MICHELLE GRABNER
Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin (1962)
Lives and works in Milwaukee, WI; Chicago, IL; and Waupaca County, WI
Michelle Grabner is a Wisconsin-based artist, writer, and curator. She co-curated the 2014 Whitney Biennial and was the Artistic Director for the inaugural 2018 FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. Her practice spans a variety of media including drawing, painting, and sculpture, and finds a creative center in operating across platforms and towards community. Her work has been the subject of several national museum surveys. She is presently represented by James Cohan, New York and Green Gallery, Milwaukee, among others.
Grabner is the Crown Family Professor of Art and the Senior Chair of the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has taught since 1996. She has also held teaching appointments at The University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cranbrook Academy of Art; Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts—Bard College; Yale University School of Art; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, MEMBERSHIPS, BOARDS
| 2019-Present | National Academician, National Academy of Design |
| 2019-Present | Lifetime Distinguished Artist, Union League Club of Chicago, IL |
| 2019-Present | Board Member, FRONT International: Cleveland Exhibition for Contemporary Art | 2019-Present | Board Member, FRONT International: Cleveland Exhibition for Contemporary Art |
| 2017-Present | Acquisition Committee, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
| 2016-Present | Trustee: Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
| 2013-Present | Ox-bow School of Art and Artist Residency Program Committee, Saugatuck, MI |
| 2018-2022 | Sculpture Milwaukee Board Member | 2010-2015 | College Art Association: Annual Conference Committee and Service to Artists Committee |
| 2010-2015 | Board Member, Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2010-Present | Advisory Committee CUE Foundation, NYC |
| 2005-Present | International Association of Art Critics |
| 2004-Present | Artist Pension and Trust Participant |
RESIDENCIES
| 2019 | Atlantic Center for the Art, Master Teacher, New Smyrna Beach, FL |
| 2017 | Arts/Industry, Foundry Kohler Company, Kohler, WI |
| 2016 | Bullseye Glass, Portland, OR |
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
| 2020 | Art Preserve, John Michel Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI |
| 2019 | Columbus Public Library, Dublin Branch, OH |
| 2018 | Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee WI |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Luxemburg
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, DE
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
RISD MUSEUM, Providence, RI
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Bates College, Lewiston, ME
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
| 2021 | Fellowship Recipient, Fine Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |
| 2021 | Guest Curator, Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn, Germany |
| 2020 | Panelist, Aspen Institute Artist-Endowed Foundations Initiative with Daisy Bousquet-Desrosier, Enrique Martinez Celaya Theaster Gates, and Tomas Vu-Daniel |
| 2020 | Visiting Artist, Painting and Printmaking, School of Art, Yale, New Haven, CT |
| 2020 | Guest Curator, Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI |
| 2020 | Guest Curator, G16, San Francisco, CA |
| 2020 | Curator, Patterns II, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2020 | Panelist, Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI |
| 2020 | Juror, Atlantic Center for the Arts University Student Exhibition, New Smyrna Beach, FL |
| 2020 | Juror, Grilled Cheese Grant, Milwaukee, WI |
| 2020 | Juror, North of 45, Northern Michigan University and Art Museum, Marquette, MI |
| 2020 | Juror, McKnight, Print Fellowship, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2020 | Tony Tasset and Michelle Grabner in Conversation, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2020 | Visiting Artist, Department of Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL |
| 2019 | Visiting Artist, Painting, Cranbrook Art Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
