Duane Linklater is Omaskêko Cree, from Moose Cree First Nation in Northern Ontario and is currently based in North Bay, Ontario. He has exhibited and screened his work nationally and internationally at the Vancouver Art Gallery; Family Business Gallery, New York; Te Tuhi Centre for Arts Auckland; City Arts Centre, Edinburgh; Institute of Contemporary Arts Philadelphia; and the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. His collaborative film project with Brian Jungen, Modest Livelihood, was originally presented at the Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Center as a part of dOCUMENTA (13) with subsequent exhibitions of this work at the Logan Centre Gallery at the University of Chicago (curated by Monika Szewcyyk), and the Art Gallery of Ontario (curated by Kitty Scott). Duane was also the recipient of the 2013 Sobey Art Award, an annual prize given to an artist under 40. Duane is currently represented by Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver.
