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'''Michelle Grabner''' (born 1962 in [[Oshkosh, Wisconsin]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[painter]], [[conceptual artist]], [[curator]] and [[professor]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/curating-the-whitney-biennial-is-not-a-fair-and-equitable-process-1444|title=Two Curators on the 2014 Whitney Biennial - artnet News|date=2014-02-21|work=artnet News|access-date=February 28, 2017}}</ref> She's currently Painting and Drawing Chair at the [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.saic.edu/press/school-art-institute-chicago-saic-rises-national-rankings|title=School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Rises in National Rankings|work=School of the Art Institute of Chicago|access-date=January 26, 2018}}</ref>
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'''Michelle Grabner''' (born 1962 in [[Oshkosh, Wisconsin]]) is an artist, curator, and critic based in Wisconsin.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/curating-the-whitney-biennial-is-not-a-fair-and-equitable-process-1444|title=Two Curators on the 2014 Whitney Biennial - artnet News|date=2014-02-21|work=artnet News|access-date=February 28, 2017}}</ref> She is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]] where she has taught since 1996.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.saic.edu/press/school-art-institute-chicago-saic-rises-national-rankings|title=School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Rises in National Rankings|work=School of the Art Institute of Chicago|access-date=January 26, 2018}}</ref> She has curated several important exhibitions, including the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the [[Whitney Museum of American Art]] along with [[Anthony Elms]] and [[Stuart Comer]], and FRONT International, the 2016 Portland Biennial at the Oregon Contemporary, a triennial exhibition in Cleveland, Ohio in 2018. In 2014, Grabner was named one of the 100 most powerful women in art<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-100-most-powerful-women-in-art-part-one-124409|title=The 100 Most Powerful Women in Art: Part I|date=15 October 2014}}</ref> and in 2019, she was named a 2019 National Academy of Design's Academician, a lifetime honor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalacademy.org/class-of-2019|title=NAD}}</ref> In 2021, Grabner was named a [[Guggenheim Fellowship|Guggenheim Fellow]] by The [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation {{!}} Michelle Grabner|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/michelle-grabner/|access-date=2021-05-05|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2024 Grabner was inducted into the Wisconsin Academy of Art and Science.


==Life==
==Life==
Grabner received a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts|B.F.A.]] (painting and drawing) in 1984 and an [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] in art history in 1987 from the [[University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee]]. She received an [[Master of Fine Arts|M.F.A.]] from [[Northwestern University]] in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts/graduate/people/michelle-grabner|title = Michelle Grabner|date = 2015|access-date = January 16, 2016|website = PennDesign|publisher = University of Pennsylvania School of Design|last = |first = }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = MICHELLE GRABNER with Barry Schwabsky|url = http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/03/art/michelle-grabner-with-barry-schwabsky|website = www.brooklynrail.org|access-date=January 16, 2016}}</ref> At NU she worked with painters [[Ed Paschke]] and [[William Conger]]. She is Professor of Painting and Drawing Department at The [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]], where she has been teaching since 1996. From 1997 through 2003 she was on faculty at the [[University of Wisconsin–Madison]], Department of Art.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/michellegrabner/|title = Michelle Grabner|access-date=January 16, 2016|website = SAIC|publisher = School of the Art Institute of Chicago}}</ref>
Grabner received a [[Bachelor of Fine Arts|B.F.A.]] (painting and drawing) in 1984 and an [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] in art history in 1987 from the [[University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee]]. Her MA thesis and exhibition was titled "Postmodernism: A Spectacle of Reflexivity" and included work by [[Richard Prince]], [[Sherrie Levine]], and [[Kay Rosen]] among others. She received an [[Master of Fine Arts|M.F.A.]] from [[Northwestern University]] in 1990.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.design.upenn.edu/fine-arts/graduate/people/michelle-grabner|title = Michelle Grabner|date = 2015|access-date = January 16, 2016|website = PennDesign|publisher = University of Pennsylvania School of Design|last = |first = }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = MICHELLE GRABNER with Barry Schwabsky|url = http://www.brooklynrail.org/2012/03/art/michelle-grabner-with-barry-schwabsky|website = www.brooklynrail.org|date = 2 March 2012|access-date=January 16, 2016}}</ref> She is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]], where she has been teaching since 1996. In addition, Grabner has also held teaching appointments at The [[University of Wisconsin–Madison|University of Wisconsin-Madison]], [[Cranbrook Academy of Art]], [[Yale School of Art|Yale Norfolk]], [[Bard College]]'s Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, and [[Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture]], Maine.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/michellegrabner/|title = Michelle Grabner|access-date=January 16, 2016|website = SAIC|publisher = School of the Art Institute of Chicago}}</ref>


