Inspired by experimental documentary practices, Geneviève Chevalier takes a critical look at the conception of the living inherited from modernity. In the form of video projections, films and series of photographs, her work focuses on certain ways of understanding and learning about the living, such as the garden, the menagerie and the natural history museum collection.

G. Chevalier was artist-in-residence at the Jardins de Métis, in 2024; at the AdMare centre, Îles de la Madeleine, in 2023 ; at the ACME studio, London, in 2020 and 2022; at the ArtLab of the Foreman Art Gallery at Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, in 2021-2022 and at the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow in 2017. Her work was presented at the Festival International du Film sur l'Art and the Cinémathèque québécoise in 2024; the Galerie UQO, Gatineau, in 2023; the Foreman Art Gallery in 2022; Dazibao, Montréal, in 2021 ; the Grantham Foundation for the Arts and the Environment, Saint-Edmond-de-Grantham, in 2019; Optica, Montréal and the Musée régional de Rimouski, in 2018. A monograph of her work, entitled Mirement/Towering, was published in 2023. In 2024, she was part of the exhibition series Faux-plis par hypothèses, curated by Louise Déry and Marie-Hélène Leblanc.

A professor at the School of Art of Laval University since 2020, she holds a PhD in Art Theory and Practice from UQAM and an MFA from Concordia University. She completed a postdoctoral internship in museology on the question of artists' interventions in museum collections.