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

2016
Michelle Grabner, James Cohan, New York, NY

Michelle Grabner, Gallery16, San Francisco, CA

Michelle Grabner: Northwest Work, Hedreen Gallery at Seattle University, Seattle, WA

2015
Michelle Grabner: Paintings and Bronze Casts, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

Michelle Grabner: Gingham, Rocket Gallery, London, England

Weaving Life Into Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Curated by Tricia Park, Indianapolis, IN

2014
James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel, Switzerland

Brett Shaheen: Modern and Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

2013
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, curated by David Norr (exhibition catalogue)

Autumn Space, Chicago, IL

Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL

Shane Campbell Gallery, Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL

Brendan Fowler, Michelle Grabner, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL

2012
Cottage Works, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

Michelle Grabner: The Inova Survey, curated by John Riepenhoff, Inova, The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Against New York, Galleri Kant, Copenhagen, Denmark

Black Swan, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL

Oshkosh, PS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2011
Like a Rare Morel, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? Original Jokes about the Suburban and the Poor Farm by the Artists Who Exhibited There, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

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, NY

Flapjack, Rocket, London, UK

Get Better Mrs. Michelle, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY

Chaos is rigidly structured in this chapter, Peregrine Program, Chicago, IL

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, The Netherlands

Remain in Light, survey exhibition, Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS (exhibition catalogue)

New Bedford Art Museum, Vault Series, New Bedford, MA

2007
Michelle Grabner’s Never Quite Happy Home, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY

Please Return My Kenneth Noland Catalogue, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL

Please Return My Kenneth Noland Catalogue, PS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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, Normal, IL

2005
Project Room, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL

2004
Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA

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, IL

Ten in One Gallery: Project Space, New York, NY

2000 

Suburban Abstraction, Rocket, London, UK

Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY

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

2017
99 Cents or Less, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, organized by Jens Hoffmann

Gray Matters: Art en grisaille Curated by Michael Goodson, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

2016
Radical Plastic, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY

Game on! Children’s Museum of Art, New York, NY

It Was Never Linear: Recent Paintings, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE

Group Show, curated by Astri Swendsrud, Eastside International, Los Angeles, CA

Material Considerations, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Living Rooms, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

An Unnamed Need: Pattern and Beauty in Contemporary Art, Leech, Hoffmaster & Kohler Galleries, Lawrence, University, Appleton, WI

Strange Abstraction, Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY

Expanded Fields, Nymphius Projekte, Berlin, Germany

Physical Painting, Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery SUNY, Purchase, NY, curated Jennifer Samet

Condensed Matter Community, Synchrotron Radiation Center: Home of Aladdin, Stoughton, WI

2015
Volta NY, Richard Heller Gallery, New York, NY

Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY

The Works: Artists in and From Chicago, curated by Dieter Roelstraete, Abigail Winograd and Eleonore de Sadeleer, CAB Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium

Color Fields, Bakalar & Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA

Linear Abstraction, Gutstein Gallery, Savannah College of Art Museum, Savannah, GA

Piece by Piece: Building a Collection, the Christy and Bill Gautreaux Collection, Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO

Selections from the Cleve Carney Bequest, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL

Same Difference: Michelle Grabner, Simone Leigh, Russell Maltz, The Art Museum at The University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

2014
Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

Sensitive Instruments, curated by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL

Shakti, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy

Social Goth, Scandinavian Institute, New York, NY

Simplest Means, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, NY

Morning and Evening Asylum, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany (in collaboration with Off Vendome, Dusseldorf, Germany)

Repetitive Motion, curated by Jennifer Samet, Steven Harvey Projects/Projector, New York, NY

30/30 Image Archive Project: A Collective Collection (Edition #4) A|B|C Contemporary, Armin Berger Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

A Pattern Language: Michelle Grabner, Angie Wilson and Lena Wolff, Cult: Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA

Caps for Sale: A Tale of a Peddler, Some Monkeys and Their Monkey Business, The Bike Room, Chicago, IL

Auf Den Punkt, Raum 2810, Bonn, Germany

Division of Labor: Chicago Artist Parents, curated by Christa Donner and Thea Liberty Nichols, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

My Oyster #7: Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam, American University Museum, Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC

My Girl, curated by Luis Maldonado, Port Chester, NY

Rocket Run: Abstraction from Chicago, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE

