Raquel Partnoy (born 1932 in Rosario, Santa Fe) is an Argentine painter, poet, and essayist.
[1] Partnoy's first show was at Van Riel Gallery in 1965, and she continued to paint and held exhibitions at diverse venues in Buenos Aires and other cities of her country until 1994 when she moved to the United States.
She has also had solo exhibits at the B'nai B'rith Klutznick National Jewish Museum, Goucher College, and Washington's Studio Gallery.
[2] Through her series of paintings “Surviving Genocide,” which was shown at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library in 2003, Partnoy depicted her family experiences during the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976–1983) when 30,000 persons disappeared and were eventually killed by state terrorism.
Both Raquel Partnoy's essay on “Surviving Genocide” and the images of her paintings on this subject, were published in The Jewish Diaspora in Latin American and the Caribbean: Fragments of Memory, Kristin Ruggiero, ed.