Clara Toro
Industrial Designer and Photographer
Clara is a Colombian industrial designer and photographer. She graduated from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana and studied at Université de Montreal and Pratt Institute.
Clara holds a degree in Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism from the International Center of Photography, where she received a Director’s Fellowship and graduated in December 2023 from the PhotoEspaña master’s program. Clara participated in the Eddie Adams Workshop, where she completed a project about a food pantry in Liberty City for which she received an award from The Wall Street Journal. She has done freelance work for Univision.com, The 19th.com and volunteer photography work for several nonprofits in Miami.
She is a resident artist at The Bakehouse Art Complex, has taught photography workshops at Oolites, has been Teacher assistant at the International Center of Photography and is a member of Women Photographers International Archive WOPHA.
Clara has participated in group exhibits at The Bakehouse Art Complex, in Capture Downtown at the Coral Gables Museum, in Los Colores de Miami at MIFA and the Mexican consulate in Miami, at Clandestina fair in Miami, at Pinecrest Gardens, at The Little Haiti Cultural Complex and at Green Space Miami. She has had solo exhibits at The Bakehouse Art Complex, at the Tory Burch flagship store in Miami, at the Colombian Consulate in Coral Gables and a solo exhibit at Roberto Clemente Park in Wynwood.
She is a winner of a 2022 Ellies Creator Award for her project “Eight minutes” about the historic, endangered Wynwood Norte neighborhood in Miami, and a winner of a 2024 creative grant from Community Engagement. Clara is currently developing a project about the Allapattah neighborhood in Miami, in which she is documenting the stories of its residents, before the impending changes.