Da-ka-xeen Mehner (born 1970)[1] is a Tlingit/Nisga'a American visual artist whose work includes photography and multimedia installations that incorporate video, sculpture and sound.
[3] He was raised in two cultures; by his mother in Anchorage as an "urban Native" and in Fairbanks as a "rural hippie".
[4] His extended family includes several artists, and he was particularly influenced by the photographer Larry McNeil, who is his uncle.
In 1990, he left Alaska and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico to pursue an education at the Institute of American Indian Arts[1] where he received an AA degree in 1992.
[1] Mehner works in photography and installations that combine video, sculpture and sound.