Clara Gutsche


Clara Gutsche is an American-born Canadian photographer, educator and art critic living and working in Montreal.
She was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She studied visual arts at Concordia University and obtained a MA in photography. She teaches photography part-time in the Studio Arts department at Concordia.
She was a founding member of the artist-run Powerhouse Gallery in Montreal.

Work

Gutsche's work portrays the relation between people and their environments. Her series La série des couvents shows nuns in various convents in Quebec.
Her photographs have been exhibited at the McCord Museum, the, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal, the Canadian Centre of Photography in Toronto and the Americas Society building in New York City.
Her work is held in public collections, including the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and Library and Archives Canada.

Photography series