Miguel Chevalier

Miguel Chevalier is a French artist born in 1959 in Mexico City, Mexico. He lives and works in Paris.

Since 1978, Miguel Chevalier has been using computers as a means of expression in the visual arts. He has established himself internationally as one of the pioneers of virtual and digital art. His experimental and multidisciplinary work addresses the question of immateriality in art, as well as computer-induced logics such as hybridization, generativity, interactivity, and networking.

His works revolve around recurring themes, such as the relationship between nature and artifice, the observation of the flows and networks that organize our contemporary societies, urban transformations and city architecture, and the transposition of motifs from Islamic art into the digital world. The images he presents to us constantly question our relationship with the world.

His works most often take the form of large-scale digital installations that immerse the viewer in the center of an interactive virtual universe in constant flux. He creates site-specific works that revisit the history and architecture of places through digital art, offering a new interpretation of them. Miguel Chevalier also develops sculptures that explore the possibilities of materializing his virtual worlds through 3D printing and laser cutting techniques.

Miguel Chevalier exhibits in museums, art centers, and galleries around the world. He also creates projects in public spaces and in connection with architecture. He regularly collaborates with architects, designers, and music composers. Miguel Chevalier's work engages in a constant dialogue with art history, in a continuity and metamorphosis of vocabulary, to explore and experiment with a new pictorial language.

He was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture in 2022.
He has been collaborating with the MiniMasterpiece gallery since 2013.