Maria Gainza, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Maria Gainza

Argentine art critic and writer

Date of Birth: 25-Dec-1975

Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Profession: writer, art critic

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Maria Gainza (born December 25, 1975, City of Buenos Aires) is an Argentine art critic and writer.She is the daughter of Alberto Gainza Paz, who was director of the newspaper La Prensa. She began publishing about art in 2003, his first articles for newspapers and cultural supplements.
She worked at The New York Times correspondent in Buenos Aires and was an ArtNews correspondent.
For more than ten years she was a regular contributor to Artforum magazine.
She also wrote in the Radar supplement of the newspaper Página/12.
He has taught courses for artists at the Center for Artistic Research and art critic workshops at Torcuato di Tella University.She was co-editor of the collection on Argentine art "Los Sentidos", by Adriana Hidalgo Editora.
Optic Nerve (Spanish: El nervio óptico), her first foray into the narrative, has been translated into ten languages.
In 2018 she edited The Black Light (Spanish: La luz negra), which deals with the art market.In 2017 she received the Konex Award, in the Visual Arts category.In 2019 she received Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for "La luz negra".