Professor | Photography

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nitza.luna@sagrado.edu

Nitza Luna (San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a photographer, educator, curator, and researcher. Her artistic practice and academic work have made significant contributions to the development, study, and preservation of contemporary photography in Puerto Rico.

She studied at Pratt Institute in New York, where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (magna cum laude) in 1981. During her studies, she discovered her passion for photography and continued to specialize in the field through graduate studies at the Brooks Institute of Photography in California, with an emphasis on the historic platinum print (platinotype) process.

Since 1987, Professor Luna has been a member of the faculty at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. She was promoted to the rank of Full Professor in 2003 and has played a pivotal role in educating new generations of photographers through her teaching of black-and-white analog photography, digital photography, historical photographic processes, and visual culture studies. In parallel, she serves as Guest Curator of Photography at the Museo de Arte de Ponce, where she collaborates in the research, preservation, and dissemination of Puerto Rico's photographic heritage.

Her work has been featured in 24 solo exhibitions and 66 group exhibitions throughout Puerto Rico, the United States, Europe, and South America, and is included in 16 public and private collections. She has also published 21 scholarly articles and delivered 39 academic lectures and presentations in Puerto Rico, the United States, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia.

Among her honors are an artist residency at The MacDowell Colony and several grants from the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, distinctions that recognize the quality of her artistic production and her sustained contributions to the field of photography.