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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).