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'''Michelle Grabner''' (born 1962 in [[Oshkosh, Wisconsin]]) is an artist, writer, and curator 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 [https://frontart.org/ FRONT International], a triennial exhibition in Cleveland, Ohio in 2018. In 2014, Grabner was named one of the 100 most powerful women in art<ref>https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-100-most-powerful-women-in-art-part-one-124409</ref> and in 2019, she was named a 2019 National Academy of Design's Academician, a lifetime honor.<ref>https://www.nationalacademy.org/class-of-2019</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>
'''Michelle Grabner''' (born 1962 in [[Oshkosh, Wisconsin]]) is an artist, writer, and curator 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 [https://frontart.org/ FRONT International], 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>https://www.nationalacademy.org/class-of-2019</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>


==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]]. 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|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>
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==

Revision as of 23:26, 26 July 2021

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, writer, and curator 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, 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]

Life

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

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; Musée d'art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.[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.

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]

Writing

Her reviews are regularly published in X-tra and Artforum.[15] In 2010, Mary Jane Jacob and Grabner co-edited THE STUDIO READER, published by the University of Chicago Press.[16] In 2018, Grabner edited An American City: Front International, a two-volume exhibition catalog published by the Cleveland Museum of Art.[17]

The Suburban and The Poor Farm

With her husband Brad Killam, she founded The Suburban[18] in Oak Park, Illinois in 1999 which 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 in rural Waupaca County, Wisconsin.[19] The Poor Farm is dedicated to annual historical and contemporary exhibitions, lectures, performances, publications, screenings and alternative educational programs.

References

  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. ^ https://www.nationalacademy.org/class-of-2019
  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.
  13. ^ "FRONT International". FRONT International. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  14. ^ "New Triennial Offers Artists the Canvas of Cleveland". Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  15. ^ "Artforum.com". Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  16. ^ The Studio Reader.
  17. ^ "FRONT International". Shop — Front International. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  18. ^ "History - The Suburban". www.thesuburban.org. Retrieved October 27, 2016.
  19. ^ "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". poorfarmexperiment.org. Retrieved 2018-11-18.

Further reading

  • 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 Ceveland. Mousse Publishing, 2014.
  • Editor, An American City: Front International, two-volume exhibition catalog, published by the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2018.
  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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