Maggie Groat Explained

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.[1] 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.[2] [3] [4]

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.[5] Her work addresses marginalized ways of knowing, salvage practices, and the relationships and reconnections to place through a hybrid Indigenous and settler perspective.[6] [4]

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.[7]

In 2015 and 2018, Groat was nominated and long listed for the Sobey Art Award.[8] [9] [10]

In 2012, Groat won the Artists' Book of the Moment for Studies For Possible Futures.[11]

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.[12]

Notes and References

  1. News: Whyte . Murray . 2013-10-01 . Of Recycling, Re-use and Other Visions . en-CA . The Toronto Star . 2022-03-24 . 0319-0781.
  2. Web site: smitchell . 2017-05-05 . Maggie Groat // Suns also Seasons . 2022-03-24 . kwag.ca . en.
  3. Web site: 2019-08-09 . Maggie Groat . 2022-03-24 . Daniels . en.
  4. Web site: Maggie Groat: flowers also gardens, gardens also seeds . 2022-03-24 . Akimbo . en-US.
  5. Web site: Maggie Groat . 2022-03-24 . Kamloops Art Gallery . en-US.
  6. Web site: MAGGIE GROAT: FOR INSUFFICIENT INTEREST IN PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES . 2022-03-24 . ESP . en-US.
  7. Web site: Nov 22, 2018 . Art exhibit earns Kitchener gallery provincial award . CBC News.
  8. Web site: Longlist Announced for the 2015 Sobey Art Award . 2022-03-24 . The Sobey Art Foundation . en-US.
  9. Web site: Sobey Art Award 2015 Longlist Revealed . 2022-03-24 . Canadian Art . en-US.
  10. Web site: Team . Content . 2017-10-13 . Algoma U to Host Visiting Artist Maggie Groat . 2022-03-24 . en-CA.
  11. Web site: 2013-03-20 . Collage Artist Maggie Groat Wins 2012 Artists' Book of the Moment Award . 2022-03-24 . Kolaj Magazine . en-US.
  12. Web site: Chaisson . Caitlin . Salvage Structures . 2022-03-24 . Canadian Art . en-US.
  13. Web site: Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts - Exhibitions - Independent Curators International . 2022-03-24 . curatorsintl.org.
  14. Web site: Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts - Announcements - e-flux . 2022-03-24 . www.e-flux.com . en.
  15. Web site: Mercer Union . 2022-03-24 . en.
  16. Web site: MOMENTA Biennale de l'image: The Life of Things - Announcements - e-flux . 2022-03-24 . www.e-flux.com . en.
  17. Web site: Object Lessons . 2022-03-24 . Canadian Art . en-US.
  18. Web site: Reading the Line - Western Front . 2022-03-24 . en-US.

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