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Cannupa Hanska Luger

Cannupa Hanska Luger

Born on the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, Cannupa Hanska Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation. Through monumental installations, Luger interweaves performance and political action to communicate stories about 21st-century Indigeneity. Luger has received numerous awards such as the United States Artists Fellowship, Creative Capital Fellowship, and the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Fellowship, and has been the subject of solo exhibitions at venues such as Princeton University Art Museum, Denver Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Gardiner Museum, and the Museum of Arts and Design.