Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin (1962)
Lives and works in Oak Park, IL
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2012
Cottage Works, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
MICHELLE GRABNER: THE INOVA SURVEY, INOVA, The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Black Swan, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL
Oshkosh, PS, Amsterdam
2011
Like a Rare Morel, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
2010
I speak now from the aesthetic and artistic point of view when I say that life with Michelle Grabner is dull. Leo Koenig Projekte, New York
FLAPJACK, Rocket, London
Get Better Mrs. Michelle, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NYC
Chaos is rigidly structured in this chapter, Peregrine Program, Chicago
2009
Silverpoints with Guest Mobile, Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, WI
SILVERPOINTS, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
ROUND SILVERPOINTS, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL
2008
SILVERPOINTS, PS, Amsterdam
Remain in Light, survey exhibition, Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS (exhibition catalogue)
New Bedford Art Museum, Vault Series, New Bedford, MASS
2007
Michelle Grabner’s Never Quite Happy Home, Southfirst, Brooklyn
Please Return My Kenneth Noland Catalogue, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
Please Return My Kenneth Noland Catalogue PS, Amsterdam
Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
Michelle Grabner, 809 Calgary, Canada
Remain in Light, survey exhibition, Wriston Art Center, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
2006
1996-2006, Rocket, London, UK
Remain in Light, survey exhibition, University Galleries, Illinois State University
2005
Project Room, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago
2004
Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston
2003
Rocket, London, UK
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
2001
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Ten in One Gallery, New York (exhibition catalogue)
A Little Less of Me Deluxe Projects, Chicago
Ten in One Gallery: Project Space, New York
2000
Suburban Abstraction, Rocket, London, UK
Ten in One Gallery, New York
1999
In Situ, Aalst, Belgium
Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Paintings for Modern Chairs, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1998
Home Painting, Rocket, London, UK (exhibition catalogue)
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Fuzzy, ICA, Portland, ME
Safety Patterns, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Safety Patterns, Rocket, London, UK
1997
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
INOVA (Institute of Visual Arts), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI
1996
Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Les Détours de l’abstraction, MUDAM, Luxembourg
The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, UK
TIME, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, CH
Ongoing Minimalism (Stefan Eberstadt, Michelle Grabner, Ditty Ketting, Will Taylor, Lars Wolter), Rocket, London
MINUS SPACE: Editions & Multiples, curated by Matthew Deleget & Emi Winter, Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
Did You See Heaven, Peregrine Program, Chicago
First Love, O’Connor Gallery, Dominican University, River Forrest, IL
Table Top Show, curated by Sun Yu Open Space, Long Island City, NY
Endless, PLUG PROJECTS, Kansas City, MO
Total RECALLl, two-person exhibition with Brad Killam, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Critology, Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University, NC and California State,
University Los Angeles Art Galleries, LA
2011
A Painting Show, curated by Laura Raicovich and Jessie Washburne-Harris, Harris Lieberman, NYC
The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now,” Tate St. Ives, UK
Women and Weaving: Polly Apfelbaum and Ariel Dill, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NYC
Handler (a series of collaborative figurative sculptures presented by John Riepenhoff, featuring the paintings of Peter Barrickman,
Michelle Grabner, Nicholas Frank, Jose Lerma, Scott Reeder and Tyson Reeder, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
DING DONG, a collaboration with Brad Killam, Terrain, Oak Park, IL
Museum of Milwaukee Art, Green Gallery at 47 Canal, NYC
Dressing the Monument, curated by John Riepenhoff and Piper Marshall, Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee
KISS: New Sincerity & New Romaticism in Art, Clara M Eagale Gallery, Murray State, Kentucky
A Shot in the Dark, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
SCULPTURE GARDEN/PAINTING SHOW, curated by Andrew Greene, Iceberg Projects, Chicago
Ways of Making: Work on Paper, Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University, IL
Michelle Grabner and Sarah Blyth-Stephens, U.turn Art Space, Cincinnati
MARKED, Kittridge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Washington
Unfinished Paintings: Unresolved Work by 40 Contemporary Artists, LACE, Los Angeles
Between This Light and That Space, MINUS SPACE, curated by Doug Melini, Brooklyn
Free Range-Painting and the University of Pennsylvania, Morgan Gallery, University of Philadelphia
2010
Collaborating with Michelle Grabner isn’t as much fun as you might think it is, Gallery 16, San Francisco (two-person show with Brad Killam)
Michelle Grabner and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich
The Elegant Drawing Show, Drive-By, Boston, MA
Ornament and Crime (and Crime), Adds Donna, Chicago
UND#6, Schwartz Gallery, London
Newtonland: Orbits, Ellipses and other Planes of Activity, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
Mother, NYU Steinhardt Commons Gallery, NYC