| 2019 | Tony Lewis and Michelle Grabner in Conversation, NADA, Chicago Athletic Club, Chicago, IL |
| 2019 | Panelist, with Mary Jane Jacob and Gabi Scardi on the work of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Marlborough, London, UK |
| 2019 | Public conversation with Theaster Gates and Zachary Cahill, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2019 | Panelist, Schönheit, Gallery Gisela Clement with Prof. Dr. Anne-Marie Bonnet and Dr. Werner Gephart |
| 2019 | Public conversation with Maureen Ragalie and Lois Bielefeld, St. Kate Milwaukee, WI |
| 2019 | Juror, Red Bull Detroit Artist Residency and Curatorial Fellowships, Detroit, MI |
| 2019 | Artist talk on Gretchen Bender, So Much Deathless, Red Bull, New York, NY |
| 2019 | Resident Artist, Atlantic Center for the Art, New Smyra Beach, FL |
| 2018 | Public Conversation with Ingrid Schaffner, FRONT Porch, Cleveland, OH |
| 2018 | Panel participant with Mark Rapport, Nicholas Bourriaud, Diana Nawi, Art Basel Miami |
| 2018 | Panel Moderator: China with Pi Li and Philip Tanari, Cleveland Museum of Art |
| 2018 | Conversation with Dean Sobel, Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO |
| 2018 | Views from Here (LA): Panel discussion moderated by Michelle Grabner for X-tra, Human Resources, LA |
| 2018 | Curator Makeshift, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI |
| 2018 | Conversation with Ingrid Schaffner, FRONT International, Cleveland, OH |
| 2018 | Panel Moderator, Dawoud Bey, Leigh Raiford and Steven Nelson, Art Expo, Chicago, IL |
| 2018 | Panel Moderator, Makeshift, John Michael Kohler Art Center, WI |
| 2018 | Panelist, Artist Run Spaces and Galleries moderated by Lisa Kurzner with Kelley O’Brien, Tim Mann and Jack Schneider, Eli Walker and Kelly Kroener at FRONT Porch, Cleveland, OH |
| 2018 | Conversation with María del Carmen Carrión, ICI Curatorial Hub, NY |
| 2018 | Conversation with Margaret Andera, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI |
| 2018 | Visiting Artist, Painting, Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
| 2018 | Panel participant, Artist Run spaces, FRONT International, Cleveland, OH |
| 2018 | Conversation with Jennifer Kabat, Cleveland Institute for Art, OH |
| 2018 | Visiting Artist, Art Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| 2018 | Panel Moderator, FRONT International, Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL |
| 2018 | Visiting Artist Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT |
| 2018 | Juror Ford Family Foundation, Portland, OR |
| 2018 | Juror, Miami of Ohio University, Young Painter Competition, Miami, OH |
| 2018 | Artist Lecture, Society for Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 2017 | Conversation with Jens Hoffmann, Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2017 | Curator, American Genre: Contemporary Painting, ICA, MECA, Portland, ME |
| 2017 | Conversation with Jens Hoffmann, AGO, Toronto, Canada |
| 2017 | Conversation with Jens Hoffmann, Center for the Arts, University of Buffalo, NY |
| 2017 | Artist Lecture, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2017 | Visiting Artist, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2017 | Visiting Artist, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2017 | Panel Participant, Road Less Traveled, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI |
| 2017 | Faculty, Oxbow winter session, Saugatuck, MI |
| 2017 | Conversation with Tricia Paik, Mount Holyoke, South Hadley, MA |
| 2017 | Visiting Artist, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR |
| 2017 | Curator: Vicki, with an I at Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI |
| 2017 | Curator: In House, Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC |
| 2016 | Curator, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX |
| 2016 | Panel Participant, ‘Curator: Autodidact Polymath or Academic Expert?” Frieze, New York, NY |
| 2016 | Visiting Artist and Artist Talk, Brown University, Providence, RI |
| 2015 | Michelle Grabner in Conversation with Danial Sturgis, University of the Arts, London |
| 2015 | Curator: Inside/Outside: Works from the Skowhegan Archives, Waterville, ME |
| 2015 | Visiting Artist “Viewpoint” (spring semester) with Gregory Volk, University of Texas, Austin, TX |
