Born in Stavanger in 1988 and now based in Copenhagen, Linda Lamignan studied at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Through performance, video, sound, and sculptural installations, Lamignan explores what it means to move between multiple cultural and geographic realities shaped by diasporic experience, inherited memory, and the entangled legacies of place.
Linda Lamignan is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans video, sculpture, performance, sound, and collaborative practices. Grounded in storytelling and transformation, their practice draws from personal and ancestral memory, animist philosophies, diasporic experience, and the cultural entanglements between West Africa and Scandinavia. Their work is deeply connected to the landscapes their ancestors belonged to, where rivers, islands, and oil fields shape both history and identity. Through a deeply intuitive relationship to materials, technologies, and kinship, Lamignan opens portals between the ancestral and the digital, the spiritual and the industrial.
Lamignan often works with petroleum wax, textiles, aluminum, and found media, materials charged with geological and political weight. These substances become vessels through which stories of land, identity, and extraction are held and transformed. Rooted in an animist worldview where everything is alive and interconnected, Lamignan approaches art-making as a process of translation between generations, across geographies, and among human and non-human beings. Oral histories shared by family members ripple across video works, sonic compositions, and sculptural forms, establishing a living archive where memory is both fluid and collective.
Working closely with friends and family, Lamignan builds artworks through processes of exchange and co-creation, fostering the wisdom and emotion carried by a shared diasporic experience. Their practice is not bound by medium or singular authorship but operates through kinship and shared imagination. In recent years, Lamignan has incorporated open-source technologies and digital modeling, aligning these tools with communal modes of storytelling, remix, and inheritance. Like stories passed down across time and place, Lamignan’s works carry and reshape meaning, becoming maps of survival, love, and resistance.
Their practice is often structured through ongoing chapters or bodies of work titled after books, poems, or lyrics. Sources of literary influence such as Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera, Chenjerai Hove’s Blind Moon, and David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous echo throughout Lamignan’s evolving practice.
Lamignan holds an MFA from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and a BFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Their work has been exhibited at institutions including GL STRAND in Copenhagen, Buffalo AKG Art Museum in New York, Post Territory Ujeongguk in Seoul, Lunds Konsthall in Sweden, and Rogaland Kunstsenter in Stavanger. In 2024, Lamignan will also be featured in Bedrock at Liverpool Biennial in the UK. In 2023, they were awarded the prestigious DNB Foundation grant, and their work continues to receive international recognition for its poetic force and political resonance.