Art Scout, Arlington Art Center, Arlington VA
Borderland Abstraction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
Don’t Piss on Me and Tell Me it’s Raining, curated by Bad at Sports, Apex Art, NY
Emerging from a New Known, New York, NY; curated by Douglas Melini
On Painting, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble, La Station, Nice, France
2009
Halbjahresgaben, Tanzschule, Munch, Germany
SUBVISION, Hamburg, Germany
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Open House For Butterflies, MINUS SPACE Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
PS, The Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Inverness, Scotland
Because the Night, curated by Sabina Ott, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Los Angeles
Wallgasm, Anstrom Gallery, LA
Let’s Leave It at That…, Gallery 16, San Francisco
of or related to the sky or visible heavens, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
De-Centered Practice, curated by Jennifer Dudley, Ethan Greenbaum, Colleen Asper, Circus Gallery, LA
PS 1999-2009, Kunstruimte09, Groningen, Holland
Trance, Chance, Dreams and the Unconscious, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Presents, curated by Milwaukee International, Rowley Kennerk, Chicago, IL
Sensory Overload: Forces of Light Sound and Motion, The Milwaukee Art Museum
UND CROXHAPOX, Ghent, Belgium
NOLEFTOVERS, Kunsthalle, Bern Switzerland
These Are The People In Your Neighborhood, Gallery 16, San Francisco
2007
Maximinimalist, INOVA, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Fast Forward: The School of the Art Institute in the 21st Century, Rockfort Art Museum, IL
2006
Eldorado: with Gaylen Gerber, Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Figures in the Field, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Outside Europe: From the Daimler art Collection, Stadtgalerie, Keil, Germany
The Believers, Franklin Hudson Gallery, New York, NY
Strange Days, Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainsville, FL
Slowness, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005
There’s a City in My Mind, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY
Summer Show, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid
Group Show, Marlborough Gallery Chelsea, New York
Op-ish, Sampson Projects, Boston
Good Vibrations, McKenzie Fine Art, New York
Rocket at Paragraph, Paragraph, Kansas City
Slow Down, University of Texas at Tyler, TX
2004
Minimalism and After III, DaimlerChrysler AG, Berlin
Group Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, NYC
Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Hubris, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Agnes Martin, Cheonae Kim, Michelle Grabner, Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL
Strange Days, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Apartment Series #4: A component of Jeremy Boyle’s exhibition, Mattress Factory, PA
Books and Shelves, Gahlsberg Art Gallery, College of DuPage, IL
Summer Group Show, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago
2003
Michelle Grabner and Carla Arocha, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Clarity of Vision: Minimalist Prints and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Michelle Grabner and Barbara Heath, Occasional Art, St. Paul, MN
The Undertones, Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY
Oak Park Home Works: Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2002
Pressing, object […], Antwerp, Belgium
Loaded, Midway, Minneapolis, MN
Painting, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI
Home Work, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England
Paper Products, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Works on paper, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2001
Sound Video Images Objects, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Reductive, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio
Domestic Culture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
Counting Color, Rocket Gallery, London, UK
Mary and Leigh Block Museum, Northwestern, Evanston, IL
Armory Show, New York, Ten in One Gallery
Post Hypnotic, (exhibition catalogue): Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida; Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth
2000
Compression, Feigen, Contemporary. New York, NY
What’s New, Lendl Eugen, Graz, Austria
Domestic Bliss, Rocket Gallery, London, UK
OIL, Standard Gallery, Chicago
Factory Soiree, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
Michelle Grabner and Robin Dash, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston
Telesthesia and Amnescopic, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Post Hypnotic, (exhibition catalogue): Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Minimal Pop, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Out of Line, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (exhibition catalogue)
1999
Post Hypnotic, (exhibition catalogue): Illinois State Art Gallery, Bloomington, IL; The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; The MAC Dallas, TX
It Looks Easy, Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago
Abstract Chicago, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
Milwaukee Love, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Color Theory, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN
1998
Michelle Grabner/Jim Isserman, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
A Show, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL
Chicago Hip, Rocket Gallery, London
1997
Uncomfortable Show, TZ Art & Co., New York, NY
Some Young Fun, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Post-Pop, Post-Pictures, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, IL
