Provenance:

Courtesy of the artist

Note:

Maggie Groat is a visual artist who makes images and objects from found and salvaged materials. Her work considers the utility of images and the transformative, ritual potential of reuse while living in times of climate emergency. Her methodologies are informed by states of being in between, intuition, acts of care, responsiveness, strategies of collage, decolonization, and hopeful speculation.

Recent notable solo, group, and site-specific projects include Contact Photography Festival (Toronto); La Datcha (Berlin); Deep time, portals, particles & pulls on Armory Street in Toronto; Western Front (Vancouver); and AKA (Saskatoon). In both 2015 and 2018, her work was recognized on the Sobey Award long-list and in 2018, her exhibition suns also seasons at Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery received the OAAG award for Exhibition of the Year. Groat studied visual arts and philosophy at York University in Toronto before receiving her Masters in Studio Art from the University of Guelph in 2010. Her work appears in the collections of the Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, the Walter Phillips Gallery, Swiss Re Art, RBC, and the TD Corporate Art Collection.

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