Margaret Whyte (born 21 February 1940) is a Uruguayan visual artist.
Margaret Whyte began her artistic activity in 1972 at the CÃÂrculo 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 â 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 â 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.