{{short description|Canadian artist (born 1963)}} {{Use dmy dates|date= March 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Greg Staats | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date text|1963}} | birth_place = Ohsweken, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, Ontario | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | education = Applied Photography, Sheridan College, ON | awards = Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts (2024) | known_for = photographer, video, and installation artist }} '''Greg Staats''' (born 1963) is a photographer, video, and installation artist, known for examining his Mohawk roots in his work. The landscape images in his photography have symbolism such as his images of the white pine, which was used as a symbol of the unity of the Hodinöhsö:ni' Confederacy. Through his work, he hopes to document a return towards a complete Onkwehón:we neha [our original ways] worldview. In 2024, he was awarded the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
== Career == Staats was born on the Ohsweken, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory and studied Applied Photography at Sheridan College, Ontario. His art work involves oral transmission, text works, embodied wampum, photography, sculpture, installation and video.<ref name="col " /> Statts said about his images, <blockquote>The images here are of deep personal connections to family, land, and systemic deficits that continue to exist... .<ref name="ago " /></blockquote>
He sees himself as a "knowledge keeper"<ref name="ggarts " /> who has discovered knowledge of his Mohawk people's heritage and preserves it, conveying it through his art.
Staats has served as faculty for two Aboriginal Visual Arts Residencies at the Banff Centre (2009 and 2010)<ref name="ggarts " >{{cite web |title=Winners |url=https://en.ggarts.ca/greg-staats |website=en.ggarts.ca |publisher=Governor General of Canada |access-date=14 March 2024}}</ref> and as an artist-in-residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2014-2015.<ref>{{cite web |title=Article |url=https://ago.ca/artist-in-residence/greg-staats |website=ago.ca |publisher=Art Gallery of Ontario |access-date=14 March 2024}}</ref> He is a founding member of the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers' Association (NIIPA).<ref name="ggarts " />
== Selected exhibitions == Solo exhibitions include shows at Gallery TPW; Ottawa, Ont.,2002;<ref name="artexte " >{{cite web |title=Artists |url=https://e-artexte.ca/view/artists/Staats,_Greg.html |website=e-artexte.ca |publisher=Artexte |access-date=14 March 2024}}</ref> the Kelowna Art Gallery, 2008;<ref name="artexte " /> the Museum of Art: McMaster University, 2012;<ref name="artexte " /> Gallery 44, Toronto, 2019;<ref name="artexte " /> the Varley Art Gallery of Markham, 2019;<ref name="artexte " /> which received an Ontario Association of Art Galleries Award,<ref>{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://akimbo.ca/listings/winners-of-the-2019-oaag-awards-announced |website=akimbo.ca |publisher=OAAG |access-date=14 March 2024}}</ref> and the Art Gallery of Ontario, ON, 2021.<ref name="ago " >{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://ago.ca/exhibitions/greg-staats-constant-return#:~:text=This%20exhibition%20features%20two%20new,the%20Hodin%C3%B6hs%C3%B6%3Ani'%20worldview. |website=ago.ca |publisher=Art Gallery of Ontario |access-date=14 March 2024}}</ref> Two person or Group exhibitions include shows at Gallery 44, Toronto, 1992;<ref name="artexte " /> the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography/Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine, 2000;<ref name="artexte " /> *Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art, a global survey of contemporary Indigenous art, organized by the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) (2013);<ref name="artexte " /> and others such as "Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts", organized by the Independent Curators International (ICI), 2020;<ref>{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/9761-soundings |website=curatorsintl.org/ |publisher=Curators Intl. |access-date=14 March 2024}}</ref>
== Selected public collections == *National Gallery of Canada;<ref>{{cite web |title=Collection |url=https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artist/greg-staats |website=www.gallery.ca |publisher=National Gallery of Canada |access-date=15 March 2024}}</ref>
== Awards and honours == Staats was awarded the 1999 Duke & Duchess of York Prize in Photography from the Canada Council for the Arts; the 2021 Toronto Arts Foundation’s Inaugural Indigenous Artist Award;<ref>{{cite web |title=Recipients |url=https://torontoartsfoundation.org/initiatives/awards/hidden-pages/recipients-(1)#2021 |website=torontoartsfoundation.org |publisher=Toronto Arts Foundation |access-date=14 March 2024}}</ref> and was shortlisted for the 2021 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography at Harvard University.<ref name="col " >{{cite web |title=Collaborators |url=https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/7884-greg-staats |website=curatorsintl.org |publisher=Curators Intl. |access-date=14 March 2024}}</ref> In 2024 he was awarded the Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
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