2013
PAINT OFF, PAINT ON, Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY

Domestic Abstraction: Wendy Edwards and Michelle Grabner, Drive-By, Watertown, MA

Drawing on Habit: An Ambition, curated by Saul Ostrow and Lidija Slavkovic, The Betsey, Miami Beach, FL

Group show curated by Shane Campbell, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, Italy

To Pack and Wear, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY

On the Grid, curated by Sima Familant Lu Magnus, New York, NY

Work, organized by Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY

Faux Life, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Buzz, curated by Vik Muniz, Nara Roesler, Sao Paolo, Brazil

Spectator Sports, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL

PS, Galerie Ruth Leuchter, Dusseldorf, Germany

19516 kilometers from Milwaukee or 12126 miles, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Japan

Selected Works, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY

Compilation | painting, photography, sculpture, Rocket, London, UK

Point of Departure, The Arcade, Columbia College, Chicago, IL

Inaugural Exhibition, Museum of Wisconsin, West Bend, WI

2012
Chris Bradley, Michelle Grabner, Suzanne McClelland, Amanda Ross-Ho, Lisa Williamson, Shane Campbell Gallery: Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL

Lucie Fontaine: Estate, Marianne Boesky Gallery, 64th Street, New York NY

Land of the Seven Moles, PS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Les Détours de l’abstraction, MUDAM, Luxembourg

The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, UK

More and Different Flags, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY

Neither Here Nor There But Anywhere, MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, NY

Time Flies: 2 Years at Drive-By, BK Projects, Boston, MA

Time, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, CH

Ongoing Minimalism (Stefan Eberstadt, Michelle Grabner, Ditty Ketting, Will Taylor, Lars Wolter), Rocket, London, UK

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, IL

First Love, O’Connor Gallery, Dominican University, River Forrest, IL

Tops, curated by Sun Yu, Open Space, Long Island City, NY

Endless, PLUG PROJECTS, Kansas City, MO

Total Recall, two-person exhibition with Brad Killam, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI

Critology, Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center at Western Carolina University, NC and California State, University Los Angeles Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

The, Alternative Projects, Milwaukee, WI

2011

A Painting Show, curated by Laura Raicovich and Jessie Washburne-Harris, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY

The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960’s to Now, Tate, St. Ives, Cornwall, UK

Women and Weaving: Polly Apfelbaum and Ariel Dill, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY

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, New York, NY

Dressing the Monument, curated by John Riepenhoff and Piper Marshall, Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee, WI

Kiss: New Sincerity & New Romanticism in Art, Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray, KY

A Shot in the Dark, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Sculpture Garden/Painting Show, curated by Andrew Greene, Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL

Ways of Making: Work on Paper, Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University, University Park, IL

Michelle Grabner and Sarah Blyth-Stephens, U·turn Art Space, Cincinnati, OH


Marked, Kittridge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA

Unfinished Paintings: Unresolved Work by 40 Contemporary Artists, LACE, Los Angeles, CA


Between This Light and That Space, MINUS SPACE, curated by Doug Melini, Brooklyn, NY

Free Range-Painting and the University of Pennsylvania, Morgan Gallery, University of Philadelphia, PA

2010
Collaborating with Michelle Grabner isn’t as much fun as you might think it is (two-person show with Brad Killam), Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

Michelle Grabner and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

The Elegant Drawing Show, Drive-By, Boston, MA

Ornament and Crime (and Crime), Adds Donna, Chicago, IL

UND#6, Schwartz Gallery, London, UK

Newtonland: Orbits, Ellipses and other Planes of Activity, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO

Mother, NYU Steinhardt Commons Gallery, New York, NY

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, New York, NY

Emerging from a New Known, curated by Douglas Melini, New York, NY

On Painting, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL

My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble, La Station, Nice, France

2009 

Halbjahresgaben, Tanzschule, Munich, Germany

Subvision, Hamburg, Germany

Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

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, CA

Wallgasm, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Let’s Leave it at That…, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

Of or relating to the sky or visible heavens, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

De-Centered Practice, curated by Jennifer Dudley, Ethan Greenbaum, Colleen Asper, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

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, WI

Und Croxhapox, Ghent, Belgium

No Leftovers, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland

These Are The People In Your Neighborhood, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA

