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

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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.

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Education

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Linklater attended the University of Alberta from 2000-2005, and was awarded a Bachelor of Native Studies and a Bachelor of Fine Arts.

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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:

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  • 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.

    • 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.

    References

    Duane Linklater Wikipedia
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