Duane Linklater (born 1976) is an artist of Omaskêko Cree ancestry.

Biography

Born in Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada, Linklater now lives in North Bay. He is married to artist-choreographer,

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. 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.

Selected exhibitions

Linklater has exhibited his work at various galleries and exhibitions including the

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(2013); documenta 14; the

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(2015); the

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(2015); and the Art Gallery of Alberta (2016). In 2018, Linklater installed ''pêyakotênaw''—a public artwork comprising three large teepee sculptures—along the High Line in New York. In an exhibition shown in 2021 in

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and in

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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

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, New York. 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. He is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery.

Selected works

* ''Modest Livelihood'', a project with

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about a hunting trip that was commissioned for documenta (13) curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. * ''Distances, Origins, and Other Concerns'', an open letter to the

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in New York City critical of the institution's display of a Cree object from the mid-1800s that was commissioned for

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by curator Laurel Ptak. * ''Mikikwan'' (2018), a concrete reproduction of a

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scraper. * ''Tautology'' (2011-2013), a neon bird appropriated from a prominent painting by Norval Morrisseau. * ''Cape Spear'', a five-year intervention editing the

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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." * ''Learning'', an exhibition in the Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, organized by

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. * ''What Then Remains'', a permanent installation inside the longest wall in

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, Toronto. * ''Monsters for beauty, permanence and individuality'', 14 cast concrete sculptures at

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in Toronto. * ''mymothersside'', installation at the

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, Washington(2021) and at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2023).

Awards

In 2013, Linklater won the $50,000

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. 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. In July 2016, Linklater won the $15,000

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for Media Arts, awarded by the

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for the arts. In 2017, Linklater was awarded a public commission for the Don River Valley Park, Toronto.

References

Sources

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