Tanya Lukin Linklater’s performances, installations, and writings cite Indigenous dance and visual art lineages, structures of sustenance, and weather. She undertakes embodied inquiry and rehearsal with dance artists in relation to scores and ancestral belongings, often in museums. Her work reckons with Indigenous peoples’ lived experiences, (home)lands, and ideas.
Recently, Tanya’s work has traveled to the 14th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; Aichi Triennale, Japan; Art Gallery of Ontario; Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver; Chicago Architecture Biennial; National Gallery of Canada; New Museum Triennial, New York; Remai Modern, Saskatoon; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Toronto Biennial of Art.
Tanya is a recipient of the Artist Residency Award from the Wexner Center for the Arts, The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, and was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award. Her first collection of poetry, Slow Scrape, was published by The Centre for Expanded Poetics and Anteism, with a second edition released by Talonbooks. A dedicated educator, Tanya will convocate with a PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University this fall.
Tanya’s Sugpiaq homelands are in southwestern Alaska. She has lived and worked in Nbisiing Anishinaabeg Aki for nearly 15 years.
