About Maite Gomez-Rejón

For over a decade Maite Gomez-Rejón has been exploring the nexus of art and culinary history through lectures, cooking classes and tastings presented at museums and cultural centers across the country.

Maite is an educator, writer and cook. She has worked in the Education Departments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum, has taught art history at the college level and worked as a private chef and caterer. Her essays and articles have been printed in various publications. She has recently delved into the curatorial field with exhibitions on the history of maize, chocolate, and on the life and legacy of Mexican culinary pioneer Josefina Velazquéz de León at LA Plaza Cocina de Gloria Molina in Los Angeles.

A native of the Texas-Mexico border, Maite earned a BFA from the University of Texas at Austin, an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Grande Diplome from the French Culinary Institute in New York City. She worked in restaurant kitchens in France and Mexico before combining her two passions of art and food in 2007 when she founded ArtBites.

A recipient of the 2024 Latino Spirit Award, Maite lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their rescue dog.