{{Short description|Canadian artist and educator}} {{Infobox person | name = Maggie Groat | occupation = Artist, Educator, Editor | website = http://www.maggiegroat.com/ }} '''Maggie Groat''' is an artist and educator who lives in Canada. She received her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Guelph in 2010.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Whyte |first=Murray |date=2013-10-01 |title=Of Recycling, Re-use and Other Visions |language=en-CA |work=The Toronto Star |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2013/10/01/of_recycling_reuse_and_other_visions.html |access-date=2022-03-24 |issn=0319-0781}}</ref> Groat has taught at the University of Guelph, University of Toronto, and at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, where she was the Audain Artist Scholar in Residence in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |last=smitchell |date=2017-05-05 |title=Maggie Groat // Suns also Seasons |url=https://kwag.ca/content/maggie-groat-suns-also-seasons |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=kwag.ca |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-08-09 |title=Maggie Groat |url=https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/people/core-faculty/maggie-groat |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Daniels |language=en}}</ref><ref name="akimbo.ca">{{Cite web |title=Maggie Groat: flowers also gardens, gardens also seeds |url=https://akimbo.ca/listings/maggie-groat-flowers-also-gardens-gardens-also-seeds/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Akimbo |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Artistic Practice == Groat has a research-based practice and works with a wide range of media, including collage, works on paper, sculpture, textiles, site-specific interventions, and publications.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Maggie Groat |url=https://kag.bc.ca/soundings/maggiegroat |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Kamloops Art Gallery |language=en-US}}</ref> Her work addresses marginalized ways of knowing, salvage practices, and the relationships and reconnections to place through a hybrid Indigenous and settler perspective.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MAGGIE GROAT: FOR INSUFFICIENT INTEREST IN PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES |url=https://www.erinstumpprojects.com/past-exhibitions/maggie-groat-for-insufficient-interest-in-present-circumstances |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=ESP |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="akimbo.ca"/>
== Awards == In 2017, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery won the Ontario Association of Art Galleries annual award for Groat's exhibition, ''Maggie Groat: Sun also Seasons'', and an honourable mention in the art book category for ''ALMANAC'', which Groat had edited.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=Nov 22, 2018 |title=Art exhibit earns Kitchener gallery provincial award |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/kwag-maggie-goat-suns-also-seasons-exhibit-1.4916144 |website=CBC News}}</ref>
In 2015 and 2018, Groat was nominated and long listed for the Sobey Art Award.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Longlist Announced for the 2015 Sobey Art Award |url=https://sobeyartfoundation.com/en/news/longlist-announced-for-the-2015-sobey-art-award/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=The Sobey Art Foundation |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sobey Art Award 2015 Longlist Revealed |url=https://canadianart.ca/news/sobey-art-award-2015-longlist-revealed/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Canadian Art |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Team |first=Content |date=2017-10-13 |title=Algoma U to Host Visiting Artist Maggie Groat |url=https://saultonline.com/2017/10/algoma-u-to-host-visiting-artist-maggie-groat/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref>
In 2012, Groat won the Artists' Book of the Moment for ''Studies For Possible Futures.''<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-03-20 |title=Collage Artist Maggie Groat Wins 2012 Artists' Book of the Moment Award |url=https://kolajmagazine.com/content/content/articles/collage-artist-maggie-groat-wins-2012-artists-book-of-the-moment-award/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Kolaj Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Select exhibitions == In 2018, Groat exhibited at the Or Gallery in Vancouver, with Joar Nango and Leya Tess. The exhibition was titled ''We Built a House Out of the Things We Had Gathered'' and was curated by Laurie White.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chaisson |first=Caitlin |title=Salvage Structures |url=https://canadianart.ca/reviews/salvage-structures/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Canadian Art |language=en-US}}</ref>
* ''Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts'' (2019-2023 touring), curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson, organized by Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University, Canada and Independent Curators International (ICI). The exhibition toured multiple galleries, including the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts - Exhibitions - Independent Curators International |url=https://curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/soundings#:~:text=Soundings:%20An%20Exhibition%20in%20Five%20Parts%20is%20a%20traveling%20exhibition,Independent%20Curators%20International%20(ICI). |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=curatorsintl.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts - Announcements - e-flux |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/252408/soundings-an-exhibition-in-five-parts/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=www.e-flux.com |language=en}}</ref> * ''Intervals'' (2020), digital image commission presented by Mercer Union.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mercer Union |url=https://www.mercerunion.org/intervals-maggie-groat/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |language=en}}</ref> * ''The Life of Things'' (2019), at MOMENTA Biennale de L'image in Montreal.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MOMENTA {{!}} Biennale de l'image: The Life of Things - Announcements - e-flux |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/277031/momenta-biennale-de-l-imagethe-life-of-things/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=www.e-flux.com |language=en}}</ref> * ''Object Lessons'' (2018), curated by Beatriz Asfora at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Object Lessons |url=https://canadianart.ca/agenda/object-lessons/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=Canadian Art |language=en-US}}</ref> * ''Sun also Seasons'' (2017), solo exhibition at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery.<ref name=":0" /> * ''Reading the Line'' (2015), group exhibition with Alma Alloro, Anne Low, Tanya Lukin Linklater, and Lis Rhodes at Western Front artist-run centre.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reading the Line - Western Front |url=https://legacywebsite.front.bc.ca/events/reading-the-line/ |access-date=2022-03-24 |language=en-US}}</ref>
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