Gallery Representation
Douglas Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Canada
Trepanier Baer Gallery, Calgary, Canada
Stonington Gallery, Seattle, USA
Selected Grants and Awards
2015 American Museum of Natural History, first ever Artist in residence, New York
2015 BC Arts Council
2012 Audain Professor of Contemporary Art Practice of the Pacific Northwest, University of Victoria
2009 Winner of Book of the Year 2009, 13th Annual Independent Publishers, USA
2006 Visual Arts Major Award, Canada Council for the Arts, Canada
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 Musing of Manga in the Museum, Haida Gwaii
2014 Solo 4, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2013 Emily Carr and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Masters Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2012 Craft, Audain Gallery, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada
2011 Old Growth, grunt gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2011 RED, a Haida Manga, Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Canada
2010 RED Undone, Haida Gwaii Museum at Qay'llnagaay, Haida Gwaii, Canada
2009 Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and Edward Burtynsky, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada
2007 Meddling in the Museum, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 Toronto Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
2015 Tokyo Design Week, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Seattle Simplified, Seattle, USA
2015 Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, USA
2015 Papier 14, Montreal, Canada
2015 Indigenous Beauty, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
2014 Live Auction, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2012 Bundeskuntall, Art & Exhibit Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, Germany
2012 Treasures of the Worlds Cultures, Manarat al Saadiyat Gallery, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
2012 Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Australia
2012 Beat Nation, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2011 Shore, Forest and Beyond, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2011 Haida Manga Reading Room, Gendai Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2010 Visions of British Columbia: A Landscape Manual, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2010 Ethnographic Terminalia 2010, New Orleans, USA
2009 BC Scene, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada
2009 Challenging Traditions, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Canada
2009 Challenging Traditions, Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland
2005 Exhibition of Paintings, Expo 2005, 7th World Comic Artists Conference, Bucheon, Korea
2005 Live Painting Exhibit, Expo 2005 Canadian Pavilion, Nagoya, Japan
2004 Red White 100% Design, Canada House, London, England
2003 The Last Voyage of the Black Ship, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada
2003 No Apologies Necessary, Tokyo Design Week (top 10 ranking), Tokyo, Japan
2002 Raw Potential, Water Street, Vancouver, Canada
Selected Public Commissions
2015 Sei, a public art sculpture, Vancouver International Airport Authority, Vancouver, Canada
2014 Rivers, a public art sculpture, City of Kamloops, Kamloops, Canada
2011 Abundance Fenced, a public art sculpture, City of Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada
2011 Coppers from the Hood, The British Museum, London, England
2009 Take Off, a public art sculpture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2009 Continuum, Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art, Vancouver, Canada
2008 RE ME MB ER, Geist Magazine, Vancouver Canada
2007 Meddling in the Museum, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada
Selected Public Collections
City of Seattle, Seattle, USA
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada
City of Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Museum of Anthropology, University of BC Vancouver, Canada
Haida Gwaii Museum at Qay'llnagaay, Haida Gwaii, Canada
Kawasaki City Manga Museum, Kawasaki, Japan
Luke Lindoe Library at the Alberta College of Art and Design Calgary, Canada
Selected Publications and Animated Short Films
2014 RED: a Haida Manga, Douglas and McIntyre
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Launched at the American Museum of Natural History
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Nominated for BC Booksellers' Choice Award, Canada
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Nominated for the Doug Wright Award for Best Book, Canada
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Nominated for the Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Cartoonist, Canada
2013 RED: a Haida Manga, a short film by MNY
2012 Old Growth, Read Leaf
2010 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 and McIntyre
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Winner of Book of the Year 2009, 13th Annual Independent Publishers, USA
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Nominated for a BC Booksellers' Choice Award, BC, Canada
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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 Qay'llnagaay
Selected Speaking Engagements
2015 TEDx Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada: Speaker
2015 Indigenous Terra Madre, Shillong, India, awarded
2015 Seattle Art Fair, Seattle, USA: Panel member
2015 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA: Artist Talk on RED: A Haida Manga
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 Bibliography of Critical Reviews
2015 Seriality of Texts for Young People, The Compulsion to Repeat, Perry Nodelman (pp. 189 - 205)
2013 Coppers From the Hood: Haida Manga Interventions and Performative Acts' Museum Anthropology. (ms. page length: 31.)
2013 'Site-specificity and Dislocation: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and his Haida Manga Meddling.' Journal of Material Culture, 18(1)
2011 'Dislocations: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas and his Haida Manga Interventions.' Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals (Special issue: The Task of the Curator), 7(4): pp. 427 - 429
2009 Thom, Ian, Challenging Traditions. Vancouver, Douglas and McIntyre, pg. 2 & 170
2008 Haida Cosmic, Meet, France. Issue #12, pp. 309 - 323
2008 Yahgulanaas, Michael Nicoll. RE ME MB ER, Geist magazine, Issue 70, pp. 49 - 56
2006 Augaitis, Daina (Ed). Raven Travelling. Douglas and McIntyre, Vancouver; contributor pg.155-165, illus. pp. 166 - 167
2006 Geist magazine, Issue 55, pp. 26 - 27
2005 Bucheon, Korea, International Comics Festival, (catalogue)
Selected Press
2015 "A standout is 'Red' by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, a mural comprised of individual watercolors done in a powerful, graphic blend of Haida style and Japanese manga." Indigenous Beauty: a blockbuster Native American Show at SAM, Seattle Times
2011 Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas: British Museum Acquires Copper from the Hood, Vancouver Sun
2008 Stephen Quinn and Michael Nicolll Yahgulanaas, The Early Edition, CBC