Duane Linklater

Duane Linklater is an Omaskêko Cree artist. Born in 1976 in Moose Factory, Ontario Canada, he now lives in North Bay, Ontario.

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.

Education

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.

Works

Notable works include:

• 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]

Awards

In 2013, Linklater won the $50,000 Sobey Art Award. 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-Stuanton Award for Media Arts, awarded by the Canada Council for the arts.^[2]

References

1. Gerges, Merray. "Duane Linklater Imagines Indigenous Futures". Canadian Art. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
2. Sharpe, Meredith. "Meet our latest prize winners!". Canada Council for the Arts. Retrieved 12 October 2016.

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