Maxime Chanson is a French artist, born in 1983 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Trained at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (alumni 2007), he was awarded the Grand Prix at the 57th Salon de Montrouge—then chaired by Jan Hoet—a distinction that led to a solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, as well as exhibitions at the Bonnefantenmuseum and various other institutions. In 2024, his digital artwork Portrait du Prix Marcel Duchamp joined the collections of the Centre Pompidou.
His artistic practice centers around what he calls “Analytical Portraits” of contemporary art figures. Each portrait is structured around the “Motor-Means” artistic profile of the analyzed entity, a conceptual approach he formalized in his book 600 démarches d'artistes (Jannink, 2011; later translated and expanded as 700 Artists' Processes). The site-work Artistprofiler.art functions both as the matrix and as the evolving gallery for these analytical portraits.
