Maxime Chanson is a French contemporary artist, born in 1983 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Trained at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he was awarded the Grand Prix at the Salon de Montrouge in 2012. This led to subsequent exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, the Bonnefanten Museum, and other institutions, and most recently at the Centre Pompidou, which acquired his digital work Portrait du Prix Marcel Duchamp in 2024.
Maxime Chanson sees himself as a portraitist of a new kind, creating portraits that qualify the artistic vision of each entity. His approach is grounded in two concepts he developed in his book 600 démarches d'artistes (later translated and updated as 700 Artists’ Processes): the Motor and the Means.
This concept is the foundation of his Analytical Portraits, digital works that reveal the Motor-Means artistic profile of each portrayed subject. His site-work, Artistprofiler.art, is the artist’s central piece, serving both as a gallery and as the matrix of his analytical portraits.
