Claire Carcara

Claire Carcara is a Provost Fellow and PhD student in the Department of Art History, as well as a participant in the Visual Studies Graduate Certificate. Her research interests include abstraction, vernacular modernism, alternative curatorial forms and exhibition histories, institutional critique, and (non-traditional) materiality. She has previously held curatorial and research internships at the David & Alfred Smart Museum of Art (University of Chicago), where she worked on the exhibitions Monochrome Multitudes (2022) and Calling on the Past (2023); she was also part of the curatorial team that installed Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s Untitled (L.A.) at the Cochrane-Woods Art Center at the University of Chicago (2023). Prior to attending USC, Claire earned an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Boston University, where she graduated summa cum laude and with departmental honors (History of Art & Architecture).

• M.A. University of Chicago, 2023
• B.A. Boston University, 2021