Jaime Gaiti

 

     

 

 

      Jaime Gaiti was born in 1993 on Long Island, New York, where she lived for 21 years.  She attended Suffolk County Community College from 2011 to 2014 where she studied visual arts.  During this time she also enrolled in numerous special effects makeup workshops in New York City where she expanded her knowledge of painting, sculpture, and mold making.  

      In 2014, Gaiti transferred to the Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine, where she lives today.  She earned her Bachelor in Fine Arts in 2016, after graduating from MECA's sculpture department.  Her work is inspired by the human body and its fragility and complexities.  

     Gaiti has been involved in numerous student exhibitions, participating in her first group show in 2011 at the Sayville Art Gallery in New York.  Since then she has participated in exhibitions in the Maurice N. Flecker Gallery in Selden, New York, and in the Porteous Building of the Maine College of Art in Portland.