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deeply with the activation of background noise, the orchestration of imagery and sound, and the interconnection between outdated and contemporary technological apparatuses.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.

Relevant projects include The Changeover System, in collaboration with Sandra Gibson and Luis Recoder, NGA, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Soundings: A Contemporary Score, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Perpetual Motion, curated by Barbara London, PAMMTV, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL; South Florida Cultural Consortium, Hollywood Art Center, Hollywood, FL; Media Under Dystopia Whisper Edition: A Public XR Metaverse, MUD Foundation, FL; Beyond the Sounds of Silence, Lowe Art Museum of The University of Miami, Miami, FL; Plural Domains: Selected Works From CIFO Collection, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL; Bioderivas, Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre, Tenerife, Spain; Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; 5x5 Real Unreal, Museum of Art Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela; EAC: Espacio de Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay; Fine Arts Museum of Montreal; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain; Art Museum of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; and El Museo del Barrio, NYC.

Additional projects include PORTALS (Solo Exhibition), Alex Slato Gallery, Miami, FL; Revealing, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, FL; Transhemisferico, Gurvich Museum of Art, Montevideo, Uruguay; Interstitial Spaces, CTM 2020, KQB Kunstraum, Berlin, Germany; Apocalypse, Nicola Pedana Gallery, Caserta, Italy; Four Horsemen, MAKER Fair, Rome, Italy; Primitivo, Casa Hoffman, Bogota, Colombia; The Festival of the Image, Manizales, Colombia; CIFO Grants & Commissions Program Exhibition 2017, Florida, USA; RED-Splice, Fridman Gallery, NYC; SOUND ONE, Cindy Rucker Gallery, NYC; Periscope, Zipper Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Screen Memory, Galerie Burster, Berlin, Germany; Midnight Moment, site-specific work created for the electronic billboards of Times Square, NY; Alusiones, Carmen Araujo Arte, Hacienda de la Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela; Meta-residue: Input Material, Space, Studio 10, NY; Theorem: You Simply Destroy the Image I Always Had of Myself, Mana Contemporary, NJ; Adrenalina, Red Bull Station, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Extraneous to the Message, Julian Navarro Projects, NY; and The Spacious Now and the Scale of the Instantaneous, Studio 10, NY.

His sonic constructions 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), Heln Scarsdale, 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.