Margaret Whyte (born 21 February 1940) is a Uruguayan visual artist.

[1] Margaret Whyte began her artistic activity in 1972 at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Montevideo.

[2] Whyte evokes the memory of the materials she uses – fragments of dresses, tablecloths, and bedspreads bring an intense color to her textile works in which she questions the ideals of beauty and their rituals – as a way to revalue the aesthetic independent of the beautiful.

Her assemblages are accumulations and layers of cut and torn, wrapped, tied, and sewn objects which propose a reflection on the situation of women, beauty, fashion, and their commercial logic.

The jury, composed of Olga Larnaudie [es], Lacy Duarte, and Enrique Aguerre [es], cited the extreme uniqueness of her works and the intergenerational reference that she represents in the Uruguayan art world.