Clarissa Chevalier (she/her) is an art historian, interdisciplinary researcher, and writer. She received an MA in art history from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2020 and a BA in cinema arts and art history from Columbia College Chicago in 2018. Chevalier’s research areas are underpinned broadly by the global environmental crisis and include contemporary science/art collaborations, posthuman feminism, expanded definitions of science, craft mediums with an emphasis on ceramics, and the ecological practices of historically under-recognized artists, including the work of Agnes Denes.
Education
2021 – 2027 [anticipated]
Art History PhD student, Dept. of Visual Arts, University of California San Diego, specializing in art + science
2018 – 2020
M.A., Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Art History Thesis: Anticipating the Anthropocene: Agnes Denes’s Public Works, 1968–1998
2014 – 2018
B.A., Cinema Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, Minor in Art History, Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Art History Thesis: At the Intersection of Past and Future: Daniel Buren, Faheem Majeed, and the Realization of Institutional Critique in 2018
Academic, Creative + Poetic Publications
2022
Chevalier, Clarissa. "Agnes Denes: Ecological Art and Cultural Sustainability." The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability. Edited by Robert Brinkmann. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38948-2_193-1
2021
Chevalier, Clarissa. "Eco-Phenomenology and the Maintenance of Eco Art: Agnes Denes's A Forest for Australia." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol 21, no 2, 273–290.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14434318.2021.1992726
Chevalier, Clarissa, Caroline Giddis, Jay Buchanan, and Holly Gabelmann. "Collaboration." CAA Conversations. Online.
Chevalier, Clarissa. “Urban Interventions and Eco Art: Wheatfield, A Confrontation (1982).” Power Clash Art. May 17, 2021.
Chevalier, Clarissa. “Autonomy.” Soft Quarterly, Winter 2020/21, 88–89. Online.
Chevalier, Clarissa. "Energy Transfer." Plant Press Zine. 2021.
2020
Chevalier, Clarissa, and Caroline E. Giddis. “Filling the Gap with Experimental Arts Journal Tesserae Press.” Edited by Jackie Andrews. Power Clash Art, December 14, 2020.
Chevalier, Clarissa. “I Bleed All the Time & I’m Fine: A Conversation with Karina Rosenstein.”Tesserae Press, October 19, 2020.
Chevalier, Clarissa. “Exhibition Review: The Surprising Intimacy of a PDF.” Tesserae Press, September 5, 2020.
2019
Chevalier, Clarissa. “The Abandoned LeConte Woodmanston Plantation and Botanical Garden.” Georgia Historical Society, 2019. Online.
Research, etc...
2022
Participating Scholar, SFSIA Summer Institute, "Deep Ecology and the Cognitive Capitalocene," Brooklyn Rail, NYC
Getty Consortium Participant, Winter 2022, Researching Feminist Historiographies, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Educational Materials Developer, History of Art: A Global View (2021), Thames & Hudson, New York, NY
Researcher, Pacific Standard Time 2024, Getty Foundation [ongoing], UCSD
Grant Researcher & Interdisciplinary Project Developer, Anya Molyviatis Studio [ongoing]
Performance Art Participant, Wet Grace by Ellen Broadhurst, Sculptures by the Sea, Cottesloe, Australia
2020
Editor & Co-Founder, Tesserae Press
Interdisciplinary Researcher & Editor, Ian Strange Studio, Melbourne, Australia
Participating Scholar, “Concentric Curriculum: Ecological Gyre Theory,” Bus Projects, Melbourne, Australia
Archival Assistant, Savannah College of Art and Design
2019
Gallery Assistant, Laney Contemporary Fine Art, Savannah, GA
2018
Docent, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design
Research Intern, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design
Installation Assistant to Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Shadow Stories and Matters of Time, SCAD Museum of Art
Conferences + Speaking
2022
Guest Speaker, UCSD Design Lab Design@Large Series, Soft Structures in Hard Times, "Ceramics, New Technologies, and Posthuman Feminism."
Guest Speaker, Savannah College of Art and Design, SCADextra series, "Getting into Grad School: What the Pros Know."
Presenting Scholar, Society for Social Studies of Science, paper titled: Posthuman Feminism: A Technological and Ecological Framework for Contemporary Art
Presenting Scholar, FEMeeting 2022, paper titled: Posthuman Feminism: A Technological and Ecological Framework for Contemporary Art
2019
Presenting Scholar, 24th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Art History, University of Alabama Birmingham, paper titled: Mapping the Landscape: A Rumination and Exploration of the Historiography of Earth Art
Presenting Scholar, Larry W. Forrest Symposium, Savannah College of Art and Design, paper titled: How the Deconstruction of Binary Opposition Has Shaped the Writing, Work, and Reception of Agnes Denes
Presenting Scholar, Midwestern Art History Society Annual Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, Presented undergraduate thesis: At the Intersection of Past and Future: Daniel Buren, Faheem Majeed, and the Realization of Institutional Critique in 2018.
2018
Presenting Scholar, Manifest Urban Arts Festival Art History Symposium, Columbia College Chicago, Presented undergraduate thesis: At the Intersection of Past and Future: Daniel Buren, Faheem Majeed, and the Realization of Institutional Critique in 2018.
Teaching Art History
2022
Graduate Writing Consultant, UCSD Teaching and Learning Commons [ongoing]
2021
Teaching Assistant, Visual Arts Department, UCSD.
2020
Teaching Intern, ARTH 343: Installation and Environmental Art, Winter 2020, Savannah College of Art and Design
2019
Workshop Leader, Academic Resource Center, 2019, Savannah College of Art and Design
Art History Peer Tutor, Academic Resource Center, Savannah College of Art and Design
2018
Seminar Leader, Art Theory Seminar, Columbia College Chicago
2017
English Tutor, Columbia College Chicago, The Learning Studio
Awards + Grants
2021
Larry W. Forrest Honorable Mention Paper (Savannah College of Art & Design), paper titled: The Tip of the Iceberg: An Exploratory Inquiry into the Politicization of Polar Landscapes within Photographic History
2020
Faculty of Liberal Arts Outstanding Academic Achievement Award (Savannah College of Art & Design)
2019
Agnes Denes Absolutes and Intermediates Thesis Research Travel Grant (Savannah College of Art & Design)
Steven Myers Endowment Scholarship in Art History (Savannah College of Art and Design)
Larry W. Forrest Memorial Writing Competition Graduate Winning Paper (Savannah College of Art and Design)
Harrison Award for Excellence in Research (University of Alabama Birmingham)
Midwestern Art History Society Annual Conference Travel Grant (Savannah College of Art and Design)
2018
SCAD 4-Year Academic Honors Graduate Scholarship (Savannah College of Art and Design)
SCAD 4-Year Achievement Graduate Scholarship (Savannah College of Art and Design)
2014
Columbia College 4-Year Academic Achievement Award (Columbia College Chicago)
Florence Barnes Scholarship (McArthur, Ohio)
Ryan Seitz Memorial Scholarship (McArthur, Ohio)