Rosa Lowinger, Founder of RLA Conservation, LLC

Rosa Lowinger is a Cuban-American writer and architectural conservator. She is the founder of RLA Conservation, LLC, a firm based in Los Angeles and Miami, and has worked for decades on significant modern art and architecture. Most recently, she served as lead conservator for the Luna Luna Amusement Park and as the 2024 Judith Praska Distinguished Professor of Conservation at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.

Rosa was the opening keynote speaker for the Docomomo U.S. 2024 Symposium and a 2009 Rome Prize Fellow in conservation at the American Academy in Rome. She holds an M.A. in art history and conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts and is among the few conservators who write regularly about the field for mainstream media.

Her books include Tropicana Nights: The Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub; Promising Paradise: Cuban Allure, American Seduction; and Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair. Luisa of the Sea, a children’s picture book about conservation co-authored with her husband, Todd Kessler, will be published in September 2026.