Dylan McLaughlin is a Diné transdisciplinary artist whose work synthesizes noise, image, performance and sculpture citing Diné cosmologies and ecologies of extraction. He looks to familial narratives and the entangles of colonialism that inform the technologies that perpetuate extraction. His work makes felt what can be otherwise left in abstraction. His recent sound and light sculpture installations evoke the exploitation, extraction, and weaponization of Indigenous communities and technologies.

He has held residencies at Slow Research Lab and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, using these opportunities to further investigate ecological relationships and cultural memory. His work has been exhibited in venues such as SITE SANTA FE, Smack-Mellon, and the Denver Art Museum, and has been featured in publications including An Indigenous Present, Speaking With Light, and Museum of Capitalism. McLaughlin earned a BFA in New Media Art from the Institute of American Indian Arts, an MFA in Art & Ecology from the University of New Mexico, and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Expanding Approaches to American Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Currently, he serves as an instructor in the Studio Arts MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.