Clarissa Chevalier 
  1. Education
  2. Curatorial
  3. Publications
  4. Conferences
  5. Teaching
  6. Awards

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Clarissa Chevalier (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the University of California San Diego affiliated with the Visual Arts Department and the Program for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her dissertation research combines media theory, feminist science studies, biological oceanography, and artistic practice to critically reimagine contemporary ocean visualization, datafication, and simulation. Chevalier has written and presented on topics of sustainability, ecological crisis, early women oceanographers, and the vital importance of artistic collaboration with scientists to offer alternative interpretations of scientific data calibrated to different ethical commitments. Email: cchevalier @ ucsd.edu
Clarissa Chevalier 
Art + Science History, Environmental Media Theory, Feminist Science Studies

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

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.