Nicholas Galanin (Yéil Ya Tseen) is a Tlingit and Unangax̂ artist and musician from Sitka, Alaska. As stated in his artist's bio, his "work is rooted in his perspective as an Indigenous man connected to the land and culture he belongs to. His work is embedded with incisive observation and critical thinking to advocate social and environmental justice. Galanin's work expands and refocuses the intersections of culture, centering Indigeneity through concept, form, image, and sound. His works are vessels for knowledge, culture and technology - inherently political, generous, unflinching, insistent and poetic."
For more information about Nicholas Galanin, please see the following:
Galanin, Nicholas. Unshadowed Land, 2021. Soil and plant matter. Davidson College.
Never Forget by 
Shapeshifting: Transformations in Native American Art by 
New Native Art Criticism: Manifestations by Nicholas Galanin's 'Unshadowed Land" Begins to Take Shape video highlighting the process of creating the work at Davidson College in 2022.
Van Every/Smith Galleries | In Conversation with Nicholas Galanin interview on his exhibition and sculpture project at Davidson College Art Galleries in 2021.
Artist Nicholas Galanin Segment, STORYTELLERS Episode video with the artist from Craft in America in 2020 (with more related videos).
Public Art Fund Talks: Nicholas Galanin on his work, In every language there is Land / En cada lengua hay una Tierra, at the Brooklyn Bridge Park in NY from Public Art Fund in 2023.
Never Forget - Nicholas Galanin talk with the artist on his work and its reflections on monuments and land ownership, from Richard Mille in 2021.
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