Nicholas Galanin

Nicholas Galanin is a Sitka, Alaska based artist whose work offers perspectives rooted in a connection to land through an internationally broad engagement with contemporary culture. He engages past, present and future through two- and three-dimensional works and time-based media, exposing intentionally obscured collective memory and barriers to the acquisition of knowledge. Galanin apprenticed with master carvers and jewelers, earned a BFA at London Guildhall University in Jewelry Design and an MFA in Indigenous Visual Arts and Massey University in New Zealand. His work has shown internationally including at Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn; Whitney Museum, Phoenix; Anchorage Museum, Alaska; Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver; Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Sante Fe; and Northern Norway Art Museum, Tromsø, among others. He is a member of the Winter Count and Black Constellation collectives.