Tanya Lukin Linklater

Tanya Lukin Linklater’s Sugpiaq homelands are in the Kodiak archipelago of southwestern Alaska. Her artistic practice spans video, sculpture, and dance in museums. Sensation, embodied inquiry, scores, rehearsal, and being in relation (to ancestral belongings, communities, and weather) structure her work. Through citation of Indigenous peoples’ lived experience and cultural work, she honours practices and lineages that exceed dominant ideas of who we are. Her recent exhibitions include Aichi Triennale, Japan; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; New Museum Triennial, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Toronto Biennial of Art. Her solo exhibition, Inner blades of grass (soft) (cured) (bruised by weather), including works from the last ten years and new commissions, was presented by the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio (2024). Her recent publications include poetry and art writing on Ruth Cuthand (forthcoming), Tsema Igharas, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, and Taqralik Partridge. Completing her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University in 2023, her doctoral writing emphasized weather, embodiment, and materiality while theorizing Indigenous performance.