Luis Camnitzer (1937-) is a German-born Uruguayan artist and academic who resides in the United States. He is a conceptual artist who works in the media of printmaking and sculpture.
Camnitzer was born in Lubeck, Germany in 1937, but raised in Uruguay and is a Uruguayan citizen. He studied architecture and sculpture at the University of Uruguay in Montevideo, and later studied sculpture and printmaking at the Munich Academy. In 1964 he moved to New York.
Camnitzer taught at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, New York, from 1964. He is Professor Emeritus at University of the State of New York. He lives in Great Neck, New York.