==Work==
==Work==
Her work is in the collection of the Art Museum of West Virginia University, Morgantown; [[Walker Art Center]], Minneapolis; the [[Milwaukee Art Museum]]; the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago]]; [[DaimlerChrysler]] Collection, Berlin; [[Mudam|Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean]], [[Luxembourg City|Luxembourg]]; [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]], Washington, DC; the [[Indianapolis Museum of Art]]; the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH; the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the RISD MUSEUM, Providence, RI; the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA; the Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; the Bates College, Lewiston, ME; and the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], London among others.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/michelle-grabner|title=Michelle Grabner Faculty Profile|website=School of the Art Institute of Chicago|language=en|access-date=2018-11-18}}</ref> The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland presented her first solo retrospective, Michelle Grabner, "I Work From Home", November 1, 2013 - February 16, 2014.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Grabner, Michelle.|title=Michelle Grabner : I work from home.|date=2014|publisher=Mousse Publishing|others=Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.|isbn=978-88-6749-095-0|location=[Milan, Italy]|oclc=878689383}}</ref> The [[Indianapolis Museum of Art]], [[Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland|MOCA Cleveland]], [[Illinois State University|Illinois State]] Galleries, and INOVA at [[University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee|University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee]] have each hosted survey exhibitions of Grabner's work. Her work has been commissioned by the [[Art Preserve]], John Michel Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; the Columbus Public Library, Dublin Branch, OH; and Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee WI.
Grabner considers herself a [[conceptual artist]], and her work seeks [[Platonic idealism|Platonic ideals]] of orderliness and routine. In her early work, she pursued these principles through her domestic environment and everyday life (crocheted blanket patterns, paper towel patterns, etc.) and in her later abstract work through repetitious vocabulary, simple mathematical ordering, the [[Archimedean spiral]], and basic radial compositions. In 2012, she revisited the domestic realm through use of fabric and gingham patterns. She sees this work in relationship to the work of [[Eleanore Mikus]], [[Anni Albers]], and [[Sheila Hicks]].<ref name="Brooklyn Rail, March 2012">[http://brooklynrail.org/2012/03/art/michelle-grabner-with-barry-schwabsky Brooklyn Rail, March 2012]</ref> Since then, she has returned to the familiar knit and crochet textiles casting them in bronze and mounting as standing sculptures.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Michelle Grabner: Bronze |last=Grabner|first=Michelle|last2=Getsy|first2=David|last3=Levine|first3=Caroline|last4=James Cohan Gallery|year=2016|isbn=9781532326899}}</ref>


Grabner is presently represented by [[James Cohan Gallery|James Cohan, New York]]; [https://www.efremidis.com/en EFREMIDIS, Berlin/Seoul]; Rocket Gallery, London''',''' and [[Green Gallery (Milwaukee)|Green Gallery, Milwaukee]] among others. Notable recent [http://www.michellegrabner.com/exhibitions/ solo exhibitions] include ''A Minor Survey'' at MICKEY, Chicago (2023); ''Similitude'' at EFREMIDIS, Berlin (2022); and ''Michelle Grabner'' at James Cohan, New York (2021). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Gallery Gisela Clement, Bonn, Germany; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; La Mama Galleria, New York; and PS, Amsterdam, Netherlands [http://www.michellegrabner.com/exhibitions/ among many others]. She has participated in residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Art, Master Teacher, New Smyrna Beach, Florida; Arts/Industry, Foundry Kohler Company, Kohler, Wisconsin; and Bullseye Glass, Portland, Oregon.
Her work is in the collection of the [[Walker Art Center]] in Minneapolis, the [[Milwaukee Art Museum]], the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago]]; [[DaimlerChrysler]] Collection, Berlin; [[Mudam|Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean]], [[Luxembourg City|Luxembourg]]; [[Smithsonian American Art Museum]], Washington, DC; and the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]], London.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.saic.edu/profiles/faculty/michellegrabner/|title=Faculty Profile: Michelle Grabner|website=School of the Art Institute of Chicago|dead-url=|access-date=March 8, 2018}}</ref>


