Maria Gainza

MARIA GAINZA was born in Buenos Aires, where she still resides. She has worked as a correspondent for The New York Times in Buenos Aires, as well as for ArtNews. For more than ten years she was a regular contributor to the magazine Artforum and Radar, the cultural supplement of Página/12. Her debut Optic Nerve was named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, and her second novel Portrait of an Unknown Lady was named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.