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. READ MORE...

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas has a way with a story. His work leaps off the page, smacks you in the face, and then explodes linear narratives like an atomic bomb.

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"The challenge was to tell someone else's story and to do it accurately as opposed to telling my family story, as is with earlier books. There's a comfort in that because you can claim a certain degree of authority, but when we step out to tell someone else's story, we have to tread carefully." READ MORE...

In Berlin, the work of celebrated artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is at the centre of the newly opened Humboldt Forum. READ MORE...

“I admire the aerodynamic beauty and engineering and aesthetic that goes into building cars,” says Nicoll Yahgulanaas Yahgulanaas, whose Madrona Gallery show opens Nov. 5. “They are remarkable shapes.” READ MORE...

Levell holds Yahgulanaas up as a modern artist who draws on his Indigenous heritage and various other influences. This reality—evident in the artist’s work itself—effectively frees Yahgulanaas from the settler-modern/Indigenous-traditional binary that frequently haunts Indigenous artists and their creations. Levell’s skill as a writer shines in her vivid descriptions and analysis of art works included and not included as illustrations. Her academic knowledge and experience as a curator is also on full display in the relationships she traces between Yahgulanaas and other contemporary artists. READ MORE...

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas is selling prints of one of his works that was to be shown in Kyiv later this year. All money raised will be donated to help victims of the Russian invasion. READ MORE...

A Haida artist is using his skills to raise money for the people of Ukraine after an art show he had planned in the capital city of Kyiv was derailed by the war against Russia. READ MORE...

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas has personal ties to victims of the war. ‘Kyiv Child’ is his gift to raise relief funds. READ MORE...

The creator of the ingenious hybrid known as Haida manga, which blends topical Asian comic book illustration with traditional storytelling and design, is on the cutting edge of First Nations’ response to the global intercultural dialogue now taking place in many countries. READ MORE...

Yahgulanaas stops by CBC's The Next Chapter to take its version of the Proust Questionnaire. READ MORE...

Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas' new commission for the Seattle Art Museum, Carpe Fin, a 6-by-19-foot watercolor mural, condenses a Haida folktale into one immense color-drenched panel. READ MORE...

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Artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas created this illustration for our autumn 2019 issue. READ MORE...

Yahgulanaas takes his experimentation and genre mixing to a new level, using curved formlines as outlines for his panels. This means that, according to the conventions of Pacific Northwest coastal art, the negative spaces created by the figurative black lines become positive spaces where the action takes place and the characters move. READ MORE...

Yahgulanaas takes the CBC Books Magic 8 Q&A, and answers eight questions from eight writers READ MORE...

The luscious watercolor illustrations in War of the Blink, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas's new graphic novel, convey a story that was told by the Haida people "long before there was a Canada or a United States." Using his signature Haida manga style, a fusion of Indigenous visual traditions from the Pacific Northwest and the graphic format of Japanese comics, Yahgulanaas translates oral history into a fluid, nonlinear reading experience, highlighting themes that feel surprisingly relevant to today's geopolitical standoffs. READ MORE...

An artist from Haida Gwaii is getting high-profile international attention with works on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the British Museum in London. While being featured in those institutions is a major accomplishment for any artist, Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas says it signifies that First Nations art is increasingly entering the mainstream art world. READ MORE...

A work by a Canadian Haida artist has been installed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in a location where contemporary art borders Indigenous art, and the curator who orchestrated its installation is thrilled about it. Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas's Yelthadaas, recently acquired by the Met, hangs in Gallery 399, at the intersection of two worlds. READ MORE...

Visitors to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art can now expect to spot a work by B.C.'s own Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas in Gallery 399. The museum announced today that the Haida artist's piece "Yelthadaas" is on display in the museum's permanent collection.
Yelthadaas is a part of Yahgulanaas's series titled "Coppers from the Hood," named in honour of the shield-like coppers exchanged by Haida chiefs during traditional potlatches. In a press release from the artist, the curator of the museum said he believes Yahgulanaas is the only living Canadian indigenous artist with work currently on display. READ MORE...