Distraction, TBA Gallery, Chicago, IL (exhibition catalogue)
Cool Painting, Barat College, Chicago, IL
Wisconsin Art Since 1990: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
1996
Mist: Kay Rosen, Julia Fish, Carla Priess and Michelle Grabner, Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI (exhibition catalogue)
1995
25 Americans: Paintings in the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI (exhibition catalogue)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
"In Conversation: Michelle Grabner and Barry Schwabsky,” (cover image) The Brooklyn Rail, March 2012, pp. 24-27
Oliveria, Filipa, “The Indiscipline of Painting,” Artforum.com, 2012
Schumacher, Mary Louise, Michelle Grabner at the Green Gallery, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Feb. 24, 2012
Moriarty, Judith Ann, “Michelle Grabner: Homespun Sophistication,” ThirdCoast Digest, January 24, 2012
Martin Clark (Editor), Sarah Shalgosky (Editor), Daniel Sturgis (Editor), The Indiscipline of Painting, Tate Publishing, October 1, 2011
Moriarty, Judith Ann, “Michelle Grabner: Homespun Sophistication,” ThirdCoast Digest, January 24, 2012
Boucher, Brian, “New York Gets Green, Milwaukee Style,” Art in America Review, August 18, 2011
Women and Weaving, Southfirst, The New Yorker, July 15, 2011
Schmerler, Sarah, “Between This Light and That Space,” Time Out New York, July, 11, 2011
Canevet, Rozenn, “Chicago City Report, Art Press, July 2011, pp. 88-89
Cheh, Carol, “Lace’s ‘Unfinished Paintings’ show Asks the Question: What Makes a Painting Unfinished,” LA Weekly, June 22, 2011
Waxman, Lori, “An Alternative to Summer Reading List,” Chicago Tribune, July 13, 2011
Neff, John, “On Chicago Abstraction: A Series,” New American Painting / Blog February 17, 2011
Baker, Kenneth, Where collaboration Ends, San Francisco Chronicle, December 11, 2010
Vanderhyden, Philip. The Secret of My Success, Lobby catalogue, College of DuPage, 2010
Saltz, Jerry, “Critics Pick” New York Magazine, May 2010
Heti, Shelia, The Studio Reader, Bookforum, May 25, 2010
Viera, Lauren, “Suburban Makes Its Mark on Urban Scene,” Chicago Tribune, Sept. 12, 2010
Sam, Sherman, Kultureflash, June 10, 2010
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Claudine Ise talks with Michelle Grabner about The Suburban, Art21.org, June 2010
“The Pragmatist: Michelle Grabner interviewed by Saul Ostrow,” Art in America, March 2010
Bad at Sports podcast with Annika Marie, Richard Holland and Duncan McKenzie (episode 232), 2010
Weinberg, Lauren, “Constellations at the MCA,” Art News, December 2009
Velez, Pedro, “Chicago Build Up,” Artnet, March 2009
Cozzone, Francesca, “Attempting the Impossible,” The Leader, March 26, 2009
Marie, Annika, “Michelle Grabner’s Black Circle Paintings,” catalogue essay, 2009
Elms, Anthony, “Michelle Grabner/The Suburban,” Modern Painters, March 2008
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Marple, Mieke, “Interview with Michelle Grabner,” The Highlights, March 2009
Rosen, Kay, ArtForum, Top 10 April 2007.
Nicholas Frank, “Paper Thin and Maximinimalism,” Catalogue essay, INOVA 2007
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Vogt, Jess, “The Suburb,” The Lawrentian, Appleton, WI, January 2007
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Artner, Alan, “Grabner’s Solo Show Reveals Pop Influences,” Chicago Tribune, January 19, 2007
Bad at Sports podcast with Gaylen Gerber and Duncan McKenzie (episode 93), 2007
Weinberg, Lauren, Michelle Grabner at Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago TimeOut, January 25-31, 2007, p. 67.
Schwabsky, Barry, “Michelle Grabner at Rocket” Artforum, fall 2006
Wayne Roosa, “The Pleasures of Merely Circulating,” exhibition catalogue, 2006
Timeout, London, August 10, 2006
Hoare, Lottie, “1996-2006 Michelle Grabner Paintings,” exhibition catalogue, Rocket Gallery, London
Bredin, Lucinda, The Week, London, July 22, 2006
Myers, Terry, “Time is on Our Side,” exhibition essay, Slowness, Heaven gallery, 2006
Bad at Sports podcast with Richard Holland and Duncan McKenzie, 2005 and 2006
Arney, Steve, “Art for the Artist,” The Pantagraph, March 2006
Rubi, Amalia, USA Hoy Pintura y escutura Norte Americana, El Punto, Julio 2005
Artner, Alan, Michelle Grabner at Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago Tribune, May 20, 2005
Ott, Sabina, “Michelle Grabner at Wendy Cooper” Stretcher, 2005
Seidel, Florian, Bauwelt, September 2004
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Miles, Christopher, “Tracking Patterns, Report from Santa Monica II,” Art in America, February 2004, p. 80.
Van Proyen, Mark “Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam’” Gallery 16” Art in America, October 2003 pp. 144-145.
Kirk, Sarah, “The Path of Minimalism,” Milwaukee Art Museum Publication, 2003
Van Dyke, Aaron, “The Good, The Bad, and The Beautiful,” Occasional Art Publication, 2003
Stein, Lisa, “Artist Profile,” Chicago Tribune, May 26, 2002
Artner, Alan “Paper Exhibition Breaks Out into a New Dimension” Chicago Tribune, March 21, 2002
Levin, Kim, Michelle Grabner, Village Voice, November 20, 2001
Thompson, Nato, “Michelle Grabner” FGA, 2001
Dailey, Meghan Michelle Grabner, Time Out New York, November 20 – December 6, 2001
Campbell, Shane, “Sweetness and Light,” catalogue essay, 2001
Frank, Nicholas, “Over The Rainbow: A Survey of Goodness,” catalogue essay, 2001
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Miller, Cliff, “Sesquicentennial Art Show Bear's Appleton's Signature: Prosse, Grabner Play Prominent Roles,” Appleton Post-Crescent, December 3, 1998
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Luxemburg
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Artist Pension and Trust participant since 2004
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