Maxime Chanson (b. 1983, Saint-Germain-en-Laye) is a French visual artist. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2007), he was awarded the Grand Prix of the 57th Salon de Montrouge, whose jury was then chaired by Jan Hoet. This distinction led to a solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, as well as exhibitions at the Bonnefantenmuseum and other institutions. In 2024, his digital work Portrait du Prix Marcel Duchamp entered the collections of the Centre Pompidou.
Maxime Chanson's practice revolves around "analytical portraits" of actors and entities of the contemporary art field (collectors, institutions, galleries, curators, exhibitions, fairs…). Each portrait is built from a "Motor-Means" artistic profile of the entity under study, a conceptual framework he formalized in his book 600 démarches d'artistes (Jannink, 2011; translated and expanded as 700 Artists' Processes). The website-artwork artistprofiler.art is both the project's research matrix and the evolving gallery of these analytical portraits.