about cjb
I am a visual artist who combines printmaking, alternative processes in photography, and free-hand drawing to investigate the relationship between our bodies and both the natural and built environments.
I see parallels between neglected and abandoned environments and hidden or concealed parts of the human form (such as natural fat and curvature, or wounded bodies parts), and seek to express how these hidden worlds echo and reflect each other.
Through mixed mediums, I experiment with mark-making and borrowing elements found in the natural world such as the colors of earth and foliage, and the shapes and textures of rock, water, and wood. I am interested in transposing these elements and those of the human form as a to nod to the interdependency of human and environment. To some extent, I seek to eventuate the mundane, and highlight the unnoticed.
By exploring socially-neglected aspects of the human body, I challenge viewers to reconsider not only the “normal” human form, but also to reevaluate their own bodies with all their nuance, contradictions, and idiosyncrasies. By focusing on these neglected parts of ourselves, I hope to allow beauty of pure form where there otherwise is shame or disgrace.
Chloé Besson received her Bachelor in Fine Arts in Printmaking and Photography from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Chloé has exhibited in Boulder, Denver, New York, Chicago, and the South Pacific. Her work has been features in INTERKORS Mag, Westword Denver, Dirt Zine Boulder, the CU Honors Journal, and Flora Fauna Zine Denver.
Chloé is an artist and freelance photographer working in Denver, CO. She also works part time as the Fine Arts Coordinator, Marketing Consultant, and Project Photographer at Noyes Art Designs, an art consulting company in the Arts District of Santa Fe, Denver.
A R T I S T C. V.
[ E D U C A T I O N ]
2015
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking, sub-focus in Photography & Art History
University of Colorado, Boulder
[ S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S ]
2018
The Untitled One, Too
Modern Nomad Gallery, Denver |
The Untitled One (Many Faces)
Boulder Creative Collective, Boulder | September 15 - October 7, 2018
The Faces
Wonder, Boulder, CO | June 1 - September 1, 2018
2016
Through the Pine
Amante Coffee, Boulder, CO, December 2015
Skinned, Month of Print 2016
Black Box Gallery at Madelife, Boulder, CO, March 2016
Skinned, Month of Print 2016
Boulder Creative Collective, Boulder, CO, April 2016
2015
Luck of Print
University of Colorado, Boulder, April 2015
2014
Desensitizing Landscape
University of Colorado, Boulder, October 2014
Somewhere In Between
University of Colorado, Boulder, November 2014
2013
Humble Assassin
University of Colorado, Boulder, October 2013
See It Be
University of Colorado, Boulder, November 2013
[ G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S ]
2017
A Women’s Show of Photography, Month of Photography 2017
Boulder Creative Collective, Boulder, CO March-April 2017
Something That Means Something: An Art Happening
Madelife Gallery, Boulder, CO, May 2017
2016
Spring Grand Salon Show
Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, March 2016
2015
Must Be Continued
Bachelor of Fine Arts show, University of Colorado, Boulder, April 2015
Hand Made Images
University of Colorado, Boulder, November 2015
Something in September
Carol Ann Wachter Gallery, Boulder, CO, September 2015
Perspective on Israel and Palestine
Galeija, Bosnia, November-December 2015
2014
69 Visions of Love
Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO, July 2014
2013
Mythologies
University of Colorado, Boulder, November 2013
Icebreaker Exhibition
IceCube Gallery, Denver CO, December 2013
[ C U R A T E D ]
2018
The Pop-Up
Art Sale and Exhibition, Noyes Art Designs, August 2018
#NEVERAGAIN: The Conversation Continued, May 2018
ATC | DEN, Denver, CO
#NEVERAGAIN: The Conversation Continued 2, October 2018
Boulder Creative Collective, Boulder, CO
[ P U B L I C A T I O N S ]
2018
FLAURA FAUNA Zine, Featured Artist Spread, July 2018
Denver, CO
WESTWORDMagazine, #NEVERAGAIN Art Exhibition Spread, May 2018
Denver, CO
Dirt Zine Magazine, Fine Arts Spread, 2018
2017
Dirt Zine Magazine, Fine Arts Spread, February 2017
2016
Black and White is Worth the Fight, Digital Magazine, Photography Spread March 2016
WESTWORDMagazine, Month of Print, Print Show Spread, March 2016
Denver, CO
2015
INTERKORS Magazine, Photography Spread, May 2015
Denver, CO
2014
Honors Journal
University of Colorado, Boulder
[ P E R M A N E N T C O L L E C T I O N S ]
Hyatt Place
Boulder, CO
Since 2017
Gippsland Centre for Art and Design
Monah University, Gippsland, Australia
Since 2013
[ G R O U P P O R T F O L I O S ]
Mythologies, Print Exchange
Spring 2013
69 Visions of Love, Print Exchange
Spring 2013
[ R E S I D E N C I E S ]
Tabet Letl Print Symposium, Norfolk Island, South Pacific, December 2015
[ A R T I S T P R E S E N T A T I O N ]
2018 48 Hours Summit and Exhibitions
2018 Artist’s Talk at the #NeverAgain Student Show
2017 Artist’s Talk at the Boulder Creative Collective
2015 Artist’s Presentation at the Carol Ann Wachter Gallery, Boulder CO
2015 Artist’s Presentation at the Tabet Letl Print Symposium Art Center, Norfolk Island, South Pacific
[ R E L A T E D E X P E R I E N C E ]
2014 - 2015
Printmaker’s Collective at the University of Colorado, Boulder
Co-Chair
Fine Art Demos taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder
2016-2017 Assistant Teaching in Print
2015 Screen Printing
2015 Monotype 3 Color Reduction
2015 Tusche Wash Lithography
2014 Monotype 3 Color Reduction