Richard Garet (US/UY) is a contemporary multimedia artist born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1972. He holds an MFA from Bard College, NY, and has lived and worked in the United States since 1996. Garet's practice is widely recognized in the fields of sound and visual arts, with his works exhibited in prominent galleries and institutions across the globe.

At the core of Garet's artistic exploration lies an investigation of the ontological relationships between materials, perception, and media. His work engages deeply with the activation of background noise, the orchestration of imagery and sound, and the interconnection between outdated and contemporary technological apparatuses. By transforming discarded artifacts and media technologies into meaningful artistic expressions, Garet interrogates the concepts of obsolescence, materiality, and sensory awareness. His practice culminates in abstractions that challenge traditional artistic categorizations, resulting in multidimensional works that invite viewers to experience the unseen, unheard, and unnoticed.

Garet's practice is distinctly interdisciplinary, blending elements of painting, sound art, video, and installation to create sensory constructs and transformative spaces. He often utilizes glitch aesthetics, electromagnetic frequencies, amplified interference, and algorithmically generated forms, bridging the gap between analog and digital realms. This hybrid approach positions his work with a unique take in contemporary art, where the sensory and the conceptual converge.

Through his art, Garet demonstrates how technology can serve as a dynamic bridge between the past and the present, revealing insights into humanity's evolving relationship with the world. His works reflect a meticulous balance between conceptual rigor and sensory engagement, emphasizing the role of perception in understanding contemporary life as a filtered and layered experience. By reimagining noise and interference as creative forces, Garet elevates what is typically regarded as imperfection into a critical element of his aesthetic and philosophical inquiry.

Richard Garet's body of work invites audiences to pause and reflect on the complexity of modern life, offering a lens through which they can explore time, space, and the often-overlooked details that shape human experience. His commitment to innovation and boundary-pushing experimentation continues to redefine the possibilities of multimedia art, solidifying his role as a pivotal figure in the intersection of sound, technology, and visual arts.

Richard Garet's works have been included in prominent institutional collections such as MoMA in New York, the P\erez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Los Angeles, CIFO (Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation) in Florida, and the SPACE Collection (formerly Sayago & Pardon Collection) in Irvine, California. Additionally, Garet's works are held in numerous prestigious private collections across the United States.

Richard Garet's work has been awarded nationally and internationally by institutions such as South Florida Cultural Consortium, FL; Prix Ars Electronica, Linz; Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay; CIFO Grants & Commissions Program, FL; The Clocktower, NYC; Foundation of Contemporary Arts, NYC; Issue Project Room, NYC; New York State Council of the Arts, NYC; and Taliesin West, The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Scottsdale, Arizona.

Selected institutional projects include Viewshed at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Asheville, NC (2025); The Changeover System, with Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder at the National Gallery of Art (NGA), Washington, DC (2025); The San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial: Latin America and the Caribbean, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, Puerto Rico (2024); Perpetual Motion, curated by Barbara London for PAMMTV at Perez Art Museum Miami, FL (2023); MUD 5.0: Sweet Streams (Are Made of This) and Media Under Dystopia Whisper Edition: A Public XR Metaverse at MUD Foundation, Miami, FL (2023); The South Florida Cultural Consortium exhibition at Hollywood Art Center, FL (2023); Transhemisferico at the Gurvich Museum of Art, Montevideo, Uruguay (2022); Plural Domains: Selected Works from the CIFO Collection at the Museum of Art of Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico (2022); Beyond the Sounds of Silence at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL (2022); Plural Domains at the Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL (2021); Four Horsemen at The Festival of the Image, both presented in Manizales, Colombia (2019); Plural Domains as part of the Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador (2018); CIFO Grants & Commissions Program: No Black / No White (No And) at CIFO Art Space, Miami, FL (2017); Perceptual: Sonic Landscape / Midnight Blink, created for the Midnight Moment series by Times Square Arts, New York, NY (2015); International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Cartagena, Colombia (2014); Soundings: A Contemporary Score, curated by Barbara London at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY (2013); Queens International at the Queens Museum of Art, NY (2013); Bioderivas at the Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre, Tenerife, Spain (2013); 5x5 Real Unreal at the Museum of Art Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela (2012); Espacios No-Euclideos at EAC: Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay (2011); Inner-Hum live A/V, Fine Arts Museum of Montreal, Canada (2011); Activating the Medium, Live A/V, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), CA (2011); Possibility of Action: The Life of the Score, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), Spain (2008); The X-Files, The Art Museum of Puerto Rico, San Juan (2006); and The X-Files, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY (2006).

