Margaret Whyte (born 21 February 1940) is a Uruguayan visual artist.
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 (FAC) 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 (MAC), Montevideo, 1992 Las cosas mismas, Juan Manuel Blanes Museum, Montevideo, 1995 Misterios y ritos, Museo del Gaucho y la Moneda, Montevideo, 1996 Cajas de Petri, Sala Vaz Ferreira, Montevideo, 1999 Espacios medios, Molino de Pérez, Montevideo, 2001 Cuerpos atávicos, Colección Engelman-Ost, 2003 Hasta que duela, Cabildo de Montevideo, 2003 Pliegues, , 2007 Kanga, intervention, CCE elevator, Montevideo, 2008 Madame Butterfly, intervention, Solís Theatre staircase, Montevideo, 2009 Belleza compulsiva, National Museum of Visual Arts, 2009 Lo que queda, Contemporary Art Show, 2012 Uruguayan pavilion, Biennale di Venezia, Venice
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
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External links
Belleza compulsiva at the National Museum of Visual Arts