〰️ "... a stunning mix of art styles at play throughout the book" - JAJ review by Comics Beat

〰️ "Yahgulanaas’s vivid art is testament not merely to resilience but to vitality and contemporaneity" - Globe and Mail

〰️ "The art demonstrates an adaptive insistence on creativity and beauty, even as it acknowledges disruptions in tradition" - The Seattle Times

〰️ "... a stunning mix of art styles at play throughout the book" - JAJ review by Comics Beat 〰️ "Yahgulanaas’s vivid art is testament not merely to resilience but to vitality and contemporaneity" - Globe and Mail 〰️ "The art demonstrates an adaptive insistence on creativity and beauty, even as it acknowledges disruptions in tradition" - The Seattle Times

YAHGULANAAS

Geronimo paints Picasso

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.

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS

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Copper from the Hood at the British Museum
Nov 1
The British Museum
Copper from the Hood at the British Museum
The British Museum

On view now at the British Museum.

The British Museum
DAM Dancing Crane
Dec 25
Denver Art Museum
DAM Dancing Crane
Denver Art Museum

On view now in the Denver Art Museum.

Denver Art Museum
Diaries After a Flood
Sep 8
Museum of Contemporary Art
Diaries After a Flood
Museum of Contemporary Art

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.”

Museum of Contemporary Art
Seriously? Comedy and Satire in Canadian Art 1970s-Now
Jan 25
Griffin Art Projects
Seriously? Comedy and Satire in Canadian Art 1970s-Now
Griffin Art Projects

Group exhibition in North Vancouver includes a Copper from the Hood, “Solo.”

Griffin Art Projects

STUDIO UPDATES

STUDIO UPDATES

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Supporting Victoria Hand Project Work in Ukraine

The Victoria Hand Project (VHP) is a non-profit organization that aims to improve access to prosthetic care worldwide.

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Departing from Meta Platforms

This is an announcement that MNY will soon be departing from all Meta platforms (Instagram and Facebook). New studio images will be posted to mnystudio.bsky.social, and important news and updates can be found on the mny.ca website. Stay tuned for more exciting updates!

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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.

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PRESS RELEASES

PRESS RELEASES

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Comics Beat
Graphic Novel Review: JAJ – A HAIDA MANGA by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
Comics Beat

The level of interaction and incredible achievement really gives insight into what a comic book can be.

Comics Beat
Canadian Interiors
MOCA’s latest exhibition combines North Pacific Indigenous narratives and Japanese cartooning
Canadian Interiors

The exhibition features works by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas that pose questions about culture, identity, and histories.

Canadian Interiors
The Canadian Press
A tale of history and humanization unfold in colourful ‘Haida Manga'
The Canadian Press

On a ship with torn sails, tossed by churning waters, the first of many Europeans needing rescue arrives along the coast of what is now British Columbia, before a Haida canoe brings an outstretched paddle and the warm light of salvation.

The Canadian Press
The Tyee
With Haida Manga, a Study in Compassion
The Tyee

A new graphic novel by artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas explores BC’s founding years with generosity and soul.

The Tyee
CBC
What drives visual artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas to tell stories through comics?
CBC

Artist's latest work, JAJ, follows historical figures including Norwegian explorer Johan Adrian Jacobsen

CBC