Duane Linklater

Born in Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada, Linklater now lives in North Bay. 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.

Linklater has exhibited his work at various galleries and exhibitions including the Art Gallery of Ontario (2013);{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://ago.ca/exhibitions/brian-jungen-and-duane-linklater-modest-liveliho |website=ago.ca |publisher=Art Gallery of Ontario |access-date=26 February 2023}} documenta 14;{{cite web |title=Wood Land School Goes to Documenta: A Talk on Indigenous Institutional Critique, Part 2 |url=https://canadianart.ca/features/wood-land-school-documenta |website=canadianart.ca |publisher=Canadian Art, 2017 |access-date=26 February 2023}} the Utah Museum of Fine Arts (2015);{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://www.artandeducation.net/announcements/106837/salt-11-duane-linklater |website=www.artandeducation.net |publisher=Utah Museum of Fine Art |access-date=26 February 2023}} the Vancouver Art Gallery (2015);{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/exhibitions/residue-the-persistence-of-the-real |website=www.vanartgallery.bc.ca |publisher=Vancouver Art Gallery |access-date=26 February 2023}} and the Art Gallery of Alberta (2016).{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://www.youraga.ca/exhibitions/parallel-excavation-duane-linklater-and-tanya-lukin-linklater |website=www.youraga.ca |publisher=AGA |access-date=26 February 2023}}

In 2018, Linklater installed pêyakotênaw—a public artwork comprising three large teepee sculptures—along the High Line in New York.{{cite web |title=projects |url=https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/agora |website=www.thehighline.org |publisher=High Line |access-date=27 February 2023}} 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." Linklater was featured in the 2022 Whitney Biennial: Quiet as It's Kept, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.{{cite web |title=Artists |url=https://whitney.org/exhibitions/2022-biennial?section=34#exhibition-feature |website=whitney.org |publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art |access-date=27 February 2023}} 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.{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/exhibition/duane-linklater-they-have-piled-the-stone-as-they-promised-without-syrup/ |website=www.artgalleryofhamilton.com |publisher=AGH |access-date=26 February 2023}} 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.{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://bampfa.org/press/duane-linklater%E2%80%99s-first-major-survey-exhibition-opens-bampfa |website=bampfa.org |publisher=Bampfa |access-date=21 October 2023}}

He is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery.{{cite web |title=Artists |url=https://catrionajeffries.com/artists/duane-linklater |website=catrionajeffries.com |publisher=Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver}}

• Modest Livelihood, a project with Brian Jungen about a hunting trip that was commissioned for documenta (13) curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.{{cite web |title=Brian Jungen & Duane Linklater: Modest Livelihood |url=https://arts.uchicago.edu/logan-center/logan-center-exhibitions/archive/brian-jungen-duane-linklater-modest-livelihood |website=arts.uchicago.edu |publisher=UChicago |access-date=27 February 2023}}
• 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.{{cite web |title=The Origins of Indigenous Objects and the Distances They Travel |url=https://hyperallergic.com/397821/the-origins-of-indigenous-objects-and-the-distances-they-travel |website=hyperallergic.com |date=28 August 2017 |publisher=Hyperallergic |access-date=19 November 2022}}
• Mikikwan (2018), a concrete reproduction of a hide scraper.{{cite web |title=Collection |url=https://edmontonpublicart.ca/#!/details/187 |website=edmontonpublicart.ca |publisher=City of Edmonton Collection |access-date=27 February 2023}}
• Tautology (2011-2013), a neon bird appropriated from a prominent painting by Norval Morrisseau.{{cite web |title=Collection |url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/tautology |website=www.gallery.ca |publisher=National Gallery of Canada |access-date=27 February 2023}}
• 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."{{cite web |last1=Linklater |first1=Duane |title=Article |url=https://cmagazine.com/articles/sunrise-at-cape-spear-newfoundland |website=cmagazine.com |publisher=C Magazine |access-date=27 February 2023}}
• Learning, an exhibition in the Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, organized by Althea Thauberger.{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://artmap.com/susanhobbs/exhibition/duane-linklater-learning-2013 |website=artmap.com |access-date=27 February 2023}}
• What Then Remains, a permanent installation inside the longest wall in Mercer Union, Toronto.{{cite web|last1=Gerges|first1=Merray|title=Duane Linklater Imagines Indigenous Futures|url=https://canadianart.ca/features/duane-linklater-imagines-indigenous-futures/|website=Canadian Art|access-date=12 October 2016}}
• Monsters for beauty, permanence and individuality, 14 cast concrete sculptures at Don River Valley Park in Toronto.{{Cite web|url=https://donrivervalleypark.ca/things-to-do/art/duane-linklater-monsters-for-beauty-permanence-and-individuality/|title = Duane Linklater: Monsters for Beauty, Permanence and Individuality | the Don River Valley Park}}
• mymothersside, installation at the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington(2021){{cite web |title=Duane Linklater: mymothersside |url=https://fryemuseum.org/exhibitions/duane-linklater-mymothersside |website=fryemuseum.org |access-date=22 June 2023}} and at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2023).{{cite web |title=Duane Linklater: mymothersside |url=https://visit.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/duane-linklater-mymothersside/ |website=mcachicago.org |access-date=22 June 2023}}

In 2013, Linklater won the $50,000 Sobey Art Award.{{cite web|title=2013 winner: Duane Linklater - Announcements - e-flux|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/32040/2013-winner-duane-linklater/|website=www.e-flux.com|accessdate=5 December 2017|language=en|date=16 October 2013}}

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.{{cite web |last1=Whyte |first1=Murray |title=Geoffrey Farmer and Duane Linklater strike out for 'terra incognita' |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2016/05/27/geoffrey-farmer-and-duane-linklater-strike-out-for-terra-incognita.html |website=www.thestar.com |date=27 May 2016 |publisher=Toronto Star, 2016 |access-date=26 February 2023}}

In July 2016, Linklater won the $15,000 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Media Arts, awarded by the Canada Council for the arts.{{cite web|last1=Sharpe|first1=Meredith|title=Meet our latest prize winners!|url=http://canadacouncil.ca/council/news-room/news/2016/summer-prize-bundle|website=Canada Council for the Arts|accessdate=12 October 2016}} In 2017, Linklater was awarded a public commission for the Don River Valley Park, Toronto.{{cite web |title=News Article |url=https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/10/09/sculptures-kick-off-unique-program.html |website=www.thestar.com |date=9 October 2017 |publisher=Toronto Star |access-date=27 February 2023}}

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