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.
[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.