Duane Linklater

Duane Linklater is an artist of Omaskêko Cree ancestry born in 1976 in Moose Factory, Ontario. He currently resides in North Bay and is married to artist-choreographer Tanya Lukin Linklater. Linklater earned a Bachelor of Native Studies and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Alberta between 2000 and 2005. He later obtained a Master of Fine Arts in video and film from Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts in 2012. Linklater has exhibited his work at prominent institutions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario (2013), documenta 14, the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (2015), the Vancouver Art Gallery (2015), and the Art Gallery of Alberta (2016). In 2018, he installed *pêyakotênaw*, a public artwork featuring three large teepee sculptures along New York’s High Line. His recent exhibitions in Seattle (2021) and Chicago (2023) explored contemporary Indigenous life through sculpture, video, and textiles. In 2022, Linklater was featured in the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The same year, he exhibited *Duane Linklater: they have piled the stone / as they promised / without syrup* at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, focusing on a historic chapel in Sault Ste. Marie. In 2023, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) organized his first major survey exhibition, *mymothersside*, showcasing large-scale structures, sculptures, and videos. Linklater has received several awards, including the $50,000 Sobey Art Award in 2013, a Be3Dimensional Innovation Fund grant in 2016, and the Victor Martyn ...