The article studies cultural and semiotic strategies of constructing indigenous Northern ethnicity inart on the basis of the Yakut art school development research and analysis of paintings by artists of theschool. It defines peculiarities of each period of the Yakut art formation, reveals the trends of nationalschool development within the stream of common art history. It suggests authorial systematization ofpaintings by the Yakut artists. Works are grouped by themes. These are paintings, the cultural andsemiotic forms of which reveal the spiritual world view of the Yakut; pieces representing the conceptof way, the road of life a human walks along; portraits, the visual appearances of which representcertain types of cultural heroes; still lives, representing the most significant items of the Yakut culture.It outlines the development vector of the modern Yakut art, which is the tendency for re-considerationand adaptation of the ethnic memory of the nation for the new globalized world context
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