Lions in Kodiak Island (Alaska). Married to Omaskêko Ininiwakartist Duane Linklater, she now lives and works in North Bay, Ontario, Canada.[1]

Holding a B.A. (honours) from Stanford University and a M.Ed. from the University of Alberta, Linklater is currently pursuing a PhD in cultural studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.[2]

Her practice includes performance, works for camera, writings, and installations, with an emphasis on collaboration with other Indigenous artists.[3] Linklater's work is informed by the relationships between bodies, histories, poetry, pedagogy, Indigenous conceptual spaces, including Indigenous languages, and institutions.[4]

Linklater was selected as the first Annual Indigenous Artist-In-Residence at All My Relations Arts in Minneapolis, MN. She served in the role from February 26 to March 5, 2017.[5] That same year she was named artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). During her August residency, she collaborated with dancers on the performance Sun Force as a response to the AGO's exhibition Rita Letendre: Fire and Light.[6]

In 2017, she co-founded the Wood Land School at the SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art along with her husband and fellow artist, Duane, curator cheyanne turions and artist-author Walter Kaheró:ton Scott.[7] Wood Land School: Kahatenhstánion tsi na’tetiatere ne Iotohrkó:wa tánon Iotohrha / Drawing Lines from January to December was explained by the collection as a "single year-long exhibition that will unfold through a series of gestures—clusters of activity that bring works into and out of the gallery space—such that the exhibition is in a constant state of becoming."[8]

In 2022, Tanya participated in the Aichi Triennale and the Toronto Biennial of Art.[9]

## Awards[edit]

In 2013 Linklater received the K.M. Hunter Artist Award in Literature.[10] She has also been awarded multiple grants from the Ontario Arts Council.[11] In 2018, Linklater was awarded the Inaugural Wanda Koop Research Fund, presented by Canadian Art magazine.[12]

## Select exhibitions[edit]

### Solo[edit]

* Constellation/conversation (with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Cris Derksen, Layli Long Soldier, and cheyanne turions), ArtSpace, Peterborough, Ontario (2016).[3]
* A Parallel Excavation (with Duane Linklater), curated by Ociciwan Contemporary Art Collective, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (2016).[13]
* Determined by the River (with Duane Linklater), Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. (2017)[14]
* Slay All Day: Tanya Lukin Linklater, ma ma, Toronto. (2018) [15]

### Group[edit]

* Reading the Line, with Alma Alloro, Anne Low, Maggie Groat, and Lis Rhodes at Western Front (2015).
* Le Grand Balcon, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec (2016).[16]
* Traces, Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, Manitoba (2017).[17]
* A Few Similar Things, Truck Gallery, Calgary, Alberta (2017).[18]
* Wood Land School: Kahatenhstánion tsi na’tetiatere ne Iotohrkó:wa tánon Iotohrha / Drawing Lines from January to December, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Quebec (2017).[19]
* Wood Land School: Under the Mango Tree, Documenta 14, Athens, Greece, and Kassel, Germany (2017).[20]
* INSURGENCE/RESURGENCE, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba (2017).[21]
* Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas (2018).[22]
* In Dialogue, organized by John G. Hampton, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Manitoba. Co-produced by the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, and the Carleton University Art Gallery (2018).[23]
* Inaabiwin (with Scott Benesiinaabandan, Hannah Claus, Meryl McMaster, and Greg Staats), curated by Danielle Printup, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario (2018) [touring exhibition].[24][25]
* Indigenous geometries (with Tiffany Shaw-Collinge, composer Laura Ortman, dancers Ivanie Aubin-Malo and Ceinwen Gobert), Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago (2019).[26]
* Soft Power, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California. (2019).[27]
* Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, curated by Candice Hopkins (Tlingit) and Dylan Robinson (Stó:lō), Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, Kingston, Ontario (2019).[28]
* Are You My Mother?, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan (2019).[29]
* Larger Than Memory: Contemporary Art From Indigenous North America (2020).[30]

