Clarissa Maria Chevalier (she/her) is an art history Ph.D. student, interdisciplinary researcher, and writer. Her areas of interest include modern and contemporary art, phenomenology, environmental philosophy, and political ecology, with particular emphasis on interdisciplinary art created in reaction to climate crisis. She also explores the overlaps of art and science, and the ecological practices of historically under-recognized artists.
Education
2021 – 2027 (anticipated)
Incoming Art History Ph.D. student, 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
2021
-Chevalier, Clarissa, Caroline Giddis, Jay Buchanan, and Holly Gabelmann. "Collaboration." CAA Conversations. Online.
-Chevalier, Clarissa. “Autonomy.” Soft Quarterly, Winter 2020/21, 88–89. Online.
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. Online.
-Chevalier, Clarissa. “I Bleed All the Time & I’m Fine: A Conversation with Karina Rosenstein.”Tesserae Press, October 19, 2020. Online.
-Chevalier, Clarissa. “Exhibition Review: The Surprising Intimacy of a PDF.” Tesserae Press, September 5, 2020. Online.
-Chevalier, Clarissa, and Caroline E. Giddis. “Creating Space for Becoming: A 2020 Art Publication Manifesto.” Tesserae Press, August 27, 2020. Online.
-Chevalier, Clarissa. “The Abandoned LeConte Woodmanston Plantation and Botanical Garden.” Georgia Historical Society, 2019. Online.
Research + Art World etc, etc...
2021
-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 [ongoing]
-Interdisciplinary Researcher & Editor, Ian Strange Studio, Melbourne, Australia
-Participating Scholar, “Concentric Curriculum: Ecological Gyre Theory,” Bus Projects, Melbourne, Australia
-Workshop Participant, “Queer Queries,” Curtain University, Perth, 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
More specific: teaching art history
2020
-Teaching Assistant, 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
Conferences + Symposia
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.
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)