2007
Maximinimalist, Inova, The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI

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, IL

Outside Europe: From the Daimler art Collection, Stadtgalerie, Keil, Germany

The Believers, Franklin Hudson Gallery, New York, NY

Strange Days, Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainesville, 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, NY

Op-ish, Sampson Projects, Boston, MA

Good Vibrations, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY

Rocket at Paragraph, Paragraph, Kansas City, MI

Slow Down, University of Texas at Tyler, TX

2004
Minimalism and After III, DaimlerChrysler AG, Berlin

Group Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY

Project, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

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, Pittsburgh, PA

Books and Shelves, Gahlsberg Art Gallery, College of DuPage, IL

Summer Group Show, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL

2003
Michelle Grabner and Carla Arocha, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Clarity of Vision: Minimalist Prints and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 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, TX

Domestic Culture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

Counting Color, Rocket Gallery, London, UK

Mary and Leigh Block Museum, Northwestern, Evanston, IL

Armory Show, Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY

Post Hypnotic (exhibition catalogue), Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL

Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN

2000 

Compression, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY

What’s New, Lendl Eugen, Graz, Austria

Domestic Bliss, Rocket Gallery, London, UK

Oil, Standard Gallery, Chicago, IL

Factory Soiree, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Michelle Grabner and Robin Dash, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA

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 (exhibition catalogue), Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

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, IL

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, UK

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 (exhibition catalogue), TBA Gallery, Chicago, IL

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 (exhibition catalogue), Madison Art Center, Madison, WI

1995 

25 Americans: Paintings in the 90’s (exhibition catalogue), Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

2015
"Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life," Phaidon Press 2015

2014
"I Work From Home," Mousse Publication, edited by David Norr with essays by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, Dan Byers, Rose Bouthillier, Peter Ribic, David Robbins and David Norr

"Element 47: The Art Collection," essays by Barbara Bloemink, Maruand Books

2012
"Michelle Grabner: The INOVA Survey," exhibition catalogue, essays by Nicholas Frank, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Green Gallery Press

2011
"The Indiscipline of Painting," Martin Clark (Editor), Sarah Shalgosky (Editor), Daniel Sturgis (Editor), Tate Publishing, October 1

"On Painting," Poor Farm Press, with an essay by: Ann Craven, Susanna Coffey, Anoka Faruqee, Michelle Grabner, Peter Halley, Thomas Lawson, Judy Ledgerwood, Rebecca Morris, Carrie Moyer, Jon Pestoni, Sabina Ott, Scott Reeder, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung

2010
"No Soul For Sale—A Festival of Independents, The Tate Modern," edited by Cecilia Alemani, Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick, Charley Independents Publication

"These Are The People in Your Neighborhood: Sixteen Years of Gallery 16" essay by Mark Van Proyen

"Can I come Over to Your House: The First Ten Years of the Suburban," Poor Farm Press, with an essay by Michael Newman

"The Studio Reader," The University of Chicago Press edited by Mary Jane Jacob and Michelle Grabner, Introduction by Michelle Grabner

"There are many things in the air and all of them are for free," Poor Farm Press, with an essay by Nicholas Frank

2009
"Michelle Grabner’s Black Circle Paintings," Poor Farm Press, with an essay by Annika Marie

2008
"Remain in Light," Illinois State University, with essays by Lane Relyea and Peter Ribic

2007
"Minimalism and After," Hatje Cantz essay by Renate Wieghager, Claudia Kleinbub, Friederike Nymphius, Rudolf Scheutle and Claudia Seidel

2003
"The Suburban: The Early Years," self-published, with essays by Nicholas Frank, Matthew Higgs, and Peter Ribic

2001
"Sweetness and Light," self-published, with essays by Shane Campbell and Nicholas Frank

"Charley 01," edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Charley Independents Publication

1999
"Post-Hypnotic," Illinois State University Press, with essays by Dave Hickey, Barry Blinderman, Peter Halley and Tom Moody

"Home Painting," published by Rocket Gallery, London, with an essay by Jerome Sans

1997
"If Walls Could Talk," published by Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, with an essay by Nicholas Frank

1995
"25 Americans: Painting in the 90s," Milwaukee Art Museum, with an essay by Dean Sobel

