13 Facts About Michelle Grabner

Michelle Grabner is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has taught since 1996.

Michelle Grabner 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 and in 2019, she was named a 2019 National Academy of Design's Academician, a lifetime honor.

In 2021, Michelle Grabner was named a Guggenheim Fellow by The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

In 2024 Michelle Grabner was inducted into the Wisconsin Academy of Art and Science.

Michelle Grabner is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has been teaching since 1996.

Michelle Grabner's work has been commissioned by the Art Preserve, John Michel Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI; the Columbus Public Library, Dublin Branch, OH; and Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee WI.

Michelle Grabner's work has been included in group exhibitions at Gallery Gisela Clement, Bonn, Germany; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; La Mama Galleria, New York; and PS, Amsterdam, Netherlands among many others.

Michelle Grabner is a National Academician at the National Academy of Design; a Lifetime Distinguished Artist at the Union League Club of Chicago; a Trustee and member of the Acquisition Committee, Milwaukee Art Museum; holds a seat on the advisory Committee of the CUE Foundation New York; is a member of the International Association of Art Critics; and an Artist Pension and Trust Participant.

Michelle Grabner co-curated the 2014 Whitney Museum Biennial and curated the 2016 Portland Biennial.

Michelle Grabner's reviews are regularly published in X-tra, New City.

In 2010, Mary Jane Jacob and Michelle Grabner co-edited THE STUDIO READER, published by the University of Chicago Press.

In 2018, Michelle Grabner edited An American City: Front International, a two-volume exhibition catalog published by the Cleveland Museum of Art.