Zoma Baitler (3 April 1908 in Šančiai, Lithuania – 16 June 1994 in Montevideo, Uruguay) was a Jewish Lithuanian-born Uruguayan artist and diplomat.
[1] Zoma Baitler was the youngest of six children and his childhood was spent in his native village, a shtetl near Kaunas, Lithuania.
[2] In addition to studying painting and drawing with the Lithuanian painter Paul Kaufman, Baitler attended the art school and World ORT in Lithuania.
In 1927, he moved to Montevideo, Uruguay where he settled and began studying painting and the philosophy of art with the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres García.
In 1959, he was appointed member of the Uruguayan Commission of Fine Arts and between 1963 and 1964 he was cultural attaché of the diplomatic mission of Uruguay in Israel.