Richard Garet
Richard Garet is a contemporary multimedia artist born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1972. He holds an MFA from Bard College, NY. Garet has lived and worked in the United States since 1996. At the core of Garet’s artistic exploration lies an investigation of the ontological relationships between materials, perception, and media. His work deeply engages with background noise activation, the orchestration of imagery and sound, and the interconnection between obsolete and contemporary technological apparatuses. By transforming discarded artifacts and outdated media technologies into meaningful artistic expressions, Garet examines the concepts of obsolescence, materiality, and sensory awareness. Through conceptual and experimental processes, his practice results in abstractions that reflect contemporary life as a filtered and sensory experience, inviting viewers to engage with the unseen, unheard, and unnoticed.
Richard Garet’s works have been included in prominent institutional collections such as MoMA in New York, the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Los Angeles, CIFO (Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation) in Florida, and the SPACE Collection (formerly Sayago & Pardon Collection) in Irvine, California. Additionally, Garet’s works are held in numerous prestigious private collections across the United States. Richard Garet’s work has been awarded nationally and internationally by institutions such as South Florida Cultural Consortium, FL; Prix Ars Electronica, Linz; Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay; CIFO Grants & Commissions Program, FL; The Clocktower, NYC; Foundation of Contemporary Arts, NYC; Issue Project Room, NYC; New York State Council of the Arts, NYC; and Taliesin West, The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Scottsdale, Arizona. Relevant projects include The Changeover System, NGA, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Soundings: A Contemporary Score, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Perpetual Motion, curated by Barbara London, PAMMTV, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; South Florida Cultural Consortium, Hollywood Art Center, Hollywood, FL; Media Under Dystopia Whisper Edition: A Public XR Metaverse, MUD Foundation, FL; Beyond the Sounds of Silence, Lowe Art Museum of The University of Miami, Miami, FL; Plural Domains: Selected Works From CIFO Collection, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL; Bioderivas, Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre, Tenerife, Spain; Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; 5×5 Real Unreal, Museum of Art Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela; EAC: Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay; Fine Arts Museum of Montreal; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain; Art Museum of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; and El Museo del Barrio, NYC.
