Duane Linklater | |
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Born | 1976 (age 47–48)
Moose Factory,
Ontario, Canada |
Alma mater | |
Spouse | Tanya Lukin |
Awards | Sobey Art Award (2013) |
Duane Linklater (born 1976) is an artist of Omaskêko Cree ancestry.
Born in Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada, Linklater now lives in North Bay. [1] He is married to artist-choreographer, Tanya Lukin Linklater.
Linklater attended the University of Alberta from 2000-2005 and was awarded a Bachelor of Native Studies and a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He also studied at Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts from 2010 and completed a Master of Fine Arts in video and film in 2012. [1]
Linklater has exhibited his work at various galleries and exhibitions including the Art Gallery of Ontario (2013); [2] documenta 14; [3] the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (2015); [4] the Vancouver Art Gallery (2015); [5] and the Art Gallery of Alberta (2016). [6]
In 2018, Linklater installed pêyakotênaw—a public artwork comprising three large teepee sculptures—along the High Line in New York. [7] In an exhibition shown in 2021 in Seattle and in Chicago in 2023, Linklater employed a range of mediums -- sculpture, video and textile -- in order "to address the contradictions of contemporary Indigenous life within—and beyond—settler systems of knowledge, representation, and value." [8] Linklater was featured in the 2022 Whitney Biennial: Quiet as It's Kept, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. [9] In 2023, the Art Gallery of Hamilton exhibited Duane Linklater: they have piled the stone / as they promised / without syrup which explored the architecture of the Bishop Fauquier Memorial Chapel in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, a small Gothic and Tudor style sandstone chapel built in 1881. [1] Also in 2023, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) organized Duane Linklater: mymothersside, the artist’s first major survey exhibition which included large-scale structures, sculpture and video that focused on enduring ancestral practices as well as digital translations of tribal objects held in institutional collections. [10]
He is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery. [11]
In 2013, Linklater won the $50,000 Sobey Art Award. [21] In May 2016, along with Geoffrey Farmer, Linklater was the inaugural recipient of a Be3Dimensional Innovation Fund grant of $50,000 for a 3D printing project. [22] In July 2016, Linklater won the $15,000 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Media Arts, awarded by the Canada Council for the arts. [23] In 2017, Linklater was awarded a public commission for the Don River Valley Park, Toronto. [24] [19]