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Michelle Grabner
(
American
, born 1962)
Michelle Grabner
Black gesso and silverpoint on panel,
2016
Price on Request
Biography
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1962
Born in Oshkosh, WI, USA
1984
B.F.A. Painting and Drawing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
1987
M.A. Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
1990
M.F.A. Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University, USA
Lives and works in Oak Park, IL, USA
Exhibitions
2013
The White Album, Kate Werble Gallery, NEW YORK, NY, USA
Faux Life, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Work, organized by Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY, USA
To Pack and Wear, Kate Werble Gallery, NEW YORK, NY, USA
Group show curated by Shane Campbell, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Italy
DRAFT, Autumn Space, Chicago, IL, USA
Brendan Fowler, Michelle Grabner, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL, USA (solo)
Shane Campbell Gallery, Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL, USA (solo)
Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA (solo)
On the Grid, curated ny Sima Familart, Lu Magnus, New York, NY, USA
Inaugural Exhibition, Museum of Wisconsin, West Bend, WI, USA
Point of Departure, The Arcade, Columbia College, Chicago, USA
Compilation | painting, photography, sculpture, Rocket, London, GB
Selected Works, Southfirst, Brooklyn, USA
19516 kilometers from Milwaukee or 12126 miles, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, JP
PS, Galerie Ruth Leuchter, Dusseldorf, DE
Spectator Sports, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL, USA
Buzz, curated by Vik Muniz, Nara Roesler, Sao Paolo, BR
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, curated by David Norr (exhibition catalogue). Autumn Space, Chicago, IL, USA (solo)
First Love, O’Connor Gallery, Dominican University, River Forrest, IL, USA
Tops, curated by Sun Yu, Open Space, Long Island City, NY, USA
Endless, PLUG PROJECTS, Kansas City, MO, USA
University Los Angeles Art Galleries, CA, USA
THE, Alternative Projects, Milwaukee, WI, USA
University Los Angeles Art Galleries, CA, USA
MINUS SPACE: Editions & Multiples, curated by Matthew Deleget & Emi Winter, Instituto de Artes, Gráficas de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, UK
Total RECALL, two-person exhibition with Brad Killam, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA
Ongoing Minimalism (Stefan Eberstadt, Michelle Grabner, Ditty Ketting, Will Taylor, Lars Wolter), Rocket, London, UK
Critology, Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University, NC and California State, USA
The Indiscpline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, UK
Did You See Heaven, Peregrine Program, Chicago, IL , USA
THE, Alternative Projects, Milwaukee, WI, USA
TIME, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, CH
Land of the Seven Moles, PS, Amsterdam, NL
Neither Here Nor There But Anywhere, MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, USA
2012
Chris Bradley, Michelle Grabner, Suzanne McClelland, Amanda Ross-Ho, Lisa Williamson, Shane Campbell Gallery: Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL, USA
Time Flies: 2 Years at Drive-By, BK Projects, Boston, MA, USA
Land of the Seven Moles, PS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Les Détours de l’abstraction, MUDAM, Luxembourg
TIME, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Oshkosh, PS; Amsterdam, The Netherlands
30/30 Archive Project, CNOA, Paris, France
MICHELLE GRABNER: THE INOVA SURVEY, curated by John Riepenhoff, INOVA, The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA (solo)
Against New York, Galleri Kant, Copenhagen, DK (solo)
Black Swan, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL, USA (solo)
Lucie Fontaine: Estate, Marianne Boesky Gallery, 64th Street, New York NY, USA
More and Different Flags, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY, USA
Cottage Works, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, USA (solo)
Free Range-Painting and the University of Pennsylvania, Morgan Gallery, University of Philadelphia, PA, USA (solo)
Like a Rare Morel, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA (solo)
The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now,” Tate St. Ives, UK
Women and Weaving, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY, USA
KISS: New Sincerity & New Romaticism in Art, Clara M Eagale Gallery, Murray State, KY, USA
MARKED, Kittridge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Puget Sound, WA, USA
Michelle Grabner and Sarah Blyth-Stephens, U.turn Art Space, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Between This Light and That Space, Minus Space, curated by Doug Meilini, New York, NY USA
SPUR, STRUKTUR..., Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, AT
Between This Light and That Space, MINUS SPACE, curated by Doug Melini, Brooklyn, NY, USA (solo)
A Shot in the Dark, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Unfinished Paintings: Unresolved Work by 40 Contemporary Artists, LACE, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now,” Tate St. Ives, UK, USA (solo)
Michelle Grabner and Sarah Blyth-Stephens, U.turn Art Space, Cincinnati, OH, USA (solo)
Ways of Making: Work on Paper, Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University, IL, USA (solo)
