Maria Gainza (born December 25, 1975, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine art critic and writer. [1]
She is a granddaughter of Alberto Gainza Paz, who was director of the newspaper La Prensa.
She began publishing her first articles about art for newspapers and cultural supplements in 2003.She has been a regular contributor to Artforum magazine for more than ten years. She also wrote in the Radar supplement of the newspaper Página/12. She has taught courses for artists at the Center for Artistic Research and art criticism workshops at Torcuato di Tella University. [2] In 2017, she won the Konex Award in the Visual Arts category. [3]
She was co-editor of the collection on Argentine art "Los Sentidos", by Adriana Hidalgo Editora.
Optic Nerve (Spanish: El nervio óptico, published in 2014 by Editorial Mansalva), her first foray into narrative, has been translated into ten languages. [4] [5]
In 2018, she published The Black Light (Spanish: La luz negra, published by Editorial Anagrama), a detective novel that deals with the art market and forgery through the lives of four women. [6]
In 2019 she received Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for "La luz negra".
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