Jean-François Chevrier is an art theorist and historian, art critic and exhibition curator.[1][2] He lives and works in Paris. He is Professor in the History of Contemporary Art at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, after having thought at the Université Paris-Nanterre and Paris VIII.

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Jean-François Chevrier
Born	1954 Lyon, France
Nationality	French
Academic background
Alma mater	École normale supérieure
Academic work
Institutions	Beaux-Arts de Paris Paris Nanterre University Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis

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, John Coplans, Ken Lum, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter and Brassaï.

References

External links

• A selected bibliography of Chevrier's writings
• Jean-François Chevrier portrait in Critique d'art N°36, 2010 (fr) by Marie Muracciole

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[fr] Jean-François Chevrier