T.J. McLachlan is an artist living on the Canadian prairies. After receiving a BFA in Critical and Cultural Practices (Emily Carr University of Art and Design) he is now a graduate student at the University of Alberta where he has received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant to study the role of systemic privilege in meaning-making processes. Embracing an interdisciplinary approach, he looks to find connections among disparate fields such as Linguistics, Critical Race and Whiteness Studies to inform his artistic research. His practice works primarily with objects, embracing a variety of materials and approaches to develop conceptually rooted projects.