Claire Parker is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the tensions between rural memory, environmental collapse, and systems of power. Raised along the Chesapeake Bay on Susquehannock land, she developed a deep connection to nature, spending time outdoors near the bay or working on her neighbor’s farm. Her practice spans drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, assemblage, and kinetic sculpture, often combining organic and industrial materials: cow skulls, motors, oil barrels to critique extractive culture and dominant narratives. Humor and satire play a vital role in her work, inviting audiences into difficult conversations with disarming clarity.

A Drawing major and Sustainability minor at Pratt Institute, Parker also serves on the NYPIRG student board, where she organizes statewide climate justice initiatives. She views art as both reflection and resistance—an opportunity to rework materials and meaning, confront structures of harm, and envision more sustainable, honest ways of being.