{{Short description|Uruguayan artist (born 1940)}}{{For|the Australian medical practitioner|Margaret Whyte (medical doctor)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2024}}{{Infobox person | name = Margaret Whyte | image = Mwhyte.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|02|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = Montevideo, Uruguay | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | occupation = Artist | years_active = 1972–present | known_for = | notable_works = | spouse = | children = | awards = Figari Award (2014) | alma_mater = | website = {{Official URL}} }} '''Margaret Whyte''' (born 21 February 1940) is a Uruguayan visual artist.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://mnav.gub.uy/cms.php?a=1546 |title=Margaret Whyte |publisher=National Museum of Visual Arts |language=Spanish |access-date=22 May 2019}}</ref>
==Career== Margaret Whyte began her artistic activity in 1972 at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Montevideo. She studied with {{ill|Clarel Neme|es}}, Jorge Damiani, Amalia Nieto, Rimer Cardillo, Hugo Longa, and {{ill|Fernando López Lage|es}}.<ref name=Búsqueda>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xIQyAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Margaret+Whyte%22+%22C%C3%ADrculo+de+Bellas+Artes%22 |title=Galería de Búsqueda, Issues 347-355 |publisher=Galería de Búsqueda |page=84 |language=Spanish |year=2007 |access-date=22 May 2019 |via=Google Books}}</ref> She has been a member of the {{ill|Contemporary Art Foundation|es|Fundación de Arte Contemporáneo}} (FAC) since its inception.<ref name=bisabuela>{{Cite news |url=http://arte.elpais.com.uy/margaret-whyte-la-bisabuela-irreverente-y-subversiva-creadora-de-arte-joven/ |title=Margaret Whyte: la bisabuela irreverente y subversiva creadora de arte joven |trans-title=Margaret Whyte: the Irreverent Great-Grandmother and Subversive Creator of Young Art |first=Alicia |last=Haber |author-link=Alicia Haber |work=El País |language=Spanish |date=22 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304190530/http://arte.elpais.com.uy/margaret-whyte-la-bisabuela-irreverente-y-subversiva-creadora-de-arte-joven/ |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=dead |access-date=22 May 2019}}</ref>
Her work includes paintings, soft sculptures, installations, and interventions.<ref name=Búsqueda/> 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.<ref name=bisabuela/>
In 2014 she received the Figari Award in recognition of her career. The jury, composed of {{ill|Olga Larnaudie|es}}, Lacy Duarte, and {{ill|Enrique Aguerre|es}}, cited the extreme uniqueness of her works and the intergenerational reference that she represents in the Uruguayan art world.<ref name=Figari>{{Cite web |url=https://cultura.mec.gub.uy/innovaportal/v/63012/8/mec/premio-figari-2014:-margaret-whyte |title=Premio Figari 2014: Margaret Whyte |publisher=Ministry of Education and Culture |language=Spanish |date=9 December 2014 |access-date=22 May 2019}}</ref>
==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<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ieteAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Cuerpos+at%C3%A1vicos%22 |title=Arte, Issue 4; Issue 6 |publisher=APEU Artistas Visuales |page=33 |language=Spanish |year=2003 |access-date=22 May 2019 |via=Google Books}}</ref> * ''Hasta que duela'', Cabildo de Montevideo, 2003 * ''Pliegues'', {{ill|Subte Exposition Center|es|Centro de exposiciones Subte}}, 2007<ref name=Búsqueda/> * ''Kanga'', intervention, CCE elevator, Montevideo, 2008 * ''Madame Butterfly'', intervention, Solís Theatre staircase, Montevideo, 2009 * ''Belleza compulsiva'', National Museum of Visual Arts, 2009<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N2KJlsjQgN0C&q=%22Margaret+Whyte%22 |title=Centenario del MNAV |publisher=National Museum of Visual Arts |page=62 |language=Spanish |year=2011 |access-date=22 May 2019 |via=Google Books}}</ref> * ''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<ref name=Figari/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official website}} * [http://mnav.gub.uy/catpdf/mwhyte.pdf ''Belleza compulsiva''] at the National Museum of Visual Arts
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