| 2015 | Panel Discussion: Artists as Curators: Past, Present, Future, with Ken Lum, Anthony Graves, and Patricia Phillips RISD Museum |
| 2015 | Visiting Artist, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
| 2015 | Evaluators for Kate Newby, Doctor of Fine Arts candidate, ELAM School of Fine Arts, The University of Auckland, NZ |
| 2015 | Visiting Artist at Tandem Press, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| 2015 | OTIS College of Art and Design, Program Review committee, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2015 | Visiting Artist, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY |
| 2015 | Visiting Artist, University of the arts, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2015 | Visiting Artist, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA |
| 2015 | Gallery talk with Nnenna Okore, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL |
| 2014 | Gallery talk with Glenn Adamson, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2014 | Visiting Artist, American University, Washington DC |
| 2014 | Discussion with Michelle Grabner and Jeff Beasley, Starting the Conversation: Art School, The Crit and the Biennial, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit |
| 2014 | Discussion with curator Jens Hoffman, Jewish Museum, NYC |
| 2014 | Juror, New American Painters, Northeast |
| 2014 | Panel Discussion with Michelle Grabner, David Robbins and Paul Druecke, moderated by Lisa Sutcliffe at the Milwaukee Art Museum, WI |
| 2014 | Salon Discussion, Curating at The Periphery, Art Basel, moderated by Reto Thüring, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2014 | Visiting Artist, Washington University, St. Louis, MO |
| 2014 | Visiting Artist, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH |
| 2014 | Public Conversation with Sara Krajewski, Director at INOVA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI |
| 2014 | HERE AND NOW: BIENNIALS IN THE 21ST CENTURYPANELISTS: Dan Byers; Michelle Grabner; Franklin Sirmans. MODERATOR: Lynne Cooke, Armory Show |
| 2014 | Form Fit lecture series, University of Illinois, Chicago |
| 2014 | Co-Moderator with Sabina Ott, The Center Will Not Hold, CAA Panel, Chicago, IL |
| 2014 | Sensitive Instruments Panel, CAA, Moderator: Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Chicago, IL |
| 2014 | Living and Sustain a Creative Live Panel Discussion with Sharon Louden, Werner Kramarsky, and Ed Winkleman, 92 St Y, NYC |
| 2013 | Visiting Artist Hunter College, NYC |
| 2013 | Public Conversation with Adrienne Outlaw at the Nashville Public Library, TN |
| 2013 | Public Conversation with Stuart Horodner at The Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA |
| 2013 | Visiting Artist, San Francisco Art Institute, CA |
| 2013 | Public Conversation: I Work From Home with David Norr, MOCA Cleveland, OH |
| 2013 | Lecture Tuesday Evenings at the Modern Lecture Series, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX |
| 2013 | Conversation with Exhibition Curator, Allison Grant, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL |
| 2013 | In Conversation with Lily Cox-Richardson, Helmut Stern Auditorium at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor |
| 2013 | Visiting Artist, University of Texas-Arlington, TX |
| 2013 | Visiting Artist, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| 2013 | Visiting Artist, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL |
| 2013 | CAA Panel, “How to Make a Living as an Artist: With or Without a Dealer,” NYC |
| 2013 | Visiting Critic, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, PA |
| 2013 | Atlantic Lecturer at Claremont Graduate University, CA |
| 2013 | Curator, A Study in Midwestern Appropriation, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago |
| 2013 | Advisor to Vitamin D2, Phaidon Press |
| 2013 | Panel Participant, Painter Painter, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2013 | Gallery Talk with Judy Ledgerwood and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
| 2013 | Conversation with Seth Hunter, Autumn Space, Chicago, IL |
| 2013 | Visiting Artist, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL |
| 2012 | Artist talk, New York Academy of Art, NY |
