Michelle Grabner

Michelle Grabner is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and a National Academician in the National Academy of Design. She is a artist, curator and critic who contributes regularly to Artforum. With her husband artist Brad Killam, she directs the artist-run exhibition spaces and residency: The Suburban (est. 1999) and The Poor Farm (est. 2008). Grabner co-curated the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and the 2016 Portland Biennial. She was the Artistic Director for the inaugural 2018 exhibition, FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. In 2021 Grabner and Theaster Gates co-curated the 5th edition of Sculpture Milwaukee titled there is this We. She is currently curating an exhibition on painting for the Milwaukee Art Museum.

Her work is in the following public collections: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis: the Cleveland Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Art Institute of Chicago; MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Luxembourg; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH; Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI; Daimler Contemporary, Berlin; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA; Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, N; Bates College, Lewiston, Maine

Crown Family Professor in Painting and Drawing. Professor, Painting and Drawing (1996). BFA, 1984, MA, 1987, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; MFA, 1990, Northwestern University, IL.