Miguel Chevalier

Miguel Chevalier (born 1959 in Mexico City) is a French artist regarded as one of the pioneers of digital art. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and then of the design department of the Arts Décoratifs, he has lived in Paris since 1985.

Since 1978, Miguel Chevalier has explored the computer as a creative medium. His experimental practice combines art history and new technologies. It addresses the relationship between nature and artifice, networks and information flows, virtual cities, and the transposition of Islamic art motifs into the digital world.

His works are most often generative installations, projected on a large scale and designed for a specific site. He also produces 3D-printed sculptures and holograms. In 2008, his "Fractal Flowers" were installed along the Cheonggyecheon stream in Seoul. Ten years later, he showed "Extra-Natural" at the Grand Palais, in the exhibition "Artistes & Robots". In 2019, Rodez hosted him both at the Musée Soulages, with "Pixels Noir Lumière", and in its cathedral, with "Digital Supernova".

From November 2024 to April 2025, the Grand Palais Immersif devoted "Pixels" to him, a 1,200 m² exhibition on two levels. At the same time, the Musée en Herbe presented "Digital Abysses", a descent into the deep sea, from March 2025 to March 2026. His works are held in the collections of the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Fonds national d'art contemporain.