Artist

Yuxweluptun, Lawrence Paul

Title

Super Clearcut

Technique

etching

Date

1993

Dimensions

90.5cm height x 60cm width

Type

print

Accession Number

1996.28

Owner

City of Burnaby

Collection

Permanent Collection

"Purchased with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts Acquisition Assistance program/Oeuvre achetée avec l'aide du programme d'aide aux acquisitions du Conseil des Arts du Canada".

Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun is a contemporary Canadian artist of Coast Salish and Okanagan descent. Yuxweluptun lives and works in Vancouver, BC and is an advocate for contemporary indigneous issues in Canda. Influential as both artist and activist, Yuxweluptun focuses on Canada’s ecology, the deconstruction of the environment, and the Indigenous injustices that have had a historic legacy throughout Canada. His paintings are a visual protest and a rejection of status quo as his art reveals his own commentary for social change. Yuxweluptun’s work has been included in numerous international exhibitions, such as SITEines.2018: Casa Tomada, at the Site Santa Fe Biennial in New Mexico (2018); Santa Fe Biennial in New Mexico (2018); Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950 to Now, at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas (2018); Time Immemorial (You’re Just Mad Because We Got Here First) at the Candian High Commission at the Canadian High Commission in London, UK (2017); Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2017); Unceded Territories, a retrospective exhibition at at the Museum of Anthropology, UBC (2016); and has recently been honoured on the occasion of receiving his honorary doctorate from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2019).