• Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is a contemporary visual artist with works in institutional, public, and private collections.
• Institutional collectors include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, Humboldt Forum in Berlin, and the Seattle Art Museum.
• Large sculptural works are in the public art collections of the City of Vancouver, City of Richmond, City of Kamloops, and University of British Columbia.
• Works are in private collections in Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Korea, Qatar, UK, and USA.
• Author of bestsellers Flight of the Hummingbird and RED: A Haida Manga; subject of Mischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art, and the Seriousness of Play (UBC Press 2021) by Dr. Nicola Levell.
2008 Evergreen Centre Art Gallery, Coquitlam, Canada
2008 What Use Art History? Art Gallery of the South Okanagan, Penticton, Canada
2008 Equinox Gallery Vancouver, Canada
2008 Haida Gwaii Museum at Ḵay Llnagaay, Haida Gwaii, Canada
2006 Raven Travelling, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2005 A World’s Children Picture Book, Seoul, Korea
2005 Exhibition of Paintings, Expo 2005, 7th World Comic Artists Conference, Bucheon, Korea
2005 Live Painting Exhibit, Expo 2005 Canadian Pavilion, Nagoya, Japan
2005 Stripburger, Du Monde Aux Balkans Festival, Milan, Italy
2005 Word on the Street, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, Canada
2004 Red White 100% Design, Canada House, London, UK
2004 7th Annual International Cartoon Book Festival, Bucheon, Korea
2004 Word on the Street, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, Canada
2003 The Last Voyage of the Black Ship, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada
2003 No Apologies Necessary, Tokyo Design Week (top 10 ranking), Prince Takamodo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Word on the Street, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, Canada
2002 Raw Potential, Water Street, Vancouver BC
2002 A Tale of Two Shamans, Dixon Maritime Museum, Masset, Haida Gwaii, Canada
2002 Skung Gwaii Robe, Haida Gwaii Museum at Ḵay Llnagaayy, Haida Gwaii, Canada
Selected Commissions
2022 Fin, Strand and Locarno, Vancouver, Canada
2017 Carpe Fin, Seattle Art Museum, USA
2015 Sei, Vancouver International Airport Authority, Canada
2014 Rivers, City of Kamloops, Canada
2011 Abundance Fenced, City of Vancouver, Canada
2011 Coppers from the Hood, The British Museum, London UK
2009 Take Off, for the 2010 Winter Olympics, University of British Columbia, Canada
2009 Continuum, Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Canada
2008 RE ME MB ER, Geist Magazine, Canada
2007 Meddling in the Museum, Museum of Anthropology, Canada
Selected Public Collections
British Museum (currently on display)
Humboldt Forum (currently on display)
Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts (currently on display)
Canadian Museum of History (currently on display)
Denver Art Museum (currently on display)
City of Vancouver (currently on display)
Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia (currently on display)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Yelthadaas exhibited 2017-19)
Seattle Art Museum
Glenbow Museum
Vancouver Art Gallery
Haida Gwaii Museum at Ḵay Llnagaay
Kawasaki City Manga Museum, Japan
Alberta College of Art and Design Calgary, Canada
Publications and Related Works
2023 JAJ: a Haida Manga, Douglas & McIntyre
2021 “Pay Your Rent,” The Globe and Mail, July 17, 2021
2019 Co-librettist and designer, The Flight of the Hummingbird (produced by Vancouver Opera and Pacific Opera Victoria)
2019 Carpe Fin, Douglas & McIntyre
2018 A Tale of Two Shamans, Locarno Press
2017 The War of the Blink, Locarno Press
2014 RED: a Haida Manga, Douglas & McIntyre
Launched at the American Museum of Natural History
Nominated for BC Booksellers' Choice Award, Canada
Nominated for the Doug Wright Award for Best Book, Canada
Nominated for the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Cartoonist, Canada
2013 RED: a Haida Manga, a short film by Chris Auchter and MNY
2011 Old Growth, ed. Liz Park, Read Leaf and grunt gallery
2010 The Little Hummingbird, Greystone Books
2010 Raven's Call, an animated short film written by Bill Reid and adapted and produced by MNY
2010 The Canoe He Called Loo Taas with Amanda Reid-Stevens, Benjamin Brown Books
2010 Declaration of Interdependence with Tara Cullis and David Suzuki, Greystone Books
2008 Flight of the Hummingbird, A Parable for the Environment, Douglas & McIntyre
Winner of Book of the Year 2009, 13th Annual Independent Publishers, USA
Nominated for a BC Booksellers' Choice Award, BC, Canada
Australian, Spanish, French, and Serbian editions
2008 Flight of the Hummingbird, an animated short film written and produced by MNY
2004 A Lousy Tale, exhibited Canada House, London UK
2002 The Last Voyage of the Black Ship, Western Canada Wilderness Committee
2001 A Tale of Two Shamans, Theytus Books and Haida Gwaii Museum at Ḵay Llnagaay
Selected Speaking Engagements
2021 Keynote Address, BC School Trustees Association, Canada
2021 Keynote Address, National Restorative Justice Conference, Canada
2019 Gaaysiigang, Haida Gwaii, Canada
2019 Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania, USA: Guest lecturer
2019 North Island College, Comox, Canada
2018 Quebec City Panel presentation, Theme: Haida Manga, Quebec City, Canada
2018 Wando International Symposium, Theme: Art and Ecology, Wando, South Korea: Keynote speaker
2016 Keynote Canadian Society of Education through the Arts Annual General Meeting
2015 Second Indigenous Terra Madre conference, Shillong, Meghalaya, India: Guest lecturer
2015 TEDX presentation, The Spaces Between, Vancouver, Canada, invited
2015 Indigenous Terra Madre, Shillong, India, awarded
2015 Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, USA: Panel member
2015 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA: Artist Talk
2014 American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA: Guest lecturer
2014 McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Canada: Guest lecturer
2014 University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada: Guest lecturer
Selected Critical Reviews
Schulz-Bianco, Francesca. “A Haida Artist Reimagines the Relationship Between Museums and Indigenous Art.” Montecristo, December 2022.
Kelp-Stebbins, Katherine. “Border Thinking and Decolonial Mapping in Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s Haida Manga.” How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies, The Ohio State University Press, Columbus OH, 2022.
Correoso Cardenas, José Manuel. “La producción de Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas: el «Haida manga» como conversación entre texto imagen.” Estudios de Literatura Comparada 3, March 2022, p.155-65.
Levell, Nicola, Mischief Making: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Art, and the Seriousness of Play, UBC Press, Vancouver BC, 2021.
Nodelman, Perry. “Michael Yahgulanaas’ Red and the Structures of Sequential Art.” Seriality and Texts for Young People: The Compulsion to Repeat, edited by Reimer, M., N. Ali, D. England, M. Dennis Unrau, and Melanie Dennis Unrau, Springer, 2014, pp. 189-205.
Levell, Nicoll. "Site-specificity and Dislocation: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and his Haida Manga Meddling." Journal of Material Culture, 2013, 18(1)
Ostrowitz, Judith. “Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas: it Looks Like Manga.” Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast, edited by Aaron Glass, A BGC Focus Gallery Publication, 2011, pp. 79-88.