2017
Adamson, Glenn, “Michelle Grabner,” Art in America, March 2017

“Michelle Grabner,” The New Yorker, January 11, 2017

2016
“Michelle Grabner,” School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 21, 2016

Wolff, Carlo, “FRONT Aims to Put Cleveland at the Center of Modern Art,” Cleveland Jewish News, August 11, 2016

Graves, Jen, “You Don’t Have to Be a Sexist Fool to Want More from Michelle Grabner’s Art,” The Stranger, August 1, 2016

Kennedy, Rand, “Cleveland Gets an Art Triennial,” The New York Times, August 4, 2016

Indrisik, Scott, “Engaging the State: Portland Biennial’s Sprawling Joys,” Blouin Art Info, July 20, 2016

Anderson, Jennifer, “Disjecta Biennial Forges Regional Identity,” Portland Tribune, July 7, 2016

Burbank, Negan, “Yes, Portland has a Biennial,” The Portland Mercury News, July 6, 2016

Clemans, Gayle, “New Curator of Seattle University Art Galleries Focuses on Innovation, Engagement,” The Seattle Times, June 28, 2016

2015
Sam, Sherman, “Michelle Grabner,” Artforum, December 2015

Tyson, Janet, “Finding Art in the Smallness of Everyday Enthusiasms,” Hyperallergic, October 28, 2015

Zarley, Brian, “Art by the Balls,” Vice Sports, October 21, 2015

Mohammad, Sehba, “Michelle Grabner on Soccer Balls & Art in the American Interior,” Flavorpill, September 22, 2015

"Art 50: Chicago's Artists' Artists," New City, September 19, 2015

“Balls: Michelle Grabner’s Soccer Mom Art,” The Sport Spectacle, September 14, 2015

Artspace editors, “Artist Michelle Grabner’s Picks From EXPO Chicago 2015,” Artspace, September 14, 2015

Chiaverina, John. “Before Moving to Milwaukee, Michelle Grabner’s Oak Park Garage Gallery, The Suburban, Makes a Pit Stop In Indianapolis,” Art News, September 2, 2015

Calvo, Paula, “5 Questions: Michelle Grabner,” F Newsmagazine, August 28, 2015

Chayka, Kyle, “10 Chicago Art Personalities You Should Know,” Complex, July 13, 2015

“Art Of The Northeast Enjoys Run At New Canaan's Silvermine,” New Canaan Daily Voice, July 7, 2015

“Michelle Grabner Named Curator of Portland’s Contemporary Art Biennial,” Artforum, June 15, 2015

Grabner, Michelle, “Erika Rothenberg,” Artforum, June 2015

Peiffer, Prudence, “’Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today’," Artforum, May 2015

Gura, Judith, “MAD Gives Women in Applied Arts Long-Overdue Recognition,” Art +Auction, April 25, 2015

Gamerman, Ellen, “Under Fire, MoMA Vows to Learn from Björk Show,” The Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2015

Strasnick, Stephanie, “Discover Works by the Leading Ladies of Modernist Craft at the Museum of Arts and Design,” Architectural Digest, April 10, 2015

Heddaya, Mostafa, “Manifest Destiny? Volta New York Goes West,” Blouin Artinfo, March 6, 2015

Raphael, Rebecca Bronfein, “5 Female Artists Breaking the Glass Ceiling at ADAA,” Artsy, February 25, 2015

Munro, Cait,” What Top Galleries Are Bringing to the ADAA Art Show,” Artnet News, March 3, 2015

Baumgardner, Julie, “Things Are Not What They Appear,” W Magazine, March 25, 2015

Grabner, Michelle, “Walter Robinson,” Artforum, March 2015

Grabner, Michelle, “Westward Homes,” Art in America, January 2015

Puleo, Risa, “Michelle Grabner,” Modern Painters, January 2015

Schwabsky, Barry, “Michelle Grabner,” Artforum, January 1, 2015

2014
Schumacher, Mary Louise, “The year in art and architecture,” Journal Sentinel, December 27, 2014

Liebman, Kate, “Michelle Grabner,” The Brooklyn Rail, December 18, 2014

Grabner, Michelle, “Mickalene Thomas,” Artforum, December 2014

Robbins, David and Mary Louise Schumacher, “David Robbins on 'A Few Minutes With Michelle Grabner,'” Journal Sentinel, November 14, 2014

