Jean-François Chevrier is an art theorist and historian, art critic and exhibition curator. He lives and works in Paris. He is a Professor in the History of Contemporary Art at the

École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine The Seine ( , ) is a river in nor ...

in Paris, after having taught at the Université Paris-Nanterre and

Paris VIII Paris 8 University (), or usually the University of Vincennes in Saint-Denis or Paris 8, is a public university in the Greater Paris, France. Once part of the historic University of Paris, it is now an autonomous public institution. It is base ...

. In his essays Chevrier has examined the place of photography – and by extension modern and contemporary art – among the arts and the media. Exhibitions and catalogues he has curated and co-edited include ''Matter of Facts'' (Nantes et al., 1988), ''Une autre objectivité / Another Objectivity'' (London, 1988), ''Photo Kunst'' (Stuttgart, 1989), '' Craigie Horsfield'' (London, 1989), ''Lieux communs, figures singulières'' (Paris, 1991), ''Walker Evans and Dan Graham'' (Rotterdam, 1992) and ''Craigie Horsfield. La ciutat de la gent'' (Barcelona, 1996). He has written essays on

Jean-Marc Bustamante Jean-Marc Bustamante (born 1952) is a French artist, painter, sculptor and photographer. He is a noted conceptual and installation artist and has incorporated ornamental design and architectural space in his works. Early life Bustamante was born ...

John Coplans John Rivers Coplans (24 June 1920 – 21 August 2003) was a British artist, art writer, curator, and museum director. A veteran of World War II and a photographer, he emigrated to the United States in 1960 and had many exhibitions in Europe and ...

Ken Lum Kenneth Robert Lum, OC DFA (; born 1956) holds dual citizenship in Canada and the United States. He is an artist, an academic, and a curator. Lum's artistic practice spans multiple media including painting, sculpture and photography. His play ...

Michelangelo Pistoletto Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 23 June 1933) is an Italian painter, action and object artist, and art theorist. Pistoletto is acknowledged as one of the main representatives of the Italian Arte Povera. His work mainly deals with the subject mat ...

Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter (; born 9 February 1932) is a German visual artist. Richter has produced Abstract art, abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, photographs and Glass art, glass pieces. He is widely regarded as one of the most important con ...

and

Brassaï Brassaï (; pseudonym of Gyula Halász, ; 9 September 1899 – 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian–French photographer, sculptor, medalist, writer, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerou ...

References

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A selected bibliography of Chevrier's writings

Jean-François Chevrier portrait in ''Critique d'art'' N°36, 2010 (fr)
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Marie Muracciole Marie Muracciole is a writer and curator based in Paris and Beirut. Early life Marie Muracciole studied at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. She shifted her visual art practice to writing in 1991. ...

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