| 2012 | Artist talk, Painting and Printmaking, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| 2012 | In Conversation with Eve Sussman at Art EXPO, Chicago |
| 2012 | Artist to Artist, a conversation with Molly Zuckerman Hartung, The Arts Club of Chicago, IL |
| 2012 | Artist lecture, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS |
| 2012 | Curator, A Painting Show (in two parts) PEREGRINEPROGRAM, Chicago |
| 2012 | College Art Association, Studio Art Representative, 2014 Conference, Chicago |
| 2012 | Televisionism, in conversation with Dana DeGiulio, Logan Center, University of Chicago, IL |
| 2012 | Curator, Milwaukee Artist Resource Network, Milwaukee, WI |
| 2012 | Artist talk, INOVA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| 2012 | Curator, Twenty-Five Years of Talent, Marianne Boesky Gallery, 63rd street, NYC |
| 2012 | Visiting Artist, Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
| 2012 | Visiting Artist, Florida State University, FL |
| 2012 | Visiting Artist, Eastern Michigan University, MI |
| 2012 | California College of the Arts, San Francisco |
| 2012 | CAA Centennial Panel “Reclaiming” the Studio as a Site of Production” Chair: Patty Wickman, Michelle Grabner, Karen Kleinfelder, Amanda Ross-Ho, Doug Harvey |
| 2012 | Visiting Artist Bowling Green State University, OH |
| 2011 | Visiting Artist, Alfred University, School of Art and Design, Alfred NY |
| 2011 | CUE Foundation Fellows Committee, NYC |
| 2011 | Guest Editor Possible Press, Philadelphia |
| 2011 | Visiting Artists, The Maryland Institute College of Art Hoffberger School of Painting |
| 2011 | Visiting Artist, Rice University, Houston |
| 2011 | Senior Critic, spring semester, University of Pennsylvania |
| 2011 | Artist Lecture, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
| 2011 | Artist Lecture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia |
| 2011 | Visiting Artist, University of Iowa, Iowa City |
| 2011 | Visiting Artist, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee |
| 2011 | Visiting Artist, Sculpture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan |
| 2011 | Visiting Artist, University of South Florida, Tampa |
| 2011 | Visiting Artist St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN |
| 2011 | Visiting Artist, University of University of Puget Sound, Washington |
| 2011 | Visiting Artist, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC |
| 2011 | Visiting Artist, Mississippi School of Art, Jackson MS |
| 2010 | Advisor to Vitamin P2 Phaidon Press |
| 2010 | Visiting Critic, Fall Critiques, University of Chicago |
| 2010 | Public Conversation with MCA Senior Curator Michael Darling and Critic Lane Relyea, MCA, Chicago |
| 2010 | Panel Participant, with Anthony Huberman, Thomas Boutoux, Boris Gobille, François Piron, and Benjamin Thorel (castillo/corrales, Paris), moderated by Aaron Van Dyke, MCAD |
| 2010 | Presenting: the Suburban and the Poor Farm, Midway Contemporary Art, MN |
| 2010 | Visiting Artist, Michigan State University |
| 2010 | Visiting Artist, Oxbow, Saugatuck, MI |
| 2010 | Visiting Critic, Spring Critiques, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| 2010 | Visiting Artists, Virginia Common Wealth, Richmond, Virginia |
| 2010 | Visiting Lecture, University of Chicago Contemporary Art Workshop |
| 2010 | Guest Curator NEWTONLAND: Orbits, Ellipses and other Planes of Activity, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO |
| 2010 | AICA Panel: New Challenges for Art Criticism: Relational Aesthetics, Social Collaborations, and Public Interactivity, Michelle Grabner, Joseph Grigely, Joao Ribas |
| 2010 | CAA Open Studio Session: Painting Panel Chair, Chicago, IL |
| 2010 | Co-Curating with Annika Marie PICTURING THE STUDIO, Sullivan Galleries, SAIC |
| 2010-2011 | Studio Advisor, Vermont College of Fine Arts |
| 2009-2010 | Studio Advisor, Maine College of Art |
| 2009 | Advisory Board, Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago |
| 2009 | Visiting Artist, New York University, NYC |
| 2009 | Gallery Talk, “Constellations: On Conceptual and Pictorial Impulses in Painting,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
| 2009 | Visiting Artist, Cleveland Institute of Art |
