Clarissa Chevalier 
  1. Education
  2. Publications
  3. Conferences
  4. Research, etc...
  5. Teaching
  6. Awards

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Clarissa Chevalier (she/her) is a Visual Arts PhD student at UC San Diego and is a member of the Program for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research (PIER) at Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Her dissertation research combines posthuman feminism, bio-optical imaging technologies, the history of oceanography, operative and technical images, and contemporary art. Chevalier 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. In addition to her dissertation research, Chevalier has written and presented on topics of sustainability, ecological crisis, women in STEM, science studies, scientific instrument design and gender, ceramics, and the practices of historically under-recognized artists.Email: cchevalier @ ucsd.edu
Clarissa Chevalier 

Art + Science History, 
Interdisciplinary Research & Writing 


Education


2021 – 2027 [anticipated]
Art History PhD student, 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 Environemntal 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


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. 

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.


Conferences


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.

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.

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 and UCSD [ongoing]

Grant Researcher & Interdisciplinary Project Developer, Anya Molyviatis Studio

Performance Art Participant, Wet Grace by Ellen Broadhurst, Sculptures by the Sea, Cottesloe, Australia

2020
Editor & Co-Founder, Tesserae Press

Interdisciplinary Researcher & Book Developer, Ian Strange Studio, Melbourne, Australia

Participating Scholar, Concentric Curriculum: Ecological Gyre Theory,” Bus Projects, Melbourne, Australia

Archival Assistant, SCAD Museum of Art, 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


Teaching 

2022
Graduate Writing Consultant, The Writing Hub, UCSD Teaching + 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, Savannah College of Art and Design

Art History Peer Tutor, Academic Resource Center, Savannah College of Art and Design

2017–2019
English Tutor, The Learning Studio, Columbia College Chicago 



Awards

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