Aichi Triennale

Cannupa Hanska Luger is a New Mexico based multidisciplinary artist creating monumental installations, sculpture and performance to communicate urgent stories of 21st Century Indigeneity. Incorporating ceramics, steel, fiber, video and repurposed materials, Luger activates speculative fiction, engages in land-based actions of repair and practices empathetic response through social collaboration. Born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of Fort Berthold and is Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara and Lakota. Luger combines critical cultural analysis with dedication and respect for the diverse materials, environments, and communities he engages. His bold visual storytelling presents new ways of seeing our collective humanity while foregrounding an Indigenous worldview.

Selected exhibitions

2024

Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, USA)

2023

The Land That Carries Our Ancestors, National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C., USA)

2022

Water Memories, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)

2019

Solo exhibitions, Every One, Gardiner Museum (Toronto, Canada)

2016

Solo exhibitions, Every Line is a Song. Each Shape is a Story, National Center for Civil and Human Rights (Atlanta, USA)