| 2009 | Visiting Artist, Chapman College, LA |
| 2009 | Panel Participant “Abstraction,” with Charles Spurrier, James Hyde, Gary Stephan, Carrie Moyer, Viebke Sorenson, Moderator: Deborah Kahn, American University, Washington |
| 2009 | Visiting Artist, Spring Semester, American University, Washington, DC |
| 2009 | Visiting Artist, Savannah College of Art and Design, GA |
| 2009 | Visiting Artist, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN |
| 2008 | Visiting Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA |
| 2008 | Paper and panel participant at Society of Photographic Education Conference, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland |
| 2008 | Visiting Artist, Bennington College, Vermont |
| 2008 | Visiting Artist, University of Houston, TX |
| 2008 | Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Painting at San Francisco Art Institute |
| 2008 | Studio Talk with Cleveland Institute of Art (Spring and Fall Semesters) |
| 2008 | Visiting Artist, CalArts, Valencia, CA |
| 2008 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS |
| 2008 | Visiting Artist, Wichita State University |
| 2007-2011 | CUE Foundation Advisory Committee, NYC |
| 2007 | DOKUMENTA, Panelist moderated by Mary Jane Jacobs, Goethe Institute, Chicago |
| 2007 | Visiting Faculty Yale Norfolk Program, Norfolk, CON |
| 2007 | “Alternative,” Panelist, The School of the Art Institute, VAP Program |
| 2007 | Visiting Artist lecture, Columbia University NYC |
| 2007 | Visiting Artist, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary |
| 2007 | Visiting Artist Eastern Illinois University |
| 2007 | Visiting Artist Faculty Yale Norfolk Program |
| 2007 | Nominator for The Altoids Award, The New Museum, NYC |
| 2007 | Artist talk, INOVA, UW-Milwaukee |
| 2007 | “Minimalism & Its Legacy: A Panel Discussion,” participant. INOVA, UW-Milwaukee |
| 2007 | “Moving Contemporary Art Forward,” panel participant, MCA, Detroit |
| 2007 | “Hunger for Images,” Panel Moderator, with Fred Tomaselli, Brad Kahlhammer, Jose Lerma and Joseph Ketner. The Milwaukee Art Museum |
| 2007 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI |
| 2007 | Panel Moderator, McKnight Fellows 2007, Minneapolis College of Art and Design |
| 2007 | Visiting Artist Lecture, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 2007 | Visiting Artist, Columbia College, Chicago, IL |
| 2006 | Visiting Artist/Faculty, Burren College of Art, The Burren, Ireland |
| 2006 | Curated “The Believers,” Hudson Franklin Gallery, NYC |
| 2006 | Panel Participate, “Transcurating Panel” at “Trans: Visual and Critical Studies Conference” The University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2006 | Visiting Artist, Bethel College, St. Paul, MN |
| 2006 | Visiting Artist, University of Houston, Houston |
| 2006 | Visiting Artist, Maine College of Art, Portland Maine |
| 2006 | Panel Participant, Three Walls, Bad at Sports, Chicago, IL |
| 2006 | Visiting Artist, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis |
| 2006 | Visiting Artist, Wesleyan College, Lincoln Nebraska |
| 2006 | Visiting Artist, Core Program, Glassell School of Art, Houston |
| 2006 | Visiting Artists/Critic Graduate Seminar Class UIC Dr. Annika Marie |
| 2006 | Curatorial Project, “Moreover: Practicing Representation and Abstraction,” BAC Chicago |
| 2006 | Juror, “2006 McKnight Fellowship,” Minneapolis |
| 2006 | “Alternatives,” Symposium and Lecture, Ferndale Art Center, Houston |
| 2005-2006 | Visiting Artist, two undergraduate seminar classes UIC, Rodney Carswell |
| 2005 | Visiting Artist, The Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
| 2005 | Panel Moderator with Kathryn Hixson “The State of Criticism” SAIC |
| 2005 | Panel Moderator with Kathryn Hixson “Reaction” SAIC |
| 2005 | Curatorial Project, “The Suburban” Project Row House, Houston |
| 2005 | International Contemporary Art Experts Forum ARCO ’05, Panelist, Madrid, Spain |
| 2005 | Visiting Artist, SUNY Purchase, NY |
| 2005 | Visiting Artist, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville |
| 2005 | Visiting Artist, University of Texas at Tyler, TX |
| 2005 | Panel Participant, “The Art of Artist Statements, Hellenic Museum, Chicago |
| 2005 | Guest Editor, Cindy Loehr’s LOVE LETTER project |