SCULPTURE GARDEN/PAINTING SHOW, curated by Andrew Greene, Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL, USA (solo)
A Shot in the Dark, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA (solo)
KISS: New Sincerity & New Romanticism in Art, Clara M Eagale Gallery, Murray State, Kentucky, USA (solo)
Dressing the Monument, curated by John Riepenhoff and Piper Marshall, Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee, WI, USA (solo)
Museum of Milwaukee Art, Green Gallery at 47 Canal, New York, NY, USA (solo)
DING DONG, a collaboration with Brad Killam, Terrain, Oak Park, IL, USA (solo)
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, USA (solo)
Women and Weaving: Polly Apfelbaum and Ariel Dill, Southfirst, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA (solo)
2011
A Painting Show, curated by Laura Raicovich and Jessie Washburne-Harris, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY, USA (solo)
MARKED, Kittridge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Washington, USA (solo)
My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble, La Station, Nice, France
On Painting, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL, USA
Borderland Abstraction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, USA
Mother, NYU Steinhardt Commons Gallery,, New York, NY, USA
Emerging from a New Known, NO LONGER EMPTY, New York, NY, USA
FLAPJACK, Rocket, London, UK (cat.)
Works on Paper, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA (solo)
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, NY, USA (solo)
2010
Michelle Grabner, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe (two person show) Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Newtonland: Orbits, Ellipses and other Planes of Activity, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO, USA
ROUND SILVERPOINTS, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL, USA (solo)
SILVERPOINTS, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA (solo)
Silverpoints with Guest Mobile, Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, WI, USA (solo)
Trance, Chance, Dreams and the Unconscious, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY, USA
PS 1999-2009, Kunstruimte09, Groningen, Netherlands
De-Centered Practice, curated by Jennifer Dudley, Ethan Greenbaum, Colleen Asper, Circus Gallery, LA, USA
of or related to the sky or visible heavens, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL, USA
Wallgasm, Anstrom Gallery, LA, USA
Because the Night, curated by Sabina Ott, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College Los Angeles, CA, USA
PS, The Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Inverness, Scotland
Open House For Butterflies, MINUS SPACE Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
SUBVISION, Hamburg, Germany
2009
Halbjahresgaben, Tanzschule, Munich, Germany
Let’s Leave It at That…Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, USA
NOLEFTOVERS, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
These Are The People In Your Neighborhood, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, USA
Sensory Overload: Forces of Light Sound and Motion,” The Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, USA
UND, CROXHAPOX, Ghent, Belgium
New Bedford Art Museum, Vault Series, New Bedford, MA, USA (solo)
Presents, curated by Milwaukee International, Rowley Kennerk, Chicago, IL, USA
Remain in Light, survey exhibition, Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS (exhibition catalogue) (solo)
2008
SILVERPOINTS, PS, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2007
Maximinimalist,INOVA, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, USA
Fast Forward: The School of the Art Institute in the 21st Century, Rockfort Art Museum, IL, USA
Michelle Grabner’s Never Quite Happy Home, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY USA (solo)
Please Return My Kenneth Noland Catalogue, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA (solo)
Please Return My Kenneth Noland Catalogue PS, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)
Michelle Grabner, 809 Calgary, CA, USA (solo)
Remain in Light, survey exhibition, Wriston Art Center, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, USA (solo)
Slowness, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Strange Days, Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainsville, FL, USA
The Believers,Franklin Hudson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Outside Europe: From the Daimler art Collection, Stadtgalerie, Keil, Germany
Eldorado: with Gaylen Gerber, Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Remain in Light, survey exhibition, University Galleries, Illinois State University, USA (solo)
2006
1996-2006, Rocket Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Figures in the Field, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Good Vibrations, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
2005
There’s a City in My Mind, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Summer Show, Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Group Show, Marlborough Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY, USA
Op-ish, Sampson Projects, Boston, MA, USA
Rocket at Paragraph, Paragraph, Kansas City, KS USA
Slow Down University of Texas at Tyler, TX, USA
Project Room, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA (solo)
Apartment Series #4: A component of Jeremy Boyle’s exhibition, Mattress Factory, PA, USA