Steinhauer, Jillian, “On Ken Johnson and the Question of Sexism,” Hyperallergic, November 4, 2014

Fyfe, Joe, “The Uses of Pleasure: Michelle Grabner at James Cohan,” Hyperallergic, November 1, 2014

Jovanovich, Alex, “Michelle Grabner,” Artforum, November 2014

“Michelle Grabner,” The New Yorker, November 3, 2014

Kurchanova, Natasha, “Michelle Grabner interview: ‘My family is an important part of my life as an artist,’” Studio International, October 29, 2014

Halle, Howard, “Art,” Time Out New York, October 23-29, 2014

Schumacher, Mary Louise, “Why Michelle Grabner warrants more scrutiny,” Journal Sentinel, October 28, 2014

Schumacher, Mary Louise, “New York Times critic calls Michelle Grabner a soccer mom with 'bland' art in lazy review,” Journal Sentinel, October 27, 2014

Kirsch, Corinna, ““Soccer Mom,” Michelle Grabner Likes Math,” Artfcity, October 24, 2014

Plagens, Peter, “Art Review: Gallery Exhibitions of Inka Essenhigh, Michelle Grabner and Russian Avant-Garde Art,” The Wall Street Journal, October 24, 2014

Johnson, Ken, “Michelle Grabner,” The New York Times, October 23, 2014

Ebony, David, “David Ebony's Top 10 New York Gallery Shows for October,” Artnet News, October 22, 2014

“Michelle Grabner at James Cohan Gallery, New York,” Mousse, October 17, 2014 “James Cohan Gallery opens debut exhibition with Michelle Grabner,” Artdaily, October 18, 2014

“The 100 Most Powerful Women in Art: Part One,” Artnet News, October 15, 2014

Halle, Howard, “Art,” Time Out New York, October 9-15, 2014

“Michelle Grabner,” Wall Street International, October 13, 2014

Indrisek, Scott, “Parts and Labor: Michelle Grabner Gets to Work,” Artinfo, October 10,

Zevitas, Steven, “Must-see Painting Shows: October 2014,” The Huffington Post, October 9, 2014

“Michelle Grabner,” Time Out New York, October 1, 2014

Grabner, Michelle, “The People’s Palace,” Art in America, October 2014.

Trucco, Terry, “Labor of Love,” IN New York, October 2014

“Art 50: Chicago's Artists' Artists,” September 19, 2014

“Top 100 Fall Shows,” Modern Painters, September 2014

“We Asked 20 Women “Is the Art World Biased?” Here’s What They Said,” Artnet News, September 16, 2014

Grabner, Michelle, “Maddie Reyna,” Artforum, September 2014

Kino, Carol, “Artists on Artists: Michelle Grabner on Christopher Williams’s Vivid, Exacting Photographs,” The New York Times Style Magazine, May 9, 2014

Miller, Leigh Anne, “Inside Frieze New York with Michelle Grabner,” Art in America, May 8, 2014

“Whitney Museum: 2014 Whitney Biennial,” The New Yorker, March 24, 2014

Saltz, Jerry, “Sapphires in the Mud: There’s a Smart Show Buried in this Big Bland Whitney Bienniel,” New York Magazine, March 10-23, 2014

Borrelli, Christopher, “Meet Artist Michelle Grabner Whitney Biennial 2014 Curator,” Chicago Tribune, March 7, 2014

Michel, Karen, “Too Many Artists, Too Little Time: The Problems And Promise Of The Whitney,” All Things Considered, National Public Radio, March 7, 2014

Cotter, Holland, “One Last Dance in the Old Place: 2014 Whitney Biennial Has New Faces and Interesting Choices,” The New York Times, March 6, 2014

Johnson, Ken, “On the Piers, Armory Show Evokes Cut and Paste,” The New York Times, March 6, 2014

Miller, Michael H., “At the Armory Show, a Reminder that Whitney Biennial Curator Michelle Grabner Paints, Too,” Gallerist, March 6, 2014

“Five Questions for Michelle Grabner,” Artsy, March 5, 2014

Pollack, Barbara, “Meet the Artist Who’s Co-Curating the Whitney Biennial,”ARTnews, March 3, 2014

Saletnik, Jeffrey, “Michelle Grabner: Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland,” Artforum, March 2014

