Laura Pomerantz

Laura Pomerantz earned her Ph.D. with honors in Art History (2010) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her dissertation, Crevices of a Memory: Art and Holocaust, examines the relationship between contemporary art and the Holocaust through the lens of memory. She holds two bachelor’s degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem — one in Latin American Literature and another in Art History (1985) — as well as a master’s degree with honors in Art History (1997) from UNAM. Her research focuses on the intersections between contemporary art and genocide (including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Guatemala, Rwanda and Bosnia), as well as Installation Art and Mexican Muralism. In recent years, her work has expanded to include the genocides of Indigenous peoples in Argentina. Since 2012, Pomerantz has worked as an independent curator, organizing exhibitions in Los Angeles, Oaxaca and Buenos Aires. She has also taught at academic institutions in Mexico (1998–2007) and Argentina (2014–2025). She has published articles, essays and catalog texts, and has presented lectures and conference papers at various institutions.