Chloe Chiasson

Chloe Chiasson is a New York–based artist whose sculptural, mixed-media paintings reimagine her rural Texas upbringing through a Queer lens, deconstructing and reconstructing cultural norms around gender and sexuality.

Born in Port Neches, Texas in 1993, Chloe Chiasson’s artistic practice explores themes of self-expression and Queer being. She draws on her memories of childhood, recasting small-town American life as a utopian sanctuary where Queer identity is celebrated.

Now based in New York, Chiasson received her Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas, Austin in 2016 and her Master’s in Fine Art from the New York Academy of Art (NYAA) in 2019, concentrating on painting. While at NYAA, she was awarded the Belle Artes Residency and the Chubb Post-Graduate Fellowship.

Chiasson’s work is alive with symbology, autobiography, dissonances, and resonances, allowing space for larger themes that reflect the varied theatre of Queer life. By juxtaposing images from different periods and finding unexpected resonances within these disparate moments, she challenges the viewer to consider a rewritten narrative.

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.

Previous solos include Bird on a Wire at UTA Artist Space in Los Angeles, and Fast Hearts and Slow Towns at Albertz Benda in New York, both in 2022. Chiasson has participated in group exhibitions at the Green Family Art Foundation (Dallas), Muskegon Museum of Art (Michigan), The FLAG Art Foundation (New York), Kunstraum Potsdam Museum (Potsdam, Germany), Southern Guild Los Angeles and galleries across the US, London and Hong Kong.

Her work is in the collections of the Contemporary Art Foundation in Japan, the Bunker Artspace in Miami, and the Hort Family Collection in New York.