Sunkosi Galay-Tamang (Suna) is an artist, arts educator, and new mum of mixed Indigenous and settler ancestries living on Turtle Island. On her mother’s side, she is Tamang clan from the foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal. On her father’s side, she is Dene Métis from Buffalo Narrows, Saskatchewan (Dënesųłinë́, Scottish and French), with Jewish-Ukrainian and German-speaking Dutch bloodlines. She lives as an uninvited guest in the Coast Salish homelands of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səl̓ílwətaʔ, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations, where she was born.
Suna’s land-based practice centres around investigating the capacity of art to function as ceremony and the body as pedagogy, within the context of displacement from one’s traditional homelands. She works through the lenses of clown, hide tanning, birthwork, and astrology as tools towards reclamation of ancestral, physiological and communal wisdom.
