Tanya Lukin Linklater

2024 Program Artist

A photograph portrait of artist Tanya Lukin Linklater. She is an Indigenous woman with fair skin, and long brown hair. She has brown eyes and is wearing thin-framed glasses. She has a small smile on her face and is looking into the camera. She is wearing a black blazer.

Tanya Lukin Linklater’s (b. 1979, Alaska; she/her) practice and writings cite Indigenous dance and visual art lineages, our structures of sustenance, and weather. She undertakes embodied inquiry and site-specific rehearsals. Her recent exhibitions include Aichi Triennale, Japan; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; New Museum Triennial, New York; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Inner blades of grass (soft), inner blades of grass (cured), inner blades of grass (bruised by weather), curated by Kelly Kivland, was presented by the Wexner Center for the Arts in 2024. She is represented by Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver. Her Sugpiaq homelands are the Kodiak archipelago of southwestern Alaska, and she lives and works in Nbisiing Anishnaabeg aki.

Program

Preview: With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. With ground, grass, trees, songbirds. (We are held)

With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. With ground, grass, trees, songbirds. (We are held) is a series of site-specific open rehearsals by Tanya Lukin Linklater taking place over four afternoons in High Park leading up to and during the opening of the 2024 Toronto Biennial of Art. Building upon her 2023 project presented with TBA, The […]

date and time

September 19, September 20

1:00pm – 4:00pm

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CANCELLED: With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. With ground, grass, trees, songbirds. (We are held)

Due to an incident at High Park beyond our control, today’s (Sunday, September 22nd) open rehearsal session is cancelled. With sky, sunlight, clouds, wind. With ground, grass, trees, songbirds. (We are held) is a series of site-specific open rehearsals by Tanya Lukin Linklater taking place over four afternoons in High Park leading up to and […]

date and time

September 21, September 22

1:00pm – 4:00pm

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Panel Discussion: Release: Towards an unburdening

This conversation will delve into the powerful themes and artists showcased in Labour, an exhibition at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto that includes text, film, and installation works. TBA 2024 Program artist Tanya Lukin Linklater will join panelists La Tanya S. Autry and Chantal Gibson. Together, they will explore critical questions such […]

Donors & Supporters

Canada Council for the Arts

Partners

Art Museum at the University of Toronto
Cinema Studies Institute
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