Jaime Permuth is a Guatemalan photographer living and working in Seoul, Korea. He is best known for long-form documentary projects which explore the lives of outsiders: individuals and communities who live far from the mainstream, making their own rules as they go along.
2023: “Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección” at El Museo del Barrio, New York City.
2022: “The Street Becomes” exhibited in the Suwon International photo Festival, South Korea.
2021: “The Street Becomes” monograph published by Meteoro Editions (Amsterdam)
2020: Adobe Creative Residence Community Fund recipient and a Winner of Urbanautica Institute Awards.
2018: “The Street Becomes” exhibited at the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno, Guatemala City. 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).
2017: YONKEROS received solo exhibitions at the New England School of Photography and at the Center for Photography Woodstock. “The Street Becomes” exhibited in “nasty women / bad hombres” at El Museo del Barrio, NYC. YONKEROS included in Confluencias Trasatlantica/PhotoEspaña, SESC Vila Mariana, Sao Paulo, Brazil and Casa de América, Madrid.
2015 and 2016: Winner of AI AP’s Latin American Fotografia Competition.
2014: Awarded a Smithsonian Institution Artist Fellowship and nominated for a USA Artists Fellowship.
2013: YONKEROS monograph published by La Fabrica Editorial (Madrid). Nominated for the Prix Pictet and awarded an NFA Fellowship from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures.
2012: Nominated for the Santa Fe Prize in Photography and Nominated for the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Contemporary Artist Award.
Permuth’s photographs have been shown in New York City at 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 former Faculty Member at the School of Visual Arts where he taught for ten years in the Master of Professional Studies in Digital Photography program and at New York Film Academy's Conservatory Program in Photography.