Sevilla, 1996.

Malpica earned a BFA from the Universidad de Granada in 2019, studying abroad during her final year in the Arts and Design programme at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City. Her solo shows include Diversión con amigues (Centro Cultural Cutto, Madrid, 2022), Mismo colchón, misma condición, (Monastery of San Jerónimo, Seville, 2021), Soy especial (Galería Mondo Pichito, Madrid, 2020) and Doente (Granada, 2017). She has also exhibited with fellow artists in Periplo por el espacio (Galería ArtSpace, Mexico City, 2019), and ¿Eres de Sangre Azul? (Ateneo Republicano, Seville, 2021), among other.

As an educator, Clara has worked as facilitator of the project “De la experiencia al fanzine” with Luces de Barrio and Nomad Garden (Seville, 2022), taught a course for young people on video activism, audiovisual culture, youth and human rights organised by Alianza por la Solidaridad (Seville, 2022), and given multidisciplinary art classes to the homeless (Solidarios initiative, 2021–present). Her latest group show, which she also curated, featured the results of those classes and was titled Vivir en la Cuerda Floja (Sala El Cachorro, 2022). Malpica is currently working towards an MA in Art, Idea and Production from the Universidad de Sevilla. She is a co-organiser of the Seville fanzine event Skisomic Festival (active since 2017) and manages La Siesta Colectivo, an experimental analogue photography workshop and developing lab begun in 2021. She has worked as an illustrator for Gen Multicolor, a magazine published by DeFrente (2021–2022), a writer and photographer for Dosis Kafkiana magazine (2020–2021), and a photographer for the newspaper El Salto (2022). In addition, she was a guest speaker at the 11th Anarchist Book Fair (Seville, 2022), the official launch of Topo Tabernario at El Corral de San Antón (Jerez, 2022) and Tiny Fest (Málaga, 2022).