Education
2021 – 2027 [anticipated]
PhD Candidate, Dept. of Visual Arts, University of California San Diego, focus in posthumanism feminism, technical images, history of oceanography, contemporary art. Specialization in Scripps Institute of Oceanography Program for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research
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
Curatorial
2024
Curator, Embodied Pacific: Through a Porcelain Cast. Claudine Arendt, in collaboration with ocean scientists Mark Ohman and Sven Gastauer. Getty PST ART: Art and Science Collide. The Nest at Geisel Library, UCSD.
2024
Co-Curator, Embodied Pacific: Seaways. Getty PST ART: Art and Science Collide. The Visual Arts Gallery at SME, UCSD.
2019
Archival Researcher, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design
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
[Interview] Chevalier, Clarissa, Caroline Giddis, Jay Buchanan, and Holly Gabelmann. "Collaboration." CAA Conversations.
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.
Conferences
2024
Presenting Scholar, "Bio-Optical Oceanography, Ocean Simulacrum, and Posthuman Feminism.” FEMeeting 2024, Windsor, Canada.
Presenting Scholar, "Artifices of Power in a Simulated Sea: Toward a Media Theory of Human-Ocean Entanglement in Contemporary Oceanographic Visualization, Datafication, and Simulation.” Radical Entanglements Philosophy Conference, University of North Texas.
2023
Presenting Scholar, "Pulling Apart the Myth of Independent Scientific Genius with Feminism, Disability Studies, and Artistic Practice.” Society for Social Studies of Science, Honolulu, HI
Guest Speaker, "Contemporary Art, Feminism, and Science History.” Superposition Fremont, San Francisco, CA
2022
Guest Speaker, "Ceramics, New Technologies, and Posthuman Feminism,” UCSD Design Lab Design@Large Series, Soft Structures in Hard Times. San Diego, CA.
Guest Speaker, "Getting into Grad School: What the Pros Know,” Savannah College of Art and Design, SCADextra series. Savannah, GA.
Presenting Scholar, “Posthuman Feminism: A Technological and Ecological Framework for Contemporary Art,” Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Conference. Puebla, Mexico.
Presenting Scholar, “Posthuman Feminism: A Technological and Ecological Framework for Contemporary Art,” FEMeeting 2022. Evora, Portugal.
Participating Scholar, SFSIA Summer Institute, "Deep Ecology and the Cognitive Capitalocene," Brooklyn Rail, NYC
2019
Presenting Scholar, “Mapping the Landscape: A Rumination and Exploration of the Historiography of Earth Art,” 24th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Art History, University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Presenting Scholar, “How the Deconstruction of Binary Opposition Has Shaped the Writing, Work, and Reception of Agnes Denes,” Larry W. Forrest Symposium, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Presenting Scholar, “At the Intersection of Past and Future: Daniel Buren, Faheem Majeed, and the Realization of Institutional Critique in 2018,” Midwestern Art History Society Annual Conference, Cincinnati, OH.
2018
Presenting Scholar, “At the Intersection of Past and Future: Daniel Buren, Faheem Majeed, and the Realization of Institutional Critique in 2018,” Manifest Urban Arts Festival Art History Symposium, Columbia College Chicago.
Teaching
2025
Instructor of Record, Special Topics in Speculative Design, UCSD.
2022 - Present
Graduate Writing Consultant, The Writing Hub, UCSD Teaching + Learning Commons.
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, Savannah College of Art and Design
Art History Graduate Consultant, Academic Resource Center, Savannah College of Art and Design
2017–2019
Writing Consultant, The Learning Studio, Columbia College Chicago
Awards
2024Ships Fund, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego
2023
Russell Grant, “Tracing the Feminist, Anticolonial Transformations of Science Through Creative Practice,” University of California San Diego
Deans Travel Grant, Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Conference, University of California San Diego
2022
Deans Travel Grant, Getty Winter 2022 Consortium Travel, University of California San Diego
2021
Larry W. Forrest Honorable Mention, “The Tip of the Iceberg: An Exploratory Inquiry into the Politicization of Polar Landscapes within Photographic History,” Savannah College of Art & Design.
2020
Faculty of Liberal Arts, Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, Savannah College of Art & Design.
2019
Research Travel Grant, Agnes Denes Absolutes and Intermediates, 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, “How the Deconstruction of Binary Opposition Has Shaped the Writing, Work, and Reception of Agnes Denes,” Savannah College of Art and Design.
Harrison Award for Excellence in Research, University of Alabama Birmingham.
Travel Grant, Midwestern Art History Society Annual Conference, Savannah College of Art and Design.
2018
SCAD Academic Honors Graduate Scholarship, Savannah College of Art and Design.
SCAD Achievement Graduate Scholarship, Savannah College of Art and Design.
2014–2018
Columbia College Academic Achievement Award, Columbia College Chicago.
Contact
cchevalier@ucsd.edu
Contact: cchevalier@ucsd.edu
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