BIO

     Clara Laratta is an intermedia artist born and based in Hamilton, Ontario. In her work she utilizes integrative methodologies to research aspects of identity. Her latest body of work uses an autoethnographic approach to examine elements of wholeness. This work consists of sculpture, video, and photography. It moves between and merges, modalities, connections, personal and collective healing and culminates in an informal archive of lived experience. She recieved her MFA from University of Waterloo and an Honours BFA, with distinction, from McMaster University. 

     Recent solo exhibitions include In Search of Wholeness, Waterloo, Relational Affects, Kitchener, Unleashed, Hamilton, Liminality, Kitchener, Personal Effects, Dundas. Recent group exhibitions include Disembody, Waterloo, Breath. Heart. Spirit. North Bay and Brantford, Nord Art, Germany, and Dying., Toronto.She participated in the Biophony Residency in Chelsea, Quebec, the Awakening Residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, ON and the DVSA Advanced Studio Residency and is the recipient of the Ontario Graduate Scholarship Award, the President’s Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, The Keith and Win Shantz International Research Scholarship, The Canada Council for the Arts Explore and Create Grant, the Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance, the Juror’s Choice Award, Fieldcote Museum, Ancaster, ON, People's Choice Award, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON, The Lorna and David Somers Community Contribution Award for the Arts, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, a Bank of Montreal First Art! Nominee, McMaster University School of The Arts, Hamilton, ON. and was invited to be a member of the Ontario Society of Artists.

     Her work can be found in the permanent collections of ARTPOOL, Budapest, Hungary, Lucknow University, Lucknow, India, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Museum fur Kommunikation, Berlin, Germany, Museum fur Kommunikation, Bern, Switzerland, Museum Scholoss Mayland, Bedburg-Hau, Germany, The Alternative Traditions in Contemporary Arts Archive of the University of Iowa, The Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC,  The B. Davis Schwartz Library, Long Island University Post, New York, USA, The Book Art Museum, Lodz, Poland, The Fluxmuseum, St. Louis, MO, The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, The Karuizawa New Art Museum, Japan, The Moscow Museum, Russia, The NYC MoMA, New York, USA, The Mumok, Vienna, Austria, The Musee de la Poste, Paris, France, The Waskomium, Burlington, VT,  and in various private collections.