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Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas was born in in Prince Rupert and grew up on Haida Gwaii. A descendant of iconic artists Isabella Edenshaw, Charles Edenshaw and Delores Churchill, Yahgulanaas' early training was under the exceptional creators and master carvers of Haida Gwaii. His work is collected internationally, including The British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum and Vancouver Art Gallery. Large sculptural works by Yahgulanaas are part of the public art collection of the Vancouver International Airport, City of Vancouver, City of Kamloops and University of British Columbia. His publications include national bestsellers Flight of the Hummingbird, RED: a Haida Manga and the upcoming War of the Blink.
Yahgulanaas' artwork transcends traditional notions of Northwest Coast art. He incorporates his background in traditional Haida art with Asian influences such as Chinese brushwork and Japanese manga comics to create what he calls 'Haida Manga'. A piece from Yahgulanaas' 'Coppers from the Hood' series was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Press:
〰️ " a stunning mix of art styles at play throughout the book" - JAJ review by Comics Beat
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is a contemporary artist whose wide-ranging artistic practice explores themes of identity, environmentalism and the human condition. Influenced by iconography, both from his Haida culture and contemporary Asian visual culture, he has created an artistic practice that crosses diverse cultures, generations, and disciplines in search of accessibility and engagement as a counterpoint to stratification and isolation. Institutional collections include the British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum and Vancouver Art Gallery.
Diaries After a Flood
Suspended and spinning in the Price Family Community Gallery and the Lindy Green Forum are newly commissioned works by Vancouver-based artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, who created and popularized the graphic style of Haida manga. The style incorporates a mixture of North Pacific Indigenous narratives, frame lines, and Japanese cartooning. Posing timely and necessary questions about culture, identity, and histories past and present, the works in this exhibition avoid simple categorization and instead, to quote Yahgulanaas, take as their subject “the spaces in between.”
MOCA Special Opening
Please join us in Toronto this weekend for a very special opening and presentation of new works at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas&#; wide-ranging artistic practice explores themes of identity, environmentalism and the human condition. Influenced by both the tradition of Haida iconography and contemporary Asian visual culture, he has created an artistic practice that crosses diverse cultures, generations, and disciplines. “Haida Manga” is the innovative combination of Haida formline design and Japanese comics (manga) to create a pan-Pacific narrative art form. He made his American debut in , showing his monumental work RED: A Haida Manga at the Seattle Art Museum as part of their exhibition Indigenous Beauty, with a concomitant solo exhibition at Stonington Gallery. He created lectures and programming on Haida Manga at the American Museum of Natural History in New York the same year. In July he was an invited guest at the first Seattle Art Fair, and his work was seen across the cityon Art Fair billboards.
Yahgulanaas uses art to communicate a world view that, while particular to Haida Gwaii, his ancestral North Pacific archipelago, is also relevant to a contemporary and internationally-engaged audience. Working in multiple forms including painting, sculpture and illustrated publications, his artistic practice is acclaimed for its vitality and originality.
Raised in Delkatla, Haida Gwaii, Yahgulanaas began working as an artist after many decades in the leadership of the Haida Nation&#;s successful campaign to protect its people&#;s indigenous culture and environment. In the past decade, Yahgulanaas&#; work has been presented in museums across Canada and all over the world, including at international exhibitions in Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Europe. His art works are in numerous public and private collections including the British Museum (London, England), the Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver, Canada), the Glenbow Museum (Calgary, Canada) and the Museum of Anthropology (Vancouver, Canada). His large sculptural works are part of the public art collection o .