CHLOÉ DUPLESSIS
Artist. Historian. Speaker.
Chloé Duplessis is a legally blind artist, historian and speaker 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.
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She approaches art-making as a form of research and documentation, drawing on primary sources, oral histories, and overlooked archives to challenge dominant visual narratives of the past. Her practice explores how disability, perception, and power shape historical record-keeping and public memory.
She 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.
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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.
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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.
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Chloé Duplessis presents art installations annually and speaks on the lesser-known aspects of the Black experience, the collective benefits of accessible design, and the healing power of honoring our shared history.
12 Tablecloths Coming to Fort Garland Soon
Chapter three in the groundbreaking series of installations by renowned artist Chloe Duplesis, 12 Tablecloths - Fort Garland is a reimagined offering that honors the extraordinary contributions of Black women and the significance of domestic service at Fort Garland and other western military outposts during the Civil War era.
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Site-specific versions of 12 Tablecloths have previously been on exhibition at the Center for Colorado Women’s History and the Trinidad History Museum.