Dr Zahira Véliz Bomford

Dr Zahira Bomford. Independent art historian and art conservator, former Senior Conservator of Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She completed her PhD at the Courtauld, where she has also lectured, in addition to Rice University, Houston, UCL and the V&A. She has worked in conservation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Prado and the National Trust and has published extensively on Spanish art. In 2022 she was recognised by the College Art Association in America with a Lifetime Achievement award and also published a book with the Getty Conservation Institute on Franz Kline.