Chantal Michel

Chantal Michel (born 1968) is a Swiss contemporary video, photo, and performance artist. Her photographic series have featured her body as a sculptural subject, where she uses costumes, gestures, and mimicry to blend into the surroundings in both public and private locations. She lives in Thun, Switzerland.

Education Chantal Michel was born in 1968, in Bern, Switzerland. From 1989 to 1993, Chantal studied ceramics at the Schule für Gestaltung in Bern, Switzerland. Between 1994 and 1998, she studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany. and the Global Feminisms (March 2007) art exhibition at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art within the Brooklyn Museum in New York City.

She received the Performance-Förderpreis award in 2002 from the Alexander Clavel-Stiftung charity in Switzerland.

According to the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, Michel's images are “outbreaks of the bizarre in a world in which the principle of causality reigns."