Duane Linklater (born 1976) is an artist of Omaskêko Cree ancestry.
Duane Linklater | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1976 (age 47–48) Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada |
| Alma mater | |
| Spouse | Tanya Lukin |
| Awards | Sobey Art Award (2013) |
Biography
editBorn 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]
Selected exhibitions
editLinklater 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]
Selected works
edit- Modest Livelihood, a project with Brian Jungen about a hunting trip that was commissioned for documenta (13) curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.[12]
- Distances, Origins, and Other Concerns, an open letter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City critical of the institution's display of a Cree object from the mid-1800s that was commissioned for Art in General by curator Laurel Ptak.[13]
- Mikikwan (2018), a concrete reproduction of a hide scraper.[14]
- Tautology (2011-2013), a neon bird appropriated from a prominent painting by Norval Morrisseau.[15]
- Cape Spear, a five-year intervention editing the Cape Spear Wikipedia page to add the words "At 6:24am NST 3/10/2011, Duane Linklater watched the sunrise. He traveled there to see the sunrise, to be the first one before anyone else."[16]
- Learning, an exhibition in the Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, organized by Althea Thauberger.[17]
- What Then Remains, a permanent installation inside the longest wall in Mercer Union, Toronto.[18]
- Monsters for beauty, permanence and individuality, 14 cast concrete sculptures at Don River Valley Park in Toronto.[19]
- mymothersside, installation at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington(2021)[8] and at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2023).[20]
Awards
editIn 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]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Exhibitions". www.artgalleryofhamilton.com. AGH. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
- ^ "Exhibitions". ago.ca. Art Gallery of Ontario. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
- ^ "Wood Land School Goes to Documenta: A Talk on Indigenous Institutional Critique, Part 2". canadianart.ca. Canadian Art, 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
- ^ "Exhibitions". www.artandeducation.net. Utah Museum of Fine Art. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
- ^ "Exhibitions". www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. Vancouver Art Gallery. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
- ^ "Exhibitions". www.youraga.ca. AGA. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
- ^ "projects". www.thehighline.org. High Line. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
- ^ a b "Duane Linklater: mymothersside". fryemuseum.org. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
- ^ "Artists". whitney.org. Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
- ^ "Exhibitions". bampfa.org. Bampfa. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
- ^ "Artists". catrionajeffries.com. Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.
- ^ "Brian Jungen & Duane Linklater: Modest Livelihood". arts.uchicago.edu. UChicago. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
- ^ "The Origins of Indigenous Objects and the Distances They Travel". hyperallergic.com. Hyperallergic. 28 August 2017. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ "Collection". edmontonpublicart.ca. City of Edmonton Collection. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
- ^ "Collection". www.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
- ^ Linklater, Duane. "Article". cmagazine.com. C Magazine. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
- ^ "Exhibitions". artmap.com. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
- ^ Gerges, Merray. "Duane Linklater Imagines Indigenous Futures". Canadian Art. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- ^ a b "Duane Linklater: Monsters for Beauty, Permanence and Individuality | the Don River Valley Park".
- ^ "Duane Linklater: mymothersside". mcachicago.org. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
- ^ "2013 winner: Duane Linklater - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. 16 October 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
- ^ Whyte, Murray (27 May 2016). "Geoffrey Farmer and Duane Linklater strike out for 'terra incognita'". www.thestar.com. Toronto Star, 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
- ^ Sharpe, Meredith. "Meet our latest prize winners!". Canada Council for the Arts. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- ^ "News Article". www.thestar.com. Toronto Star. 9 October 2017. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
Sources
edit- "Duane Linklater - Canadian Art". Retrieved 2016-09-08.
- ""Decolonizing the Collection": artists Duane Linklater, Christopher Stackhouse and anthropologist Audra Simpson at CUNY Graduate Center, 2015". Retrieved 2016-09-08.
- "2013 Sobey Art Award won by Duane Linklater | Toronto Star". thestar.com. 9 October 2013. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
- "Artists Geoffrey Farmer, Duane Linklater earn 3D printing grants". Retrieved 2016-09-08.
- "Geoffrey Farmer and Duane Linklater strike out for 'terra incognita' | Toronto Star". thestar.com. 27 May 2016. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
- Cochrane, Steven Leyden (21 July 2016). "Altered states". Winnipeg Free Press. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
- "Edmonton unveils six new public art pieces for Indigenous Art Park". 2016-04-13. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
- "Duane Linklater: Two worlds, gently colliding | Toronto Star". thestar.com. 21 June 2013. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
- "Unspooling the landscape with Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater". Retrieved 2016-09-08.
- Berlin, Mira. "Duane Linklater". Retrieved 2016-09-08.