Munro, Cait, “Curating the Biennial Is Not a Fair and Equitable Process,” Artnet News, February 21, 2014

Paulsen, Kris, “Michelle Grabner ‘I Work from Home’ at MOCA Cleveland,” Mousse, January 9, 2014

2013
Loos, Ted, “15 Highlights You Can’t Miss at Art Basel in Miami Beach 2013,” Vogue, December 3, 2013

Sutton, Benjamin, “Here Are Your 2014 Whitney Biennial Artists,” Blouin Artinfo, November 14, 2013

Wolff, Carol, “MOCA opening exhibits paint different strokes,” Cleveland Jewish News, November 7, 2013

Michelle Grabner: The INOVA Survey, exhibition catalog with contributions by Nicholas Frank, Molly Zuckerman Hartung, John Riepenhoff, published by Green Gallery Press and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2013

Trigg, Sarah. Studio Life: Rituals, Collections, Tools, and Observations on the Artistic Process, Princeton Architectural Press, 2013

Cooper, Ashton, “Artist, Curator, Critic: Michelle Grabner's Eclectic Career, On View at MOCA Cleveland,”Artinfo, November 4, 2013

Walker Burke, Cassie. “Michelle Grabner is a Renaissance Woman.” Chicago Mag, October 2013

Nelson, Solveig. “Michelle Grabner: I Work From Home.” Artforum, September 2013

“Interview: Michelle Grabner,” Cultural Reproducers, September 8, 2013

Williams, Griff. “Celebrations, Broken Hearts and Autopsies: An Interview with Michelle Grabner.” San Francisco Arts Quarterly, May 2013

Picard, Caroline, “Embracing the Cliché: An Interview with Michelle Grabner.” Art: 21 Blog, March 26, 2013

Schmid, Christina, “Criticism on the Spot." The Brooklyn Rail, May 3, 2013 McManaman, Angela, “Many Curators are Called,” UWM Alumni Magazine, Spring 2013

Halperin, Julia, “26 Questions for Tondo Painter Michelle Grabner,” Artinfo, February 19, 2013

2012
“Art 50: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists,” New City, September 19, 2012

Murrell, Kat, “Michelle Grabner Looks Back and Moves On,” Express Milwaukee, September 5, 2012

Moriarty, Judith Ann, “Michelle Grabner, deja vu all over again,” Third Coast Daily, August 5, 2012

Zuckerman-Hartung, Molly, “Visiting Artist,” New City, April 5, 2012

Schwabsky, Barry, “In Conversation: Michelle Grabner and Barry Schwabsky” (cover image), The Brooklyn Rail, March 2012

Oliveria, Filipa, “The Indiscipline of Painting,” Artforum.com, 2012

Schumacher, Mary Louise, “Michelle Grabner at the Green Gallery,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 24, 2012

Moriarty, Judith Ann, “Michelle Grabner: Homespun Sophistication,” Third Coast Daily, January 24, 2012

2011
Martin Clark (Editor), Sarah Shalgosky (Editor), Daniel Sturgis Editor), The Indiscipline of Painting, Tate Publishing, October 1, 2011

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, July11, 2011

Canevet, Rozenn, “Chicago City Report,” Art Press, July 2011

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 Paintings / Blog, February 17, 2011

Morris, Matt, “Michelle Grabner and Sara Blyth-Stevens,” Catalogue essay, 2011

2010
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, Sheila, “The Studio Reader,” Bookforum, May 25, 2010

Viera, Lauren, “Suburban Makes Its Mark on Urban Scene,” Chicago Tribune, September 12, 2010

Sam, Sherman, Kultureflash, June 10, 2010

“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),” Bad at Sports, 2010

2009
Weinberg, Lauren, “Constellations at the MCA,” ARTnews, 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

Marple, Mieke, “Interview with Michelle Grabner,” The Highlights, March 2009

2008
Marple, Mieke, “Interview with Michelle Grabner,” The Highlights, March 2009

Elms, Anthony, “Michelle Grabner/The Suburban,” Modern Painters, March 2008

Relyea, Lane and Peter Ribic, Exhibition catalogue essays for Remain in Light, 2008 “Michelle Grabner,” Chicago Artists Resource, January 8, 2008