She is a National Academician at the National Academy of Design; a Lifetime Distinguished Artist at the Union League Club of Chicago; a Trustee and member of the Acquisition Committee, Milwaukee Art Museum; holds a seat on the advisory Committee of the CUE Foundation New York; is a member of the International Association of Art Critics; and an Artist Pension and Trust Participant. Grabner is currently the Kohler Company Arts/Industry curator.
In November 2012, Grabner was chosen to be one of three curators for the 2014 [[Whitney Biennial]] in New York.<ref>Mary Louise Schumacher. "[http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/181440891.html Michelle Grabner named curator for Whitney Biennial]". ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'', Nov. 29, 2012.</ref>

Grabner co-curated the 2014 [[Whitney Museum of American Art|Whitney Museum]] Biennial<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whitney.org/Exhibitions/2014Biennial|title=Whitney Biennial 2014|website=whitney.org|language=en|access-date=2018-11-18}}</ref> and curated the 2016 [http://portlandbiennial.org/ Portland Biennial].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://portlandbiennial.org/|title=Portland2016 {{!}} A Biennial of Contemporary Art|website=Portland2016|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-18}}</ref> She was the Artistic Director for the inaugural exhibition, FRONT International,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://frontart.org/|title=FRONT International|website=FRONT International|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-18}}</ref> the 2018 Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, titled "An American City."<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/arts/design/cleveland-triennial-front-international-contemporary-art.html|title=New Triennial Offers Artists the Canvas of Cleveland|work=The New York Times |date=11 July 2018 |access-date=2018-11-18|language=en |last1=Sheets |first1=Hilarie M. }}</ref>

A 2023 [[Artforum]] review describes Grabner's "enduring interest in vernacular patterns drawn from domestic life" which informs works that "dazzle with intricate geometries—fractal arrays of flowers, starbursts, swirls, spirals—all of which emerge from deep histories of ornamentation that go back into antiquity and loop forward to grandmothers’ afghans."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Avgikos |first=Jan |date=2023-10-01 |title=Michelle Grabner |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/jan-avgikos-michelle-grabner-513048/ |access-date=2023-12-09 |website=Artforum |language=en-US}}</ref>


==Writing==
==Writing==
Her reviews are [http://www.michellegrabner.com/writing/ regularly published] in ''[[X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly|X-tra]],'' ''New City'''''.'''and ''[[Artforum]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/search|title=Artforum.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-18}}</ref> In 2010, Mary Jane Jacob and Grabner co-edited ''THE STUDIO READER'', published by the [[University of Chicago Press]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo8725125.html|title=The Studio Reader|publisher=University of Chicago Press }}</ref> In 2018, Grabner edited ''An American City'': ''Front International'', a two-volume [[Exhibition catalogue|exhibition catalog]] published by the [[Cleveland Museum of Art]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://front-triennial.myshopify.com/|title=FRONT International|website=Shop — Front International|access-date=2018-11-18}}</ref>
Essays and reviews by Grabner have been published in ''[[Artforum]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|title = Michelle Grabner on Joseph Yoakum|url = https://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201510&id=56280|website = artforum.com|access-date =January 16, 2016}}</ref> ''[[X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly|X-tra]]'', ''[[Frieze (magazine)|Frieze]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|title = Frieze Magazine {{!}} Advanced Search|url = http://www.frieze.com/search/results/a19fed1a5e83f835079eb89326ec1b47/|website = www.frieze.com|access-date =January 16, 2016}}</ref> ''Artext'', ''[[Art press|Art Press]]'', ''Cakewalk'', and ''[[Modern Painters (magazine)|Modern Painters]]''<ref name=":0" />.