Strange Days, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Summer Group Show, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Books and Shelves, Gahlsberg Art Gallery, College of DuPage, IL, USA
Agnes Martin, Cheonae Kim, Michelle Grabner, Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2004
Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA, USA (solo)
Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
Group Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Minimalism and After III, DaimlerChrysler AG, Berlin, Germany
Hubris, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, USA
2003
Michelle Grabner and Carla Arocha, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Clarity of Vision: Minimalist Prints and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, USA
Michelle Grabner and Barbara Heath, Occasional Art, St. Paul, MN, USA
The Undertones, Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Oak Park Home Works: Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, USA
Rocket Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
Works on paper, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Paper Products, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, USA
Home Work, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2002
Pressing, object […], Antwerp, Belgium
Loaded, Midway, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Painting, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI, USA
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, USA
A Little Less of Me Deluxe Projects, Chicago, IL, USA (solo)
Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY, USA (exhibition catalogue) (solo)
Ten in One Gallery: Project Space, New York, NY, USA (solo)
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA (solo)
Post Hypnotic, (exhibition catalogue): Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL, USA;
Domestic Culture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, USA
Mary and Leigh Block Museum, Northwestern, Evanston, IL, USA
Counting Color, Rocket Gallery, London, UK
Reductive, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX, USA
2001
Sound Video Images Objects, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Armory Show, New York, NY, USA (Ten in One Gallery)
Minimal Pop, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA, USA
Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
Post Hypnotic, (exhibition catalogue): Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Michelle Grabner and Robin Dash, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Factory Soiree, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
OIL, Standard Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Telesthesia and Amnescopic, Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chciago, Illinois, USA
What’s New, Lendl Eugen, Graz, AT
Compression, Feigen, Contemporary. New York, NY, USA
Out of Line, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, USA (exhibition catalogue)
Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
2000
Suburban Abstraction, Rocket, London, UK (solo)
Domestic Bliss, Rocket Gallery, London, UK
Paintings for Modern Chairs, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA (solo)
Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, USA (solo)
Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA (solo)
In Situ, Aalst, Belgium (solo)
1999
Post Hypnotic, (exhibition catalogue): Illinois State Art Gallery, Bloomington, IL, USA
The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA; The MAC Dallas, TX, USA
Milwaukee Love, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, USA
Chicago Hip, Rocket Gallery, London, UK
A Show, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Michelle Grabner/Jim Isserman, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, USA
Color Theory, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN, USA
Abstract Chicago, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, USA
1998
Home Painting, Rocket Gallery, London, UK (exhibition catalogue) (solo)
Safety Patterns, Rocket Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Safety Patterns, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA (solo)
Fuzzy, ICA, Portland, ME, USA (solo)
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA (solo)
It Looks Easy, Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago, IL, USA
INOVA (Institute of Visual Arts), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, USA (solo)
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA (solo)
Wisconsin Art Since 1990: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, USA
Cool Painting, Barat College, Chicago, IL, USA
Distraction, TBA Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA (exhibition catalogue)
Some Young Fun, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
1997
Uncomfortable Show, TZ Art & Co., New York, NY, USA
Post-Pop, Post-Pictures, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, IL, USA
Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, USA (exhibition catalogue)
1996
Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA (solo)
Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, USA (solo)
Mist: Kay Rosen, Julia Fish, Carla Priess and Michelle Grabner, Hermetic Gallery Milwaukee, WI, USA
1995
25 Americans: Paintings in the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, USA (exhibition catalogue) (solo)
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