Maxime Chanson (b. 1983, Saint‑Germain‑en‑Laye) is a French artist. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (2007), he received the Grand Prix of the 57th Salon de Montrouge, chaired by Jan Hoet. The award led to a solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo and further shows at the Bonnefantenmuseum and other institutions. In 2024, his digital work Portrait du Prix Marcel Duchamp entered the collection of the Centre Pompidou.
Chanson’s practice centers on what he calls “Analytical Portraits” of contemporary art figures. Each portrait is built from a "Motor-Means" profile of the subject—an analytical framework he developed in his book 600 démarches d'artistes (Jannink, 2011; translated and expanded as 700 Artists' Processes). His ongoing online work, Artistprofiler.art serves both as the research matrix and as a living gallery for these portraits.