| 2004 | Visiting Artist, Core Program, Glassell School of Art, Houston |
| 2004 | INOVA Advisory Committee, School of Fine Arts, UW-Milwaukee |
| 2004 | Artistic Hubris: A Panel Discussion Organized by the Pond. ArtChicago, Chicago |
| 2004 | Juror, The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Individual Artist Awards, Chicago |
| 2004 | Visiting Artist/Lecture, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL |
| 2004 | Panel Participant, “Contemporary Criticism” Associated Colleges of the Midwest Chicago Arts Program, Chicago |
| 2004 | Selection Committee for TBA Art Chicago 2004 Project Spaces |
| 2004 | Visiting Artist/Lecture, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland |
| 2004 | “One in Eight,” A Curatorial Project by Helidon Gjergi, TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago |
| 2003 | Panel Participant, Contemporary Criticism, Core Program, Glassell School of Art, Houston |
| 2003 | Visiting Artist, University of Houston, Houston, TX |
| 2003 | Visiting Artist, Core Program, Glassell School of Art, Houston |
| 2003 | Visiting Critic Gallery Talks, INOVA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| 2003 | Organizer with Stefano Basilico ”…and Painting” a one-day symposium at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Panel Moderator of “Painting as Social Practice” with Laura Owns, Gaylen Gerber, Lane Relyea and Scott Reeder |
| 2003 | Gallery 16 Talk to CCA Graduate Students, San Francisco, CA |
| 2003 | Visiting Artist/Lecture Victoria College of Art, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2003 | Visiting Artist/Lecture, California Institute of Art, Valencia, CA |
| 2003 | Curator “A Drop in Mercury,” The Bower, San Antonio, TX |
| 2002 | Panel Participant, “Curating Now: Matthew Higgs, Lars Bang Larsen, Fred Wilson, Michelle Grabner,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
| 2002 | Panel Participant, Chicago Cultural Center, “Artist at Work Forum” |
| 2002 | Originator of “A Particular Place and Time: East Village in the 80s” The School of the Art Institute, Visiting Artist Lecture Series Fall 2002 including David Robbins, Rene Ricard, Jeffrey Deitch, Arto Lindsey and others, Chicago, IL |
| 2002 | Visiting Artist, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA |
| 2002 | Curator “Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art,” Rocket Gallery, London, In Conjunction with the Tate Modern Matisse Exhibition and Symposium |
| 2002 | Visiting Artist, Fibers Department, Cranbrook Academy of Art |
| 2002 | Visiting Artist, Photography, Cleveland Institute of Art, Spring Semester |
| 2002 | Visiting Artist, University of Chicago, IL, Winter Quarter |
| 2002 | Visiting Artist, University of Southern Illinois, IL, February |
| 2002 | Visiting Artist, University of Minnesota-Duluth, MN, February |
| 2001 | Visiting Artist, Goldsmith, London |
| 2001 | Visiting Artist, California Institute of Arts, Valencia, CA, November |
| 2001 | Visiting Artist, Glassell, Museum of Fine Arts Core Program, Houston, TX, April |
| 2001 | Visiting Critic, Jerome Fellowship Program, Minneapolis, MN, May |
| 2001 | Selection Committee 2001/2002 McKnight Foundation Fellowship Award, MN |
| 2001 | Visiting Artist, Akademie Der Bildenden Kunste Munchen, Germany, Summer |
| 2001 | Visiting Artist, Kuvataideakatemia, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland |
| 2001 | Visiting Artist, The University of Houston, TX, April |
| 2001 | Visiting Artist, Cardinal Stritch College, Milwaukee WI, March |
| 2000 | Critique Moderator, Graduate Open Critique, SAIC, March |
| 2000 | Wisconsin Percent-for-Art Selection Committee, UW School of Medicine Bldg. |
| 2000 | Essayist, McKnight Foundation Fellowship Exhibition Catalogue, MN |
| 2000 | Panelist, The Art of Miriam Schapio, Museum of American Art, St.Paul |
| 2000 | Curated “Hardware in the Heartland” 16 Beaver Street Project, NYC |
| 2000 | Visiting Critic, McKnight Foundation Fellowship Program, Minneapolis |
| 2000 | Visiting Critic, MCAD/Jerome Fellowship, Minneapolis |
| 2000 | Organizer of “Painting Symposium 2000,” School of the Art Institute, Chicago |
| 2000 | Visiting Artist, Royal Academy of Art, Denmark, November |
| 2000 | Panelist, moderator John Brunetti, “Out of Line” exhibition, Chicago Cultural Center, July |