2007
Rosen, Kay, "Top Ten: Kay Rosen," Artforum, April 2007

Frank, Nicholas, "Paper Thin and Maximinimalism," Catalogue essay for INOVA, 2007

Topor, Joanna, "After Paschke," Chicago Magazine, April 2007

Vogt, Jess, "Grabner Welcomes Art to 'The Suburb'," The Lawrentian, January 26, 2007

Martini, Tiffany, "Michelle Grabner Makes a Good Point," San Francisco Examiner, March 20, 2007

Artner, Alan, "Grabner's Solo Show Reveals Pop Influences," Chicago Tribune, January 19, 2007

2006
Schwabsky, Barry, “Michelle Grabner: Rocket,” Artforum, 2006

Roosa, Wayne, “The Pleasures of Merely Circulating,” Exhibition catalogue, 2006 Time Out London, August 10, 2006

Hoare, Lottie, “1996-2006: Michelle Grabner Paintings,” Exhibition catalogue, 2006

Bredin, Lucinda, The Week, London, July 22, 2006

Blinderman, Barry and Relyea, Lane, “Remain in Light,” Exhibition catalogue essays, 2006

Myers, Terry R, “Time is on Our Side,” exhibition essay, Slowness, Heaven Gallery, 2006 Arney, Steve, “Art for the Artist,” The Pantagraph, March 2006

2005
Rubi, Amalia, “USA Hoy Pintura y escutura Norte Americana,” El Punto, July 2005

Hemmings, Jessica, “PURL: Six Artists Inspired by MoDD’a Collections,” Surface Design Journal, Summer 2005

Artner, Alan, “Michelle Grabner at Wendy Cooper Gallery,” Chicago Tribune, May 20, 2005

Weinberg, Lauren, "Michelle Grabner," Time Out Chicago, April 9, 2005

Ott, Sabina, “Broad Shoulders,” Stretcher, April 2005

2004
Gotz, Henning, “Go Munchen,” September 19, 2004

Schwarz, Franziska, SzeneMagazine, September 9, 2004

Rundfunk, Bayerischr, BR-Online, September 2, 2004

Seidel, Florian, Bauwelt, September 2004

Dattenberger, Simone, Munchener Merkur, August 27, 2004

Huber, Cornelia, AZ Wochenende, August 22, 2004

Schneeberger, Ruth, Munchner Kultur, August 21-22, 2004

Eisenack, Marco, SZ-Extra, August 2004

Hannum, Terence, “Inner Positive,” Artnet, April 2004

Saunders, Gill, “Purl: Six Artists inspired by MoDA’s Collection,” Catalogue Essay, 2004

Workman, Michael, “Modest Minimalism,” New City, February 25,

Miles, Christopher, “Tracking Patterns, Report from Santa Monica II,” Art in America, February 2004

2003
Van Proyen, Mark, “Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam: Gallery 16 –San Francisco,” Art in America, October 2003

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

2002
Stein, Lisa, “Artist Profile,” Chicago Tribune, May 26, 2002

Artner, Alan, “Paper Exhibition Breaks Out into a New Dimension,” Chicago Tribune, March 21, 2002

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 Levin, Kim, “Michelle Grabner,” Village Voice, November 20, 2001

Young, Donald, “Sound Video Images Objects,” Flash Art, July 2001

Glueck, Grace, “Art in Review: ‘Compression,’” The New York Times, January 5, 2001

2000
Waxman, Lori, “Electraslip Knife,” New Art Examiner, November 2000

Bulka, Michael, “Electraslip Knife,” New City, July 6, 2000

Shane, Nicola, "Money Matters," Art Review, June 2000

Radio Interview with Victoria Lautmann, WBBZ, Chicago's NPR station, May 11, 2000

Helfand, Glen, “Critics Choice: Minimal Pop,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 3, 2000

Roch, Kate and Neal, Jennifer, “Chicago Headliners,” AHEAD, Spring 2000

Laridaer, Cheryl, "ROYGBIV," Post-Crescent, February 27, 2000

Naves, Mario, “Noguchi and Kelly Talk: Pollock's True Legacy,” The New York Observer, February 14, 2000

Cotter, Holland, "Art Review; Surging into Chelsea," The New York Times, January 21, 2000

