Margaret Whyte


Margaret Whyte is a Uruguayan visual artist.
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Career

Margaret Whyte began her artistic activity in 1972 at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Montevideo. She studied with, Jorge Damiani, Amalia Nieto, Rimer Cardillo, Hugo Longa, and. She has been a member of the since its inception.
Her work includes paintings, soft sculptures, installations, and interventions. Whyte evokes the memory of the materials she uses – fragments of dresses, tablecloths, and bedspreads bring an intense color to her textile works in which she questions the ideals of beauty and their rituals – as a way to revalue the aesthetic independent of the beautiful.
Her assemblages are accumulations and layers of cut and torn, wrapped, tied, and sewn objects which propose a reflection on the situation of women, beauty, fashion, and their commercial logic.
In 2014 she received the Figari Award in recognition of her career. The jury, composed of, Lacy Duarte, and, cited the extreme uniqueness of her works and the intergenerational reference that she represents in the Uruguayan art world.

Exhibitions

Pinturas, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montevideo, 1992Las cosas mismas, Juan Manuel Blanes Museum, Montevideo, 1995Misterios y ritos, Museo del Gaucho y la Moneda, Montevideo, 1996Cajas de Petri, Sala Vaz Ferreira, Montevideo, 1999Espacios medios, Molino de Pérez, Montevideo, 2001Cuerpos atávicos, Colección Engelman-Ost, 2003Hasta que duela, Cabildo de Montevideo, 2003Pliegues,, 2007Kanga, intervention, CCE elevator, Montevideo, 2008Madame Butterfly, intervention, Solís Theatre staircase, Montevideo, 2009Belleza compulsiva, National Museum of Visual Arts, 2009Lo que queda, Contemporary Art Show, 2012

Awards

  • Acquisition Award, 39th National Salon of Plastic and Visual Arts, 1975
  • Ministry of Tourism Award, 6th Spring Biennale, Salto, 1996
  • Special and Acquisition Award, Centennial Painting Salon of the Banco República, 1997
  • Spring Biennale Award, Salto, 1998
  • Figari Award for Career, MEC-BCU, 2014