Duane Linklater

Duane Linklater
Born1976 (age 44–45)
Moose Factory
Alma mater
Spouse(s)Tanya Lukin Linklater
AwardsSobey Art Award (2013)

Duane Linklater is an Omaskêko Cree artist.

Biography

Born in 1976 in Moose Factory, Ontario, Canada, he now lives in North Bay, Ontario.

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 Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts from 2010 and completed a Master of Fine Arts in 2012.

He has exhibited his work at various galleries and exhibitions including the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, documenta 14, the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Art Gallery of Alberta, and the Art Gallery of Ontario. He is represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery.

Select works
  • Modest Livelihood, a project with Brian Jungen about a hunting trip.
  • Mikikwan, a concrete reproduction of a hide scraper.
  • Tautology, a neon bird appropriated from a prominent painting by Norval Morrisseau
  • 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."
  • Learning, an exhibition in the Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto.
  • What Then Remains, a permanent installation inside the* longest wall in Mercer Union, Toronto.[1]
  • Monsters for beauty, permanence and individuality, 14 cast concrete sculptures at Don River Valley Park in Toronto.[2]

Awards

In 2013, Linklater won the $50,000 Sobey Art Award.[3] 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 Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Media Arts, awarded by the Canada Council for the arts.[4]

References
  1. Gerges, Merray. "Duane Linklater Imagines Indigenous Futures". Canadian Art. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
  2. https://donrivervalleypark.ca/things-to-do/art/duane-linklater-monsters-for-beauty-permanence-and-individuality/
  3. "2013 winner: Duane Linklater - Announcements - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. 16 October 2013. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
  4. Sharpe, Meredith. "Meet our latest prize winners!". Canada Council for the Arts. Retrieved 12 October 2016.

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