1999
Bonettti, David, "Gallery Watch," San Francisco Examiner, December 18, 1999

Baker, Kenneth, "At Home with Grabner and Isermann," San Francisco Chronicle, December 1999

Gustafson, John, "It Looks Easy: A Cross Section of Recent Painting in Chicago, “ New Art Examiner, December/January, 1999 (p. 49-50)

Sans, Jerome, “Home Painting,” Exhibition catalogue, Rocket Gallery, 1999

Artner, Alan, "Grabner Homes in On Subject Matter," Chicago Tribune, May 27, 1999

Auer, James, "Work Added to Sesquicentennial Portfolio,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 12, 1999

Lambrecht, Luk, "Kunstgrepen," Brussels Daily News, May 1999

Snodgrass, Susan, "Letter from Chicago," C, May-August, 1999

Snodgrass, Susan, "Report from Chicago: Staying Alive,” Art in America, April 1999

Radio Interview with Russell Panczenko, Wisconsin Public Radio, March 1999

Porges, Tim, "A Demolition Derby of Art," The Octopus, January 15-21, 1999

Bamberger, Tom, "Where Have All the Artists Gone," Milwaukee Magazine, January 1999

Brehmer, Debra, "Snow White," Metro Milwaukee Weekly, January 1999

1998
Miller, Cliff, “Sesquicentennial Art Show Bear's Appleton's 1998

Signature: Prosse, Grabner Play Prominent Roles,” Appleton Post- Crescent, December 3, 1998

Guha, Tania, "Michelle Grabner at Rocket Gallery," Time Out London, August 26-September 2, 1998

Saltz, Jerry, "Uncomfortable," Time Out New York, July 31-August 7, 1998

Miller, Cliff, "Lasting Tribute," Appleton Post Crescent, July 27, 1998

Mickelson, Sandy, "The Art of Intrigue," Oshkosh Northwestern, July 23, 1998

Lusher, Tim, "Michelle Grabner: Home Painting," Evening Standard, June 4, 1998

Tan, Eugene, "Michelle Grabner," Contemporary Visual Arts 19, 1998

1997
Ullrich, Polly, "The Workmanship of Risk: The Re-emergence of Handicraft in Smith, Courtenay, “Post-Pop, Post-Pictures,” Smart Museum, The University of Chicago, exhibition catalogue, 1997

Kind, Joshua, "Post-Pop, Post-Pictures," New Art Examiner, November 1997

Frank, Nicholas, “If Walls Could Talk” exhibition catalogue, Hermetic Gallery, 1997

Aukeman, Anastasia, "Small Budget, Large Ambition," ARTnews, October 1997

Wasserman, Nadine, "Michelle Grabner," New Art Examiner, October 1997

Hawkins, Margaret, "Gen X Artists Flaunt Their Indifference," Chicago Sun-Times, September 5, 1997

Auer, James, "Tracking the Rising Stars in Art, Music, Dance Theater," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 24, 1997

Auer, James, "Painter's Work Takes a Deep, Concentrated Look at Surfaces," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 28, 1997

Artner, Alan, "Distraction," Chicago Tribune, May 2, 1997

Iannaccone, Carmine, "Michelle Grabner," Frieze, May 1997

Carley, Michal, "Michelle Grabner," Art Papers, March/April 1997

Forgacs, Eva, "Michelle Grabner at Richard Heller," Art Issues, March/April 1997

Pagal, David, "Michelle Grabner at Richard Heller," Los Angeles Times, January 20, 1997

1996
Auer, James, "State Wide Show Embraces Vast Array of Styles," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Sunday, November 3, 1996

Taylor, Sue, "Michelle Grabner: Ten in One Gallery-Chicago, Illinois," Art in America, September 1996

Yood, James. "Michelle Grabner at Ten in One Gallery." Artforum, Summer 1996

Porges, Timothy. "In With the Out Crowd." Dialogue, May/June 1996

Scarborough, James. "Michelle Grabner at Ten in One Gallery." New Art Examiner, April 1996

Artner, Alan, "Domestic Turns Abstract in Grabner's Work," Chicago Tribune, March 22, 1996

1995
“25 Americans: Painting in the 90s,” Milwaukee Art Museum, with an essay by Dean Sobel

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne, Luxembourg

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Artist Pension Trust, New York, NY