Biography
Jaime Permuth is a Guatemalan photographer living and working in New York City. In 1991 he graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a double major in Psychology and English Literature. In 1994 he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York , and in 2009 a Master of Professional Studies in Digital Photography also from SVA.
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, Yeshiva University 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, Casa del Lago in Mexico City, and the Israeli Parliament. Among others, his work is included in the collections of the Polaroid Corporation, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of the City of New York, Yeshiva University Museum, State University of New York New Paltz, and Centro de Investigaciones Regionales Mesoamericano (CIRMA) in Guatemala. He has received commissions from El Museo del Barrio, The Queens Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, and Queens Theater in the Park.
As an Artist/Educator he is a faculty member in The School of Visual Arts' Masters of Teaching Arts Education Program and has designed workshops and taught classes for the National Center for Creative Aging, el Museo del Barrio, International Center of Photography, State University of New York New Paltz, Kean University, San Francisco Camerawork, University of Texas Permian Basin and the Maine Photographic Workshops.