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Claire Pentecost
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Claire Pentecost (born 1956, Baltimore, Maryland, United States) is an American artist, a writer, and Professor in the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Her interdisciplinary practice interrogates the imaginative and institutional structures that organize divisions of knowledge, often focusing on nature and artificiality. Her work positions artistic practice as a research practice, advocating for the role of the amateur in the collection, interpretation, and mobilization of information. Her current projects focus on industrial and bioengineered agriculture, and the hidden costs of the global corporate food system. Pentecost engages diverse strategies—collaboration, research, teaching, field work, writing, lecturing, drawing, installation and photography—in an ongoing interrogation of the institutional structures that order knowledge. According to her model, the artist is someone who consents to learn in public, interrogating knowledge itself in the cultural space of art, a place where values are contested. She promotes crossing and disturbing the disciplinary boundaries that traditionally limit the authorized specialist.
Pentecost's artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally including dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, Germany. Invitations to speak include a Keynote Lecture at “Revolutions in Practice 2,” the 2010 Creative Time Summit. Her artwork is represented by Higher Pictures, New York.
2007 Nomination, Dreihaus Prize, The Richard Dreihaus Foundation, Chicago, IL
2004 Nomination, Dreihaus Prize, The Richard Dreihaus Foundation, Chicago, IL
2004 Bellagio Residency, Italy
2002 Public Art Commission, Canaryville Branch Library, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Illinois Arts Council Finalist Grant
1999 Invitational Request for Proposals on Biotechnology, Creative Time, New York
1996 Artist in Residence, Consultant, Avina Group, Mallorca, Spain
1993 Art Matters, artist Grant, New York, NY
Speaking Engagements
2012 Banff Research in Culture Residency
2012 dOCUMENTA(13); On Seeds and Multispecies Intra-Action: Disowning Life / Conversation between Josefina Hepp, Claire Pentecost, Amar Kanwar and Nalini Malani
2012 “The agricultural theatre: vernacular knowledge, sustainable development and gree imperialism,” Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
2011 “Make It Better, a Symposium on Art, Design and the Future of Health Care,” Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2010 Creative Time Summit
2010 Symposium on BioArt and BioPower, Humanities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
2004 “A Political Ecology of Bio-Commerce,” Society for the Social Study of Science, Paris, France
2003 “How Next? A Seminar on the Future Role of Civil Society,” Dag Hammarskold Foundation and the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, Dehra Dun, India
2002 "Contestational Biology." Lecture, The Corcoran, Washington DC. (in collaboration with Critical Art Ensemble)
2001 Panel: “Why Make Art About Death?”, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 “A Little History of the Interior(ity), Consciousness Reframed III, Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, Newport, Wales
1998 Ox-Bow School of Arts and Crafts, visiting artist
1996 Yale School of Environmental Studies, Year-End Retreat, visiting artist
1994 Summeracademie, Kunstverein, Munich, Germany, visiting artist
“The Politics of Perception,” with Brian Holmes, catalog essay, published 11th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey; 2009.
"Field of Zombies," essay published for the exhibition agriArt, Fine Arts Gallery at George Mason University; 2009.
Talking With Your Mouth Full: New language for socially engaged art: essays by Lori Waxman, Claire Pentecost & Carrie Lambert-Beatty; edited by Elizabeth Chodos; published Green Lantern; 2008.
Tactical biopolitics: art, activism, and technoscience; edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip; with a foreword by Joseph Dumit; published MIT Press, 2008.
“When Art Becomes Life: Artist-Researchers and Biotechnology,” Transversal, Multilingual Web Journal, European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies; 2007.
Participatory Autonomy; edited by Rebecca Sullivan; with foreword by Hannah Higgins; published UIC School of Art and Design; 2006.
“Reflections on the Case by the U.S. Justice Department against Steve Kurtz and Robert Ferrell;” published Marching Plague, Autonomedia Press; 2006
“Of Patriots and Profits: New Tools for Keeping Academic Research in Line;” with Beatriz DaCosta; published Radical History Review; 2005