CHLOÉ DUPLESSIS
Artist. Historian. Speaker.
Chloé Duplessis is a legally blind artist and historian whose work explores the intersections of memory, access, and material culture. Working across visual art, archival research, and historical interpretation, Duplessis centers non-visual ways of knowing—touch, sound, narrative, and embodied experience—as both method and subject.
Her practice explores how disability, perception, and power shape historical record-keeping and public memory. Duplessis earned a degree in Cultural Studies from The University of New Orleans, and has traveled to nine countries and twenty-four states in support of her work. She is the creator of Denver's first visually accessible ‘I VOTED’ sticker and the 2023 recipient of the Denver Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Arts and Culture.
In 2024, Duplessis was selected to lead the Colorado Black Equity Study, a two year historical research program that will document practices and policies that have caused harm to Black Coloradans. Preventing access to wealth, health, education and justice.
She presents exhibitions annually and speaks on Black culture, accessibility and the importance of honoring our shared history.
