Museum of Contemporary Circumpolar Art (MCCA)

Salinder was born in 1981 in Salekhard, located on the edge of the Arctic circle in the Yamalo-Nenets region of northwest Siberia. Raised by his mother, Larisa Nikolaevna Salinder, he takes pride in being Nenets. His ancestors are known for their ability to excel in harsh conditions: hunting, herding of reindeer, and mastering the knife and axe to create narti (sleds) and tinzyan (lassos). “If a Nenets man completed any kind of work, he tried to make it not just good quality, but also beautiful,” Salinder said.