Michelle Grabner

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]

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  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.
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  5. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Michelle Grabner". Retrieved 2021-05-05.