==The Suburban and The Poor Farm==
==The Suburban and The Poor Farm==
From 1999-2015 Grabner and her husband Brad Killam ran the artist project space called The Suburban<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thesuburban.org/history.html|title=History - The Suburban|website=www.thesuburban.org|access-date=October 27, 2016}}</ref> in [[Oak Park, Illinois]], which they developed with friend [[David Robbins (artist)|David Robbins]] in response to the idea that the suburbs were an overlooked site for avant-garde activities. In 2016 the moved the Suburban to Milwaukee.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thesuburban.org/contact.html|title=Contact - The Suburban|website=www.thesuburban.org|access-date=October 27, 2016}}</ref> Since January 1999 they have worked with over 200 artists.<ref name="Brooklyn Rail, March 2012"/>
With her husband Brad Killam, she founded [http://www.thesuburban.org/history.html The Suburban]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.thesuburban.org/history.html|title=History - The Suburban|website=www.thesuburban.org|access-date=October 27, 2016}}</ref> in [[Oak Park, Illinois]] in 1999 as a project space that honors the tradition of artist directed programs. The space hosted a range of international contemporary art. In 2015, The Suburban began programming exhibitions in [[Milwaukee]]'s Walker's Point neighborhood.

In 2008 Grabner and Killam purchased the Waupaca County Poor Farm in the Town of [[Little Wolf, Wisconsin|Little Wolf]] in [[Waupaca County, Wisconsin]]. The building's {{convert|8000|sqft|m2}} is dedicated to year-long exhibitions. The Poor Farm, a non-profit art space and residency also has a dormitory building for artists and writers. The Poor Farm hosts classes from the [[University of Minnesota]] and [[Columbia College Chicago|Columbia College]], and each summer hosts Summer School, a free school with a mix of students and faculty from colleges around the [[Twin Cities]].<ref name="Brooklyn Rail, March 2012"/> During the summer of 2009 the Waupaca County Poor Farm was the site of The Great Poor Farm Experiment, a series of artworks installed and presented in and around the Poor Farm during the renovation of the main exhibition building.<ref>{{Cite news|author=Mary Louise Schumacher |title = The Great Poor Farm Experiment|url = http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/52665497.html|newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|date=August 7, 2009 |access-date=January 16, 2016}}</ref>


In 2009 Grabner and Killam opened [http://poorfarmexperiment.org The Poor Farm]<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Poor Farm facilitates and presents artist's projects and year-long exhibitions at the former Waupaca County Poor Farm (built 1876) in Little Wolf, Wisconsin. |url=https://poorfarmexperiment.org/ |access-date=2024-03-22 |language=en-US}}</ref> in rural [[Waupaca County, Wisconsin]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://poorfarmexperiment.org/|title=The Poor Farm facilitates and presents artist's projects and year-long exhibitions at the former Waupaca County Poor Farm (built 1876) in Little Wolf, Wisconsin.|website=poorfarmexperiment.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-11-18}}</ref> The Poor Farm is dedicated to annual historical and contemporary exhibitions, lectures, performances, publications, screenings and alternative educational programs. Since 2018, the Poor Farm is committed to hosting a long-term research residency called [http://poorfarmexperiment.org/?page_id=1209 Living Within the Play], exploring the contingent nature of hosting and gathering, the fleeting and the reverberating, particular to the moment of temporary, intentional assembly.
In spring of 2015, Grabner and Killam moved back to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and are renovating a building in the neighborhood of Riverwest to house The Suburban in Milwaukee.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Schumacher|first1=Mary Louise|title=Michelle Grabner marries Midwest pragmatism to high art|url=http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/arts/303101401.html|newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|accessdate=May 1, 2015|ref=6}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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* Relyea, Lane and Michelle Grabner. “Remain in Light”. Illinois State University, 2008
* Relyea, Lane and Michelle Grabner. “Remain in Light”. Illinois State University, 2008
* ''Michelle Grabner's Black Circle Paintings, Metalpoint Drawings and Monoprints''. Poor Farm Press, 2009.
* ''Michelle Grabner's Black Circle Paintings, Metalpoint Drawings and Monoprints''. Poor Farm Press, 2009.
* Jacob, Mary Jane and Michelle Grabner (eds.). ''The Studio Reader''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
* Jacob, Mary Jane and Michelle Grabner (eds.). ''The Studio Reader''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Grabner, Michelle.|title=Michelle Grabner : I work from home.|date=2014|publisher=Mousse Publishing|others=Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland.|isbn=978-88-6749-095-0|location=[Milan, Italy]|oclc=878689383}}</ref>
*''Michelle Grabner: I Work From Home''. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. Mousse Publishing, 2014.
*Editor, ''An American City'': ''Front International,'' two-volume exhibition catalog, published by the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2018.


