(b. 1999, Twin Falls, ID)
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Boston, MA

Clara’s work revolves around self-portraiture, where she uses photography to abstract and fragment her own body. As a trained art historian, she adopts a research oriented and transhistorical approach to investigate how personal narratives are deeply ingrained in cultural and material history. She positions her own body as a field of inquiry in an effort to gain subjectivity, a right that has often been denied to women and queer people like herself. By intentionally fragmenting her own image, she attempts to rehabilitate herself through photography as an act of recovery.

She has a masters in the History of Art and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts and a BFA in Photography and Imaging from NYU Tisch. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has exhibited with NCWCA, Arc Gallery San Francisco, and the Living Gallery, among others. She has participated in residencies globally and spoken at multiple universities including Rutgers, UNC, SUNY, and Universidad de Los Andes.

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