Clarissa Chevalier 
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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 


Conferences


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.