We are thrilled to welcome Duane Linklater to the gallery and are proud to collaborate on a promising journey.
Duane Linklater is an Omaskêko Ininiwak (Moose Cree First Nation) artist and was born in 1976. His practice explores and questions the conventions of the museum in relation to the current and historical conditions of Indigenous peoples, their objects, and approaches to materials. Strategically working across a range of media, including sculpture, installation, painting, and video, he addresses 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 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2018, Linklater installed pêyakotênaw—a public artwork comprising three large teepee sculptures—along the High Line in New York. He was the 2016 recipient of the Canada Council for the Arts Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Media Art, and the 2013 Sobey Art Award winner.
Linklater will open an exhibition in DIA Chelsea, New York and Secession, Vienna in September and November 2025.
He is also represented by Catriona Jeffries Vancouver. Linklater lives and works in North Bay, Ontario.