Art Toronto is celebrating its 25th edition in 2024. See Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’ work at Art Toronto 2024, with Gallery Jones.

Art Toronto is celebrating its 24th edition in 2023. See Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’ work at Art Toronto 2023, with Gallery Jones.

Donald Ellis Gallery is pleased to present a selection of Plains Indian Ledger Art, created by male warrior artists as records of personal and communal histories in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Produced at a time of increasing American imperial expansion on the Great Plains, Ledger Drawings speak to Plains warrior culture and the importance of the horse to it. The gallery is also exhibiting a select group of drawings by highly acclaimed Haida artist and author Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.

Solo Exhibition

Madrona Gallery in Victoria BC is pleased to present a solo exhibition of works by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. 

Past/Present/Future is the culminating exhibition to Thomas J. Watson Library's grant project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, which aimed to assess and expand the library's collection of underrepresented heritage groups, especially Indigenous American, Latinx, Hispanic American, Asian American, and Pacific Islander artists.

For one day and one night, the Humboldt Forum becomes a festival, a conference, a think tank and an open-air club – from the Schlüterhof to the roof terrace. Discover 20,000 exhibits spanning 16,000 square metres with expert support – discursive, playful and many-voiced!

Gallery Jones presents an exhibition of works by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. 

This annual group exhibition highlights new works by gallery artists. This rotating exhibition will change every week throughout December to accommodate the large number of paintings in the show. A number of artists have produced excellent small works to reflect the season.

Madrona Gallery is pleased to present Colours of Summer XI. This annual group exhibition brings together a selection of works from our contemporary and historical collection. The exhibition will include painting, drawing, and sculpture, and will continue to change and evolve throughout the summer as new works are hung, capturing the nature of the season.

Carpe Fin is a major commission for SAM’s collection by Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. This monumental work has been created as a “Haida manga,” a unique approach developed by Yahgulanaas that blends several artistic and cultural traditions, including Haida formline art, Japanese manga, Pop Art, and graphic novels.

The McCord Museum invites everyone to visit the archipelago of Haida Gwaii on Canada’s northwest coast. With more than 100 rare objects—most of them from the Museum’s rich Indigenous Cultures collection—as well as works by contemporary artists, the exhibition immerses visitors in the Haida culture of yesterday and today, as they discover the beauty and priceless treasures of a culture that was almost wiped out in the late 19th century.

Original artworks by Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahguulanaas, chronicling an ancient Haida narrative published in the three main dialects of the Haida Language (and in English).

This exhibition explores the work of internationally celebrated visual artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas. His distinctive artwork twists and blends Haida art with a broad range of contemporary cultural references.

Haida Manga is a contemporary art form that offers a playful way of viewing and engaging with social issues as it seeks participation, dialogue, reflection and action. Influenced by both the tradition of Haida iconography and contemporary Asian visual culture, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas has created an artistic practice celebrated for its vitality and originality by an international audience engaged in issues of ethnicity, identity and relationships.

A full set of the 18 prints making up RED: A Haida Manga, by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (below) was acquired by the City of Seattle for the Seattle Public Utilities 1% for Art program. We are looking forward to seeing where they pop up in the City’s buildings and galleries!

Yahgulanaas’ crowning achievement in the style is RED (above), a huge narrative painting that will be shown at the Seattle Art Museum from February-May 2015. We are proud to debut the first prints made from RED, both in limited and open edition giclee. Our exhibition will feature works on paper, limited edition prints, and works on metal. Of particular note are Yahgulanaas’ two sculptural series Coppers From the Hood and Flappes, which are made from actual car parts.

The immense variety of Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection reflects the diversity of Native cultures. This superb exhibition offers more than great works of art and cultural artifacts—it is an invitation to explore other worlds.

A collaboration between Department of Culture and Tourism and the British Museum, this exhibition included over 250 objects curated around  themes such as leadership, heritage and faith.

Beat Nation reflects a generation of artists who juxtapose urban youth culture with Aboriginal identity in entirely innovative and unexpected ways. Using hip hop and other forms of popular culture, artists create surprising new cultural hybrids—in painting, sculpture, installation, performance and video—that reflect the changing demographics of Aboriginal people today.

The Western Australian Museum and the British Museum have partnered to bring a unique collection of rare artefacts to Australia for the first time, to celebrate the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in October 2011.

The Gendai Gallery presents the Haida Manga Reading Room, an exhibit of the graphic works of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and Joanne Hui, and Comic Jam Studio, with a series of workshops, which launched earlier this month.

Working with curator Liz Park, Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas presents a selection of his published works alongside previously unseen drawings and sketches from his thirty plus years of graphic art production. Yahgulanaas’ work combines traditional Haida form-line with the conventions of Asian graphic novels known as “manga” in a distinct style he calls “Haida Manga”. This exhibition is coordinated with the release of Yahgulanaas’ latest publication, a retrospective collection of his graphic work, produced in conjunction with grunt gallery.

Ethnographic Terminalia New Orleans was an exhibition of over 20 local, national and international artists and anthropologists who work at the intersection of art and anthropology.

The exhibition features contemporary works of art created by some of the most talented First Nations artists living on the Northwest Coast.

New works by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas at the Douglas Udell Gallery on South Granville shows how the artist is playing around with many artistic and cultural conventions of Haida art and re-imaging them for a contemporary world.

Continuum: Vision and Creativity on the Northwest Coast is an exhibition of commissioned artwork from 23 emerging and mid-career artists from as far north as Sitka, Alaska, along the coast of British Columbia from Masset, Bella Bella, Sechelt, Victoria, and Vancouver, and south to Washington State.