In March, we had a successful #artisttalk at the Academy of Fine Arts of #Bologna - a big thank you to Mattia Arioli for hosting me, and thank you to the Department of Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures – LILEC of the University of Bologna that organized the talk!
#ArtLecture #VisualArt
Posts by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas
This new series involves looking at carefully, executed watercolors, establishing a new pallet for acrylic on canvas. Many appreciations to Malaspina Printmakers for allowing me to test an exhibit in Vancouver last winter. Also appreciations to Rosa and Mike for helping me explore studio techniques.
One of the panels from BONE BOX (2007), an interactive and dynamic art installation at the Museum of Anthropology
@moa_ubc
#bonebox #artinstallation #movement #panels #frameline #yahgulanaas #contemporary art #onepiece
A new kind of surrealism
#HAGU #worksonpaper #yahgulanaas
Far from the centres of Western art and seemingly safe from its numerous champions are visions and adventures ….
#Watercolour #WatercolorPainting #WorkOnPaper #PaintingOnPaper #ContemporaryPainting #Orca #KillerWhale #BlueTones #Framework #VisualStructure #ContemporaryArt #ArtCollectors #Art
That was so long ago when a Sharpie was my favored tool. I swapped out for a brush pen. The bristles provided much better spring and flow in the line.
Action shot, drawing one of the 'Shamanic Doodles' in the first 100 copies of Tale of 2 Shamans
#MichaelNicollYahgulanaas #HaidaManga #TaleOfTwoShamans #ArtistDoodle #SignedCopy #LimitedEditionBooks #FirstEditions #BookArt #DrawingProcess #ArtistAtWork #ArtBook #SpecialEdition #BehindTheScenes
Oops missed the live stream…
Just saw your post. 13
Hrs too late.
CRAFT, art installation at the Bill Reid Gallery, reminiscent of a time when fisher folk read the ocean
#craft #billreidgallery #installation #artinstallation #canoe #oars #yahgulanaas #MNY #tbt
Lesser Wave Off Kanagawa (2023)
#watercolour #ink #worksonpaper #painting #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #2023 #michaelnicollyahgulanaas #archives #colourful #art #artist #yahgulanaas
MNY discussing CLAN HAT during the @vanartgallery gallery opening in November 2025
Installation view of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Clan Hat, 2025, in We who have known tides: Indigenous Art from the Collection, exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, November 6, 2025 to April 6, 2026, Photo: VAG
Detail from CARPE FIN: A Haida Manga - the mural is in the permanent collection of the Seattle Art Museum
#YAHGULANAAS #mny #haidamanga #carpefin #seattleartmuseum #detail #closeup #workonpaper #contemporaryart #characters #graphicillustration #publication #acquisition
AFRICA RED, watercolour and ink on paper
#yahgulanaas previously exhibit at the #outsiderartfair #contemporaryart #worksonpaper #watercolour #ink #twodimensional #MNY #bcart
Ink on Kozo Washi
@salgoodsam.bsky.social I didn’t rank my vote feeling that it might dilute the intent of my affection. It seems that we shared a political choice.
Print and sign that image !
The Raven has special meaning
#yahgulanaas
What do you uphold, and who holds you up?
#graphic #metaphor #yahgulanaas #fromthearchives #workonpaper #inkandpigment
Watercolour and Ink, 2 Sisters and a Child
#fromthearchives #yahgulanaas #artiststudio #watercolour #ink #pages #2018
Wordless, Words on the Water Festival, 30 1/2”H x 22 3/4” W
#contemporaryart #yahgulanaas #mny #outsiderartfair #popping #colour #contrast
Looking through the pages of a sketchbook from 2013, travelling from BC to Norway
#sketches #watercolour #watercolor #pleinair #ontheferry #norway #artistabroad #inthearchives #yahgulanaas #drawing #sketching #penandink
A well-worn studio apron, which has seen a lot of painting days...
#yahgulanaas #artiststudio #painting #paintersofinstagram #paintingprocess #artistprocess #behindthecanvas #paintstains #studiowork #contemporarypainting #figurativepainting #painterlife #artistatwork #creativeprocess #artpractice
One of my Coppers from the Hood, currently in the permanent collection and on display at the British Museum!
#coppersfromthehood #britishmuseum #london #sculptural #yahgulanaas #mounted #carhood #repurposed #contemporaryart
Impressive talent.
I’ve heard that the Audain will frame the painting, maybe they have already?
This is exciting because Framers and curators are professionals and simply watching them is like taking a master class.
Yours truly standing next to GWAA, part of the #DaalkaatliiDiaries series, now in the permanent collection of the @audainartmuseum
#Installation shot of the #acrylic painting at the museum
#michaelnicollyahgulanaas #audain #artmuseum #display #colourful #painting #contemporaryart #art
Something a little different. MOULDY FOREHEAD, image cropped, from the archives
#michaelnicollyahgulanaas #MNY #drawing #penonpaper #ink #sketch #sketching #draw #contemporaryart #circular #movement
TROUGH from the Daalkaatlii Diaries series, acrylic on canvas, 150cm x 100cm
@galleryjones #cropped #michaelnicollyahgulanaas #MNY #acrylic #painting #paintingoncanvas #contemporaryart #daalkaatliidiaries #haida #colour #series #art #artist #available
How the story of JAJ begins...
#pageone #haidamanga @douglasmcintyre2013 #michaelnicollyahgulanaas #mny #mnystudio #publication #book #mural #canadianpublisher #canadapublishing #graphicart #graphicnovel #illustration #multimedia #canadagraphicart #art #drawing