NADA Miami 2025

Clare Torina is a New York-based, Memphis-raised multidisciplinary artist whose work moves between painting, sculpture, and installation. Across mediums, Torina investigates the objects we carry, wear, and worship—tracking how meaning accrues to familiar things and how that meaning erodes through mass production and repetition. Her sculptures and paintings often begin with research: the contested folklore of the rabbit's foot, the political origins of friendship bracelets, the slow commercialization of symbols once sacred. "There's a sadness to this," she has noted. "Most things I choose have gone through the commercial ringer and had their histories ignored."

Clare Torina (b. Eugene, Oregon) is a multi-disciplinary artist who was raised in Memphis. She received her BFA from the University of Memphis in 2009 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. She has been a resident at the Skowhegan School School of Painting and Sculpture and an education fellow at the Wassaic Project. In addition to her own practice, Clare is the co-runner of Flyweight, a 1:12 scale mobile exhibition space for solo projects.


Torina lives and works in New York.

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