| 2000 | Participant in The Wisconsin Sesquicentennial Portfolio, Andrew Balkin Editions |
| 2000 | Visiting Artist, University of California–Irvine, February |
| 2000 | Visiting Artist, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, May |
| 1999 | Visiting Artist, University of Chicago MFA Program, November-December |
| 1999 | Juror, Student Exhibition, DePaul University, May |
| 1999 | Visiting Artist, DePaul University, IL, March |
| 1999 | Visiting Artist, Panel Discussion: Post Hypnotic, Illinois State University, January |
| 1999 | Visiting Artist Lecture Milwaukee Art Museum, February |
| 1999 | Artist Talk, Elvehjem Museum of Art, February |
| 1999 | Lecture on Tactia Dean, Madison Art Center, April |
| 1999 | Lecture to Docents on Faculty Exhibition, Elvehjem Museum of Art, February |
| 1999 | Lecture, Hell Bound Pineapple Student group, UW-Madison, Spring |
| 1998 | Visiting Artist, University of Chicago MFA Program, February-March |
| 1998 | Visiting Critic, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
| 1998 | Visiting Critic, University of Illinois at Chicago Spring Critiques, IL |
| 1998 | Visiting Artist, Mills College, San Francisco, CA |
| 1998 | Guest Curator, MFA Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, MI |
| 1998 | Visiting Artist, Northwestern University |
| 1998 | Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute, Spring Critiques, Chicago, IL |
| 1998 | Artist Lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Installation Seminar |
| 1997 | Visiting Artist, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO |
| 1997 | Visiting Critic, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1997 | Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute, Writing Program, Chicago, IL |
| 1997 | Visiting Critic, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI |
| 1997 | Visiting Artist, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA |
| 1997 | Visiting Artist, Graduate Critiques, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 1997 | Guest Editor, February/March Issue of Art Muscle, “Focus: LA” Milwaukee, WI |
| 1997 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Women’s Studies, Department of Art, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| 1997 | Exhibition Reviewer, Madison Art Center, Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission, Madison, WI |
| 1996 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Department of Art, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA |
| 1996 | Visiting Artist Lecture, School of Fine Arts, Department of Art, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| 1996 | Artist Lecture, Department of Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL |
| 1995 | Visiting Artist (Interlink), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
| 1995 | Visiting Artist Lecture, School of Fine Arts, Department of Art, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee |
| 1995 | Guest Editor, October/November Issue of Art Muscle, “The Friendly Village,” Milwaukee, WI |
| 1995 | Evaluation Panel, Milwaukee County Arts Grants, Milwaukee, WI |
| 1994 | Contributing Editor, New Art Examiner, Chicago, IL |
| 1994 | Panel Chair, Milwaukee County Individual Artist Fellowships evaluation panel, Milwaukee, WI |
| 1994 | Visiting Artist, MIAD Department of Fine Arts, Senior Photography Milwaukee, WI |
| 1993-1995 | Visual Arts Critic, Milwaukee Magazine, Milwaukee, WI (see reviews and previews starting in October 1993) |
| 1993-1995 | Board Member, City of Milwaukee Public Arts Board, WI |
| 1993 | Juror, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alumni Exhibition |
| 1990 | Artist in Residence, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI |
| 1989-1992 | Chicago Reviews Correspondent, Art Muscle: A Bi-monthly Publication of the Arts, Milwaukee, WI |
| 1988-1989 | Faculty Development Program Participant, University College, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL |
| 1988 | Teaching Assistant, Northwestern University, Department of Art Theory and Practice |
| 1987 | Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Art History |
| 1987 | Curatorial Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Art Museum |