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Born in Baltimore, MD. Lives and works in Chicago, IL.
Claire Pentecost's interdisciplinary practice interrogates the imaginative and institutional structures that organize divisions of knowledge, often focusing on nature and artificiality. Her work positions artistic practice as a research practice, advocating for the role of the amateur in the collection, interpretation, and mobilization of information.
Claire Pentecost's work has been recently exhibited at dOCUMENTA13 (Kassel, Germany), the Istanbul Biennial (Istanbul, Turkey), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL), among others. Her exhibition "Victoryland…you, I shall answer your letter" was on view at Threewalls in 2010. Pentecost is a Professor in the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. undefined