Tanya Lukin Linklater

TANYA LUKIN LINKLATER is an Alutiiq/Sugpiaq artist. Her performances, works for camera, installations, and writings centre histories of Indigenous peoples’ lives, lands, and structures of sustenance. Her performances in relation to objects in exhibition, scores, and ancestral belongings generate what she calls felt structures. In 2021 Tanya received the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for Visual Art. She is an Artist Mentor in the MFA in Studio Arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts and a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies at Queen's University.