Jean-François Chevrier

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 in Paris, after having taught at the Université Paris-Nanterre and Paris VIII.
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, Une autre objectivité / Another Objectivity, Photo Kunst, Craigie Horsfield, Lieux communs, figures singulières, Walker Evans and Dan Graham and Craigie Horsfield. La ciutat de la gent. He has written essays on Jean-Marc Bustamante, John Coplans, Ken Lum, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter and Brassaï.