Cannupa Hanska Luger

Cannupa Hanska Luger (born 1979) is a New Mexico-based interdisciplinary artist whose community-oriented artworks address environmental justice and gender violence issues.

[1] Luger is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation and is of Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota, Austrian, and Norwegian heritage.

[2][3] Cannupa Hanska Luger was born and raised in Fort Yates, North Dakota, on the Standing Rock Reservation.

[4] His parents are Kathy "Elk Woman" Whitman (Fort Berthold Reservation) and Robert "Bruz" Luger.

[16] Luger is well known for his Mirror Shield Project deployed at the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock in 2016.

[20] In 2020, his work was presented in the Larger than Memory: Contemporary Art from Indigenous North America, exhibition at the Heard Museum.

[30] In 2019 Luger was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, was a 2019 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Honoree, and in 2020, he received a Creative Capital Award,[10] an artist fellowship from the Craft Research Fund,[31] and A Blade of Grass Foundation fellowship for socially engaged art.