Painter. Born in Santiago in 1924 and died in 1999. She receives her first artistic orientations from maestro Yoryi Morel. She then joins the School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1948, later acting as professor and deputy director of the School. She integrates, together with Jaime Colson, José Gausachs and Gilberto Hernández Ortega, the group called “Los Cuatro”. Once out of the School of Fine Arts she travels to Madrid and Barcelona to perfect her art studies. She returns from Europe in 1954, obtaining the first prize for sketching at the VI Plastic Arts Biennial during that same year.

She had already been awarded the third prize for sketching in the V Biennial held in
1950. She also was awarded the first prize for Painting at the VI I Biennial in 1956, and once again in 1958 at the VIII Biennial. She receives the first prize of Sketching and second prize for painting at the X Biennial. In 1963 she again wins the award at the XI Biennial. In 1964 she is bestowed the second prize for sketching at the First
Annual Contest, sponsored by E. León Jimenes in Santiago.

She presented more than 20 individual exhibitions at the Xagrá Gallery, in Madrid, Spain; Proteo Gallery, in Mexico; the South American Paula Susel Gallery; Lord & Taylor and Art Garden and Ledesma in New York, and Colbert Gallery in Canada. Her works have been presented in numerous collective exhibitions and in countries such as Brazil, Spain, Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Curaçao and several cities in the United States. She had been living abroad for several years, first in New York, where she directed her own gallery, and later in Montreal, Canada, where she lived. The schematic symbolism in Ledesma’s painting reflects, in a magic and academic manner, a spectacular fantasy of reality.

She stands out for the brilliant effects of light and pleasing colors. Her figures do not show hallucinations and keep the harmony facing the mystery of being. Clara Ledesma added to her work an imaginative, native, charming strength, far from the dramatic or grotesque.