Clara Laratta

Clara Laratta is a visual artist based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She received her BFA (Honours) from McMaster University where she graduated with distinction, specializing in painting, printmaking and photography. Laratta's work explores identity through a lens of how our interactions and subsequent emotions influence the way we see and interact with the world. Her research culminates with abstracted re-presentations of objects intertwined with these identified and reconciled emotions.

Laratta has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions across Canada in the United States, India and Italy. She participated in a number of residencies including Biophony, Chelsea, QC, Awakening at Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON and DVSA Dundas, ON. Clara is the recipient of the The Canadian Council for the Arts Create and Explore Grant, the Ontario Arts Council’s Exhibition Assistance Award, Fieldcote Museum’s Juror’s Choice Award, McMaster Museum of Art’s People's Choice Award, McMaster University’s Lorna & David Somers Community Contribution Award for the Arts, a BMO 1st Art! nominee and an invited member of the OSA.

Laratta's work can be found in the permanent collections of The Musee de la Poste, Paris, France, The MoMA, NY, ARTPOOL, Budapest, Hungary, The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, The Fluxmuseum, St. Louis, MO, The Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, The Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Arts Archive of the University of Iowa, The Waskomium, Burlington, VT, The Book Art Museum, Lodz, Poland, Museum fur Kommunikation, Berlin, Germany, Museum Scholoss Mayland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany, Museum fur Kommunikation, Bern, Switzerland, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, and in various private collections.