Solo Exhibition

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.