Jaime Permuth

Background

About Jaime Permuth

A Guatemalan photographer based in Seoul, South Korea. I’m best know for long-form documentary work. I am a Faculty Member at the School of Visual Arts, where I taught for a decade in the Masters in Digital Photography Program and as well as at the New York Film Academy’s Conservatory Program in Photography. In 2018, twenty-four works from my series “The Street Becomes” were exhibited at the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Guatemala City. Also in 2018, “The Street Becomes” was a Finalist for the following dummy book competitions: Getxo Photo Open Call (Getxo, Spain), Fiebre Photobook Festival (Madrid, Spain) and FELIFA (Buenos Aires, Argentina). In 2017, my series YONKEROS received solo exhibitions at the New England School of Photography and at the Center for Photography Woodstock. Also in 2017, twelve works from “The Street Becomes” were included in the exhibition “nasty women / bad hombres” at El Museo del Barrio. In 2014, I was awarded a Smithsonian Museum Artist Research Fellowship. In 2013, my first monograph YONKEROS was published by La Fabrica Editorial (Madrid) and is currently nominated for this year's Prix Pictet. YONKEROS has had Book Signings at La Fototeca in Guatemala City, Gimansio de Arte in Mexico City, International Center of Photography in New York, and at Ryugaheon Gallery in Seoul. Also in 2013, I was awarded an NFA Fellowship from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. MY photographs have been shown nationally and internationally, including NYC venues such as The Museum of Modern Art, The Queens Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Museum of the City of New York, The Jewish Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art. My work is included in the collections of the the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, Yeshiva University Museum, State University of New York New Paltz, Art Museum of the Americas (DC), Fullerton Art Museum (CA) and Museum of Art Ft. Lauderdale (FLA).