Learning, Unlearning, Relearning: Meditating on America’s Past and Present

Galanin holds a BFA from London Guildhall University in Jewelry Design, an MFA in Indigenous Visual Arts from Massey University in New Zealand, and has apprenticed with master carvers and jewelers in his community of Sitka, Alaska. His work has been exhibited widely, including in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Native American Pavilion during the 2017 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; 2019 Honolulu Biennial, Honolulu, Hawaii; Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska; and the Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, among many others. As part of the group exhibition, Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, Galanin’s work traveled to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, and Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), Santa Fe, NM. His work is included in numerous public and private collections including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY; Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Denver Art Museum, CO; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; Portland Art Museum, OR; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, among others. Galanin lives and works with his family on Tlingit Aani, Sitka, Alaska. He is represented by Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY and his music has been released by Sub Pop Records, Seattle, WA, under the name Ya Tseen.