Friday, May 23, 2025, 3:30 – 5 pm
Public Conversation with Andrea Carlson and Tanya Lukin Linklater
Moderated by Clara Halpern
The Pavilion
Join us as artist Tanya Lukin Linklater engages in a conversation with exhibiting artist Andrea Carlson. Lukin Linklater and Carlson each share a deep engagement with language in their work and both are prolific and thoughtful writers. Text in Anishinaabemowin and English is woven throughout the artworks in Carlson’s exhibition A Painting is a Coin, taking the form of interrogations of shared references that circulate in the world to personal tributes in the form of names of those who have been influential in her life and work. Lukin Linklater, in a recent conversation with Kendra Sullivan in Bomb Magazine, writes, “Poems are what I call short form—a breath in a lifetime of breathing.” Writing surfaces in Lukin Linklater’s work in multiple forms: in poetry, in the form of a score, the scaffolding for choreography, or in painted-form such as in the watercolour installation …a group of names forms a constellation—a structure of starlight that holds a poem together., 2024.
Carlson and Lukin Linklater have already been in a rich dialogue about their work, and this talk is continuation of that ongoing conversation.
Andrea Carlson is an artist based in Gichi Bitobig (Grand Marais), Minnesota, and Chicago, Illinois. Carlson’s practice in-cludes multimedia works, works on paper, and public art. Her research focuses on Indigenous Futurism(s) and the entanglement of cultural nar-ratives and institutions. Recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at the MCA Chicago, the University of Michigan Museum of Art, participation in Prospect.6 New Orleans, the Front Triennial, and the Toronto Biennial. Her work is in collections including the British Museum, the Walker Art Museum, The Whitney Museum, and the National Gallery of Canada. Carl-son recently completed a residency at the Joan Mitchell Center and she was a 2022 United States Artists Fellow and 2024 Creative Capital Award recipient. She is a writer and has contributed to books such as Indigenous Futurisms (IAIA Museum of Contemporary Indian Arts, 2020) and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2023), as well as in online publications such as e-flux Architecture. She is co-founder of the Center for Native Futures in Chicago.
Tanya Lukin Linklater makes videos, sculptures, and dances in museums. Sensation, embodied inquiry, scores, rehearsal, and being in relation to ancestral belongings, communities, and weather structure her work. Her recent exhibitions include Aichi Triennale, Japan; Gwangju Biennale, South Korea; New Museum Triennial, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Toronto Biennial of Art. Her solo exhibition, Inner blades of grass (soft) (cured) (bruised by weather), including works from the last ten years and new commissions, was presented by the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, in 2024. Her Sugpiaq homelands are in the Kodiak archipelago of Alaska.
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