Chloe Chiasson
Chloe received her BS from the University of Texas at Austin and MFA from the New York Academy of Art. While at the NYAA, she concentrated in painting and was awarded the Belle Artes Residency and the Chubb Post-Graduate Fellowship. In 2023, Chiasson was awarded the prestigious Fountainhead Residency and presented her first solo institutional exhibition at Dallas Contemporary. Entitled Keep Left at the Fork, this presentation brought together the largest body of work by the artist to date. Chiasson has shown internationally in London, Germany, and Hong Kong. Her work has been featured in Artsy, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz Magazine, Artnet News, and New American Paintings.
Chiasson’s practice explores themes of self-expression and queer identity. Figures inhabit environments reminiscent of her childhood in Texas that not only include but also celebrate queer identity within its distinct cultural context. By juxtaposing images from different periods and finding unexpected resonances within these disparate moments, she challenges us to consider a rewritten narrative. Chiasson’s work is alive with symbology, autobiography, dissonances and resonances, allowing space for larger themes that reflect the varied theatre of queer life.
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Chloe Chiasson: Keep Left at the Fork
Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas October 18, 2023Described by the artist as an imaginative drive down the main street of a small southern town, the sculptural paintings present idealistic visions of rural-bred...Read more -
Chloe Chiasson awarded Fountainhead Residency
Fountainhead Residency, Miami, Florida March 1, 2023Open house: Thursday March 23, 2023 Fountainhead elevates the voices, visibility and value of artists in our society and makes their work accessible in a...Read more -
Chloe Chiasson in Rising Voices 2.0, The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michican May 28, 2021May 28 - September 5, 2021 We are pleasede to announce that Chloe Chaisson was a finalist for the Rising Voices 2: The Bennett Prize...Read more
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Queer Texas: Chloe Chiasson reclaims small-town iconography at Dallas Contemporary
Christopher Wynn, The Dallas Morning News, January 20, 2024 -
Chloe Chiasson: Keep Left at the Fork
Madison Ford, Brooklyn Rail , November 1, 2023 -
7 Artists on the Resilience of Depicting Queer Intimacy in Public
Osman Can Yerebakan, Artsy, June 13, 2022 -
What Does Southern Queerness Look Like?
Elaine Velie, Hyperallergic, June 13, 2022 -
A Monumental Photobooth That Captures Queer Intimacy
Ryan Waddoups, Surface Magazine, May 31, 2022 -
Albertz Benda Opens the First New York Solo Show of the Brooklyn-based Artist Chloe Chiasson
ArtDaily, May 23, 2022 -
Brooklyn Artists Hit the Beach at Untitled and Scope Art Fairs
Vittoria Benzine, Brooklyn Magazine, December 4, 2021
CHLOE CHIASSON
B.1993, Port Neches, Texas
Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
EDUCATION
2019 MFA, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2016 B.S, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 Chloe Chiasson: Keep Left at the Fork, Dallas Contemporary,
Dallas, TX
2022 Bird on a Wire, UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles, CA
Fast Hearts and Slow Towns, albertz benda, New York, NY
2021 Fragmented Bodies II: Fluidity in Form, albertz benda,New York, NY
This Is America, Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam, DE
Rising Voices 2.0, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
2020 Drawn Together, Unit London, London, UK
Chubb Fellows Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2019 New American Paintings 2019 Review: Part 2,
Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
In The Between, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
Drawn Together Again, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2018 I Met God and She Is, MoCADA at Ideal Glass Gallery, New York, NY
Mexico City Residency, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Tough Cookie, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Tribeca Ball, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
Deck the Walls, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2023 March Artist-in-Residence, Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2019 Chubb Fellowship, New York Academy of Art, New York,NY
2018 Belles Artes Residency, Mexico City, MX
PRIZES & AWARDS
2021 Bennett Prize Finalist
2018 Buddy Taub Scholar Award
New York Academy of Art Merit Scholar Award
2017 New York Academy of Art Merit Scholar Award