==External links==
==External links==
*{{official website|http://www.michellegrabner.com}}
*{{official website|http://www.michellegrabner.com}}
* [http://www.poorfarmexperiment.org/about The Poor Farm Experiment]
* [http://poorfarmexperiment.org/ The Poor Farm Experiment]
* [http://www.thesuburban.org/index.html The Suburban]


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Michelle Grabner
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, U.S.
Education
Known forpainting
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship for Visual Art
Websitewww.michellegrabner.com

Michelle Grabner (born 1962 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin) is an artist, curator, and critic based in Wisconsin.[1] She is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has taught since 1996.[2] She has curated several important exhibitions, including the 2014 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art along with Anthony Elms and Stuart Comer, and FRONT International, the 2016 Portland Biennial at the Oregon Contemporary, a triennial exhibition in Cleveland, Ohio in 2018. In 2014, Grabner was named one of the 100 most powerful women in art[3] and in 2019, she was named a 2019 National Academy of Design's Academician, a lifetime honor.[4] In 2021, Grabner was named a Guggenheim Fellow by The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.[5] In 2024 Grabner was inducted into the Wisconsin Academy of Art and Science.

Life

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Grabner received a B.F.A. (painting and drawing) in 1984 and an M.A. in art history in 1987 from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Her MA thesis and exhibition was titled "Postmodernism: A Spectacle of Reflexivity" and included work by Richard Prince, Sherrie Levine, and Kay Rosen among others. She received an M.F.A. from Northwestern University in 1990.[6][7] She is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has been teaching since 1996. In addition, Grabner has also held teaching appointments at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Yale Norfolk, Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine.[8]

Work

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Her work is in the collection of the Art Museum of West Virginia University, Morgantown; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; DaimlerChrysler Collection, Berlin; Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH; the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the RISD MUSEUM, Providence, RI; the Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA; the Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; the Bates College, Lewiston, ME; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London among others.[9] The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland presented her first solo retrospective, Michelle Grabner, "I Work From Home", November 1, 2013 - February 16, 2014.[10] The Indianapolis Museum of Art, MOCA Cleveland, Illinois State Galleries, and INOVA at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have each hosted survey exhibitions of Grabner's work. Her work has been commissioned by the Art Preserve, John Michel Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; the Columbus Public Library, Dublin Branch, OH; and Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee WI.

Grabner is presently represented by James Cohan, New York; EFREMIDIS, Berlin/Seoul; Rocket Gallery, London, and Green Gallery, Milwaukee among others. Notable recent solo exhibitions include A Minor Survey at MICKEY, Chicago (2023); Similitude at EFREMIDIS, Berlin (2022); and Michelle Grabner at James Cohan, New York (2021). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Gallery Gisela Clement, Bonn, Germany; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; La Mama Galleria, New York; and PS, Amsterdam, Netherlands among many others. She has participated in residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Art, Master Teacher, New Smyrna Beach, Florida; Arts/Industry, Foundry Kohler Company, Kohler, Wisconsin; and Bullseye Glass, Portland, Oregon.

