professional activities

MICHELLE GRABNER

Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin (1962)
Lives and works in Milwaukee, WI; Chicago, IL; and Waupaca County, WI

EDUCATION

1990	M.F.A. Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University
1987	M.A. Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Thesis: “Postmodernism: A Spectacle of Reflexivity”
1984	B.F.A. Painting and Drawing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

TEACHING

1996-Present	Crown Family Professor in Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2020-Present, 2009-2013	Chair / Co-Chair, Department of Painting and Drawing, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2014, 2016	Faculty, Bard MFA Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts: Painting
2015	Resident Faculty, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2011-2014	Visiting Professor/Core Critic Painting and Printmaking, School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2011-2013	Senior Critic, University of Pennsylvania, Fine Arts Department, Philadelphia, PA
1998-1999	Visiting Critic, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1997-2003	Associate Professor, Department of Art, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

CO-DIRECTOR: THE SUBURBAN

1999-Present	Oak Park, IL (1999-2015) and Milwaukee, WI (2015-Present)
	http://www.thesuburban.org/

CO-DIRECTOR: THE POOR FARM

2009-Present	non-profit exhibition and project space at The Waupaca County Poor Farm, WI
	https://poorfarmexperiment.org/

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

2018	FRONT International: An American City, Inaugural Triennial Exhibition in Cleveland, Akron, and Oberlin, OH

CURATOR

2016	PORTLAND BIENNIAL: a state-based biennial with exhibitions sites throughout the state of Oregon.

CO-CURATOR

2014	WHITNEY BIENNIAL: Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC

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
2018-Present	Sculpture Milwaukee Board Member
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
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

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

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

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
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, CN
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

EXHIBITIONS CO-CURATED WITH BRAD KILLAM

2002	Ideal Avalanche, POND, Chicago, May 2002 (exhibition catalog)
2000	Nader for President Artist Poster Designs, Monk Parakeet, Chicago, IL
1998	Bicycle Thieves, Chicago and Milwaukee, multiple sites curated with Lars Bang Larsen and Jacob Fabricius (exhibition catalog)
1998	The Harry Carey Show, Diverse Works, Houston, TX
1997	Palace, Beret International Gallery, Chicago, IL and Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
1996	SPF 10, Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
1995	The Friendly Village, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
1995	Stationwagon, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, WI
1994	Amenities, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
1993	Parabolic Matter, Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE 2014 WHITNEY BIENNIAL

Carol Vogel, “State of Our Art, According to the Whitney: A Guide to the 2014 Whitney Museum Biennial,” New York Times, February 28, 2014
Felicia Lee, “Singular Art, Made by Plurals, New York Times, February 22, 2014
Ted Loos, Woman Painters in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Vogue, March 2014
Ted Loos “A Biennial in the Making Biennial,” Sotheby’s Magazine, February 7, 2014
The New Yorker, Winter Preview, November 18, 2013
Carol Vogel, The 2014 Whitney Biennial is Taking Shape, New York Times, November 14, 2013
Jason Foumberg, “Artist Ascending: Chicago responds to Michelle Grabner’s appointment as 2014 Whitney Biennial Co-Curator,” New City, December 2, 2012
Lauren Weinberg, “Michelle Grabner named Whitney Co-curator, Chicago Time Out, Dec 5, 2012
Mary Louise Schumacher, “Michelle Grabner named curator of Whitney Biennial,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 29, 2012
Angela McManaman, “Many Curators are Called,” UWM Alumni Magazine, Spring p. 22-23
Carol Vogel, “For the Whitney Biennial, One show, Three Visions,” New York Times, November 30, 2012

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR FRONT INTERNATIONAL 2018