Greg Staats (born 1963) is a photographer, video, and installation artist, known for examining his Mohawk roots in his work.
Through his work, he hopes to document a return towards a complete Onkwehón:we neha [our original ways] worldview.
Staats was born on the Ohsweken, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory and studied Applied Photography at Sheridan College, Ontario.
[4] He is a founding member of the Native Indian/Inuit Photographers' Association (NIIPA).
[2] Two person or Group exhibitions include shows at Gallery 44, Toronto, 1992;[5] the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography/Musée canadien de la photographie contemporaine, 2000;[5] *Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art, a global survey of contemporary Indigenous art, organized by the National Gallery of Canada (NGC) (2013);[5] and others such as "Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts", organized by the Independent Curators International (ICI), 2020;[7] 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;[9] and was shortlisted for the 2021 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography at Harvard University.