Education
2021 – 2027 [anticipated]
Art History PhD student, Dept. of Visual Arts, University of California San Diego,
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Contact: cchevalier@ucsd.edu
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