## Publications[edit]

* Three Parts on Poetry: Orality and Action, The Edges and the centre, Voices On Her Cures, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Hanne Lippard, and Tiziana La Melia, C Magazine, Issue 127.[31]
* The Insistence of a Crow Archivist: Wendy Red Star, Tanya Lukin Linklater, BlackFlash Magazine, 2017.
* Slow Scrape, 2020.[32][33]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Riddle, Emily (July 31, 2017). "Forms of Freedom". Canadian Art. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
2. ^ "BIO". Tanya Lukin Linklater. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
3. ^ a b Cwynar, Kari (16 November 2016). "Tanya Lukin Linklater's Choreography of Space". Inuit Art Quarterly. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
4. ^ "Indigenous artists featured at GNO". Sudbury Star. May 30, 2017. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
5. ^ "All My Relations Arts". www.allmyrelationsarts.com. 22 February 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
6. ^ "Tanya Lukin Linklater". Art Gallery of Ontario. 2017. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
7. ^ Hampton, John (2 May 2017). "Inside a Year-Long Experiment in Indigenous Institutional Critique". Canadian Art. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
8. ^ "Wood Land School : Kahatenhstánion tsi na'tetiatere ne Iotohrkó:wa tánon Iotohrha Drawing Lines from January to December". SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
9. ^ "Artists". torontobiennial.org. Toronto Biennial. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
10. ^ "2013 K.M. Hunter Artist Award Winners". www.kmhunterfoundation.ca. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
11. ^ "Ontario Arts Council, Aboriginal Arts Projects Results Announcement, 2016". www.arts.on.ca. 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2017.
12. ^ "Tanya Lukin Linklater Receives Inaugural Wanda Koop Research Fund". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
13. ^ Sutherland, Erin (2016). A Parallel Excavation: Duane Linklater and Tanya Lukin Linklater. Art Gallery of Alberta.
14. ^ "Determined by the river". Remai Modern. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
15. ^ "Tanya Lukin Linklater Explores Silence in the Art of Indigenous Storytelling". Hyperallergic. 2018-10-12. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
16. ^ "Artists | La Biennale de Montréal". www.bnlmtl2016.org. Archived from the original on 2016-06-22.
17. ^ "Tanya Lukin Linklater, Dion Kaszas, and Jaime Black: Traces". Galleries West. 2017-04-26. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
18. ^ "Truck - Contemporary Art in Calgary". www.truck.ca. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
19. ^ "Inside a Year-Long Experiment in Indigenous Institutional Critique". Canadian Art. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
20. ^ "Wood Land School Goes to Documenta: A Discussion on Indigenous Institutional Critique, Part 2". Canadian Art. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
21. ^ Zoratti, Jen (2017-09-22). "Shaking the foundations". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
22. ^ "Art for a New Understanding". Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
23. ^ "In Dialogue | Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba". agsm.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
24. ^ "Inaabiwin". Retrieved 2019-03-14.
25. ^ "Starting a Conversation About Indigenous Art". Carleton Newsroom. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
26. ^ "Tanya Lukin Linklater & Tiffany Shaw-Collinge « Contributors « Chicago Architecture Biennial". chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org. Retrieved 2020-06-26.
27. ^ Loos, Ted (2019-10-23). "In San Francisco, Wielding Influence (Gently) Through Art". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-02-27.
28. ^ "Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts | Agnes Etherington Art Centre". agnes.queensu.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
29. ^ "Are You My Mother? | Regina Public Library". www.reginalibrary.ca. Retrieved 2019-03-14.
30. ^ "Larger Than Memory: Contemporary Art from Indigenous North America at the Heard Museum". Larger Than Memory. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
31. ^ "Three Parts on Poetry: Orality and Action, The Edges and the Centre, Voices On Her Cures". C Magazine. Autumn 2015. Retrieved 2018-03-24.
32. ^ "Slow Scrape - Tanya Lukin Linklater". Anteism Books. Retrieved 2021-02-26.
33. ^ Lukin Linklater, Tanya. Slow scrape. Montreal: The Centre for Expanded Poetics & Anteism. OCLC 1197782568.

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Germany
* United States