Additional projects include PORTALS, a solo exhibition at Alex Slato Gallery, Miami, FL (2023); Revealing, a two-person exhibition with Andres Michelena at Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, FL (2022); Frame Compositions, a curated NFT collection presented on the 1stDibs NFT Platform, New York, NY (2021); Interstitial Spaces at CTM 2020, KQB Kunstraum, Berlin, Germany (2020); Apocalypse at Galleria Nicola Pedana, Caserta, Italy (2019); Screen Memory at Galerie Burster, Berlin, Germany (2016); RED-Splice at Fridman Gallery, NYC (2016); SOUND ONE, a two-person exhibition at Cindy Rucker Gallery, NYC (2016); Periscope at Zipper Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2016); META-residue: input, material, space at Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY (2015); Theorem: You Simply Destroy the Image I Always Had of Myself at Mana Contemporary, NJ (2015); Adrenalina at Red Bull Station, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2015); Alusiones at Carmen Araujo Arte, Hacienda de la Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela (2015); Extraneous to the Message at Julian Navarro Projects, Long Island City, NY (2013); The Spacious Now and the Scale of the Instantaneous at Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY (2012); ELECTROCHROMA at The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY (2010); GAP at Davis Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain (2010); SONOCHROME at The Public Trust, Dallas, TX (2009); and Time Frame at Gallery 415, San Francisco, CA (2007).

Richard Garet's (material sound) compositions have been published through sound art labels such as: 2023: 13.2 (solo), Richard Garet Bandcamp; 2023: The Changeover System (for Gibson + Recoder) (solo), Richard Garet Bandcamp; 2021: Left and Right (solo), Richard Garet Bandcamp; 2020: For Ming (solo), with Ming-Yuen S. Ma, Richard Garet Bandcamp; 2020: Letting Go (solo), Quarantine, Amplify 2020 Bandcamp; 2019: Aesthetic Echo -- For (Richard) Mutt (solo DVD 4.0 Surround), Leerraum, Bern, Switzerland; 2016: Temporal (solo DVD 4.0 Surround), Leerraum, Bern, Switzerland; 2015: Meta (solo CD), Line Imprint, LA, USA; 2015: 60' Cassette (solo Cassette/Digital), The Helen Scarsdale Agency, San Francisco; 2015: Live Recordings (solo Free MP3 Download), Contour Editions, New York, USA; 2013: Blank Tape Positive (solo CD), Contour Editions, New York, USA; 2012: Silver (solo CD), Obs, Russia; 2012: Areal (solo CD), 23five Incorporated, San Francisco, California, USA; 2011: Decentering (solo CD), Sourdine, Boston, USA; 2011: Melting Ground (audiovisual DVD), Contour Editions, New York, USA; 2010: Michelangelo Antonioni -- Trilogy and Epilogue (compilation CD x2), And-Oar, Seattle, USA; 2009: Four Malleable (solo CD x2), And-Oar, Seattle, USA; 2009: Subtracted (solo), Archisonic Series, White_Line Editions, London, UK; 2008: Winter (solo DVD 4.0 Surround), Leerraum, Bern, Switzerland; 2008: L'avenir (solo), Winds Measure Recordings, New York, USA; 2007: Extract: Portraits of Sound Artists (Book and CD x2), Non Visual Objects, Vienna, Austria; 2006: Intrinsic Motion (solo CD), Non Visual Objects, Vienna, Austria.