Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun Lets'lo:tseltun in conversation with Marc Johnson on the unceded and ancestral coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musque...

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, graduated from the Emily Carr School of Art and Design in 1983 with an honours degree in painting. Yuxweluptun's strategy is to document and promote change in contemporary Indigenous history in large-scale paintings (from 54.2 x 34.7cm to 233.7 x 200.7cm), using Coast Salish cosmology, Northwest Coast formal design elements, and the Western landscape tradition. His painted works explore political, environmental, and cultural issues. His personal and socio-political experiences enhance this practice of documentation. Yuxweluptun's work has been included in numerous international group and solo exhibitions, such as INDIGENA: Contemporary Native Perspectives in 1992. He was the recipient of the Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts (VIVA) award in 1998.

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Unceded TerritoriesMay 10 – October 16, 2016Vancouver artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, of Coast Salish and Okanagan descent, is s...

Beyond Unceded Territories dives deeply into the perspective of artist and activist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun. Yuxweluptun, one of Canada's most outspoken an...

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun has had his paintings shown in major galleries and collections across the world including the National Gallery of Canada. A graduat...

"I'm a nontraditionalist being a traditionalist creating nontraditional art, which means that I'm just making art."

One of a kind, this artist has too many bad colonial days and he WILL kill the Indian Act. My Friend Lolly If there is an artist out there who really has no fear of reprisal, t’is Lawrence Yuxweluptun Paul. Ask him why he paints and what inspires him, he tells you about the MMIWG ... Read more

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun: Time Immemorial (You’re Just Mad Because We Got Here First) Curated by Victor Wang  The High Commission of Canada in the United...

With over fifty drawings extending over three decades, this exhibition is the first to survey Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s works on paper.

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun (b. 1957, Canada) Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun is one of the most prominent and outspoken contemporary First Nations artists working today and is projected to be one of the most relevant of our time. He is of Coast Salish and Okanagan descent. Yuxweluptun is Salish for “man of many masks,” a name given