She is a National Academician at the National Academy of Design; a Lifetime Distinguished Artist at the Union League Club of Chicago; a Trustee and member of the Acquisition Committee, Milwaukee Art Museum; holds a seat on the advisory Committee of the CUE Foundation New York; is a member of the International Association of Art Critics; and an Artist Pension and Trust Participant. Grabner is currently the Kohler Company Arts/Industry curator.

Grabner co-curated the 2014 Whitney Museum Biennial[11] and curated the 2016 Portland Biennial.[12] She was the Artistic Director for the inaugural exhibition, FRONT International,[13] the 2018 Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, titled "An American City."[14]

A 2023 Artforum review describes Grabner's "enduring interest in vernacular patterns drawn from domestic life" which informs works that "dazzle with intricate geometries—fractal arrays of flowers, starbursts, swirls, spirals—all of which emerge from deep histories of ornamentation that go back into antiquity and loop forward to grandmothers’ afghans."[15]

Writing

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Her reviews are regularly published in X-tra, New City.and Artforum.[16] In 2010, Mary Jane Jacob and Grabner co-edited THE STUDIO READER, published by the University of Chicago Press.[17] In 2018, Grabner edited An American City: Front International, a two-volume exhibition catalog published by the Cleveland Museum of Art.[18]

The Suburban and The Poor Farm

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With her husband Brad Killam, she founded The Suburban[19] in Oak Park, Illinois in 1999 as a project space that honors the tradition of artist directed programs. The space hosted a range of international contemporary art. In 2015, The Suburban began programming exhibitions in Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood.

In 2009 Grabner and Killam opened The Poor Farm[20] in rural Waupaca County, Wisconsin.[21] The Poor Farm is dedicated to annual historical and contemporary exhibitions, lectures, performances, publications, screenings and alternative educational programs. Since 2018, the Poor Farm is committed to hosting a long-term research residency called Living Within the Play, exploring the contingent nature of hosting and gathering, the fleeting and the reverberating, particular to the moment of temporary, intentional assembly.

References

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  1. ^ "Two Curators on the 2014 Whitney Biennial - artnet News". artnet News. 2014-02-21. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
  2. ^ "School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Rises in National Rankings". School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
  3. ^ "The 100 Most Powerful Women in Art: Part I". 15 October 2014.
  4. ^ "NAD".
  5. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Michelle Grabner". Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  6. ^ "Michelle Grabner". PennDesign. University of Pennsylvania School of Design. 2015. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
  7. ^ "MICHELLE GRABNER with Barry Schwabsky". www.brooklynrail.org. 2 March 2012. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
  8. ^ "Michelle Grabner". SAIC. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved January 16, 2016.
  9. ^ "Michelle Grabner Faculty Profile". School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  10. ^ Grabner, Michelle. (2014). Michelle Grabner : I work from home. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. [Milan, Italy]: Mousse Publishing. ISBN 978-88-6749-095-0. OCLC 878689383.
  11. ^ "Whitney Biennial 2014". whitney.org. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  12. ^ "Portland2016 | A Biennial of Contemporary Art". Portland2016. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
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Further reading

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  • Relyea, Lane and Michelle Grabner. “Remain in Light”. Illinois State University, 2008
  • Michelle Grabner's Black Circle Paintings, Metalpoint Drawings and Monoprints. Poor Farm Press, 2009.
  • Jacob, Mary Jane and Michelle Grabner (eds.). The Studio Reader. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010.[1]
  • Michelle Grabner: I Work From Home. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. Mousse Publishing, 2014.
  • Editor, An American City: Front International, two-volume exhibition catalog, published by the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2018.
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  1. ^ Grabner, Michelle. (2014). Michelle Grabner : I work from home. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland. [Milan, Italy]: Mousse Publishing. ISBN 978-88-6749-095-0. OCLC 878689383.
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