25 Facts About Nicholas Galanin

Nicholas Galanin is a Sitka Tribe of Alaska multi-disciplinary artist and musician of Tlingit and Unangax descent.

Nicholas Galanin is the grandchild of master carver George Benson.

At the age of eighteen, Galanin worked a desk job at the Sitka National Historical Park.

Nicholas Galanin recalls this as his last job that was non-creative.

In 2008, Nicholas Galanin's work was featured in "Beat Nation: Art, Hip Hop and Aboriginal Culture" exhibition at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery.

Nicholas Galanin's entry, entitled Tsu Heidei Shugaxtutaan, is a two-part looping video of dance and music that mixes elements of traditional Tlingit and hip hop.

Nicholas Galanin's work is intended as a "commentary on cultural appropriation in popular media", which is largely dominated by white actors and directors.

In 2013, Nicholas Galanin's artwork was featured at the Alaska State Museum.

In 2015, Nicholas Galanin designed a logo for Tribal Sports, a brand created by the Sitka Tribe of Alaska and Baden Sports of Seattle.

Nicholas Galanin was the lead carver of a totem pole that was erected in Savikko Park on Douglas Island.

The 12,000 square-foot exhibition, displaying fifteen years of Nicholas Galanin's works, was the largest contemporary arts exhibition to be shown at the Heard Museum in over a decade.

The exhibition showed over fifty works by Nicholas Galanin, including many of his well-known pieces such as We Dreamt Deaf, White Noise American Prayer Rug, and Things Are Looking Native, Native's Looking Whiter.

Nicholas Galanin collaborated with his brother, Jerrod Galanin, on A Supple Plunder.

At the opening, Nicholas Galanin felt overwhelmed by questions from the non-Indigenous docents.

In 2019, Nicholas Galanin's work was displayed at the Honolulu Biennial.

Nicholas Galanin commented on the piece saying, "By creating a hole large enough to bury the statue, the work's excavation suggests the burial of the Cook monument itself, along with the burial of destructive governance and treatment of Indigenous land, Indigenous people and Indigenous knowledge".

Nicholas Galanin was briefly interviewed by Casey Grove of Alaska Public Media concerning the importance of art and its inspiration.

Nicholas Galanin began his solo project under the stage name Silver Jackson, and is part of a collective called The Black Constellation.

Nicholas Galanin started his own record label and a music festival called Home Skillet Festival.

Nicholas Galanin released his first extended play, Moves Like Music in 2007.

Nicholas Galanin released his debut album, which was self-titled, in 2008.

In 2017, Nicholas Galanin formed a band with Otis Calvin III and Zak Dylan Wass called Indian Agent.

Nicholas Galanin spoke at the University of North Dakota Writers Conference.

In 2019, Nicholas Galanin was one of the seventy-five artists that were selected to present work in the Seventy-Ninth Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial.

In September 2019, Nicholas Galanin spoke of his intention to withdraw from the exhibition and his ultimate decision to participate.