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6:30: Announcements

6:35: Curtain Raiser

6:45: Presentation by Jaime Permuth

Jaime Permuth is a Guatemalan photographer living and working in New York City. 

His photographs have been shown at several venues in New York City, including 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. He has also exhibited internationally at the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno in Guatemala, Ryugaheon Gallery (Korea) Casa del Lago in Mexico City, and the Israeli Parliament. Among others, his work is included in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno Guatemala, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, Yeshiva University Museum, State University of New York New Paltz, Art Museum of the Americas (DC), Fullerton Art Museum (CA) Museum of Art Ft. Lauderdale (FLA) and Fondazione Benetton.

Jaime Permuth is a Faculty Member at the School of Visual Arts where he teaches in the Master of Professional Studies in Digital Photography program and at New York Film Academy's Conservatory Program in Photography. 

He is a 2020 Adobe Creative Residence Community Fund recipient.

In 2018, twenty-four works from his 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, his 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 his series The Street Becomes were included in the exhibition “nasty women / bad hombres” at El Museo del Barrio.

In 2015 and again in 2016 he was a Winner of AI AP’s Latin American Fotografia Competition.

In 2014, he was awarded a Smithsonian Institution Artist Fellowship and was also nominated for a 2015 USA Artists Fellowship.

In 2013, his first monograph Yonkeros was published by La Fabrica Editorial (Madrid). Also, in 2013 he was nominated for the Prix Pictet and awarded an NFA Fellowship from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures.

In 2012, he was nominated for the Santa Fe Prize in Photography and was also one of fifteen artists in the United States nominated for the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Contemporary Artist Award.

This will be a virtual meeting via Zoom. The Zoom meeting details will be sent to all active members the day before the meeting.