# Greg Staats > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Greg_Staats > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Greg_Staats.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Staats > Source revision: 1341810968 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{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](/source/Six_Nations_of_the_Grand_River_Territory), Ontario | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | education = Applied Photography, [Sheridan College](/source/Sheridan_College), ON | awards = [Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts](/source/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](/source/Mohawk_people) 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](/source/Governor_General's_Awards_in_Visual_and_Media_Arts). == Career == Staats was born on the Ohsweken, [Six Nations of the Grand River Territory](/source/Six_Nations_of_the_Grand_River_Territory) and studied Applied Photography at [Sheridan College](/source/Sheridan_College), Ontario. His art work involves oral transmission, text works, embodied wampum, photography, sculpture, installation and video. Statts said about his images,
The images here are of deep personal connections to family, land, and systemic deficits that continue to exist... .
He sees himself as a "knowledge keeper" who has discovered knowledge of his [Mohawk people](/source/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](/source/Banff_Centre) (2009 and 2010){{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}} and as an artist-in-residence at the [Art Gallery of Ontario](/source/Art_Gallery_of_Ontario) in 2014-2015.{{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}} He is a founding member of the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers' Association (NIIPA). == Selected exhibitions == Solo exhibitions include shows at Gallery TPW; Ottawa, Ont.,2002;{{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}} the Kelowna Art Gallery, 2008; the Museum of Art: [McMaster University](/source/McMaster_University), 2012; Gallery 44, Toronto, 2019; the [Varley Art Gallery](/source/Varley_Art_Gallery) of Markham, 2019; which received an [Ontario Association of Art Galleries](/source/Ontario_Association_of_Art_Galleries) Award,{{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}} and the [Art Gallery of Ontario](/source/Art_Gallery_of_Ontario), ON, 2021.{{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}} Two person or Group exhibitions include shows at Gallery 44, Toronto, 1992; the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography/Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine, 2000; *Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art, a global survey of contemporary Indigenous art, organized by the [National Gallery of Canada](/source/National_Gallery_of_Canada) (NGC) (2013); and others such as "Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts", organized by the Independent Curators International (ICI), 2020;{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/9761-soundings |website=curatorsintl.org/ |publisher=Curators Intl. |access-date=14 March 2024}} == Selected public collections == *National Gallery of Canada;{{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}} == Awards and honours == Staats was awarded the 1999 Duke & Duchess of York Prize in Photography from the [Canada Council](/source/Canada_Council) for the Arts; the 2021 Toronto Arts Foundation’s Inaugural Indigenous Artist Award;{{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}} and was shortlisted for the 2021 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography at [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University).{{cite web |title=Collaborators |url=https://curatorsintl.org/about/collaborators/7884-greg-staats |website=curatorsintl.org |publisher=Curators Intl. |access-date=14 March 2024}} In 2024 he was awarded the [Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts](/source/Governor_General's_Awards_in_Visual_and_Media_Arts). ==References== {{reflist}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Staats, Greg}} Category:1963 births Category:Living people Category:Artists from Ontario Category:20th-century Canadian artists Category:21st-century Canadian artists Category:Canadian photographers Category:Canadian contemporary artists Category:First Nations installation artists Category:Canadian installation artists Category:Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts winners Category:20th-century First Nations people Category:21st-century First Nations artists Category:Canadian video artists Category:First Nations photographers --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Greg Staats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Staats) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Staats?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.