| Born | 1962, Oshkosh, WI, USA |
| | Lives and works in Oak Park, IL, USA |
| Studies | 1990, M.F.A. Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University, USA |
| | 1987, M.A. Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA Thesis: "Postmodernism: A Spectacle of Reflexivity" |
| | 1984, B.F.A. Painting and Drawing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA |
Selected Solo Shows
| 2011 | Like a Rare Morel, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA |
| 2010 | Chaos is rigidly structured in this chapter, Peregrine Program, Chicago, IL |
| | Michelle Grabner, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe (two person show) Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, CH |
| | 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 |
| | Works on Paper, Minus Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA |
| | FLAPJACK, Rocket, London, UK (catalogue) |
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| 2009 | Silverpoints with Guest Mobile, Green Gallery East, Milwaukee, WI, USA |
| | SILVERPOINTS, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA |
| | ROUND SILVERPOINTS, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL, USA |
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| 2008 | SILVERPOINTS, PS, Amsterdam, NL |
| | Remain in Light, survey exhibition, Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS, USA (exhibition catalogue |
| | New Bedford Art Museum, Vault Series, New Bedford, MA, USA |
| 2007 | Michelle Grabner’s Never Quite Happy Home, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY USA |
| | Please Return My Kenneth Noland Catalogue, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA |
| | Please Return My Kenneth Noland Catalogue PS, Amsterdam, NL |
| | Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, USA |
| | Michelle Grabner, 809 Calgary, CA, USA |
| | Remain in Light, survey exhibition, Wriston Art Center, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI, USA |
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| 2006 | 1996-2006, Rocket Gallery, London, UK |
| | Remain in Light, survey exhibition, University Galleries, Illinois State University, USA |
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| 2005 | Project Room, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA |
| 2004 | Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA, USA |
| 2003 | Rocket Gallery, London, UK |
| | Niagara Galleries, Melbourne, AU |
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| 2001 | Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA |
| | Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY, USA (exhibition catalogue) |
| | A Little Less of Me Deluxe Projects, Chicago, IL, USA |
| | Ten in One Gallery: Project Space, New York, NY, USA |
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| 2000 | Suburban Abstraction, Rocket, London, UK |
| | Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
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| 1999 | In Situ, Aalst, BE |
| | Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA |
| | Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, USA |
| | Paintings for Modern Chairs, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA |
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| 1998 | Home Painting, Rocket Gallery, London, UK (exhibition catalogue) |
| | Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA |
| | Fuzzy, ICA, Portland, ME, US |
| | Safety Patterns, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA |
| | Safety Patterns, Rocket Gallery, London, UK |
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| 1997 | Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA |
| | INOVA (Institute of Visual Arts), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI, USA |
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| 1996 | Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA |
| | Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, USA |
Selected Group Shows
| 2012 | The Indiscpline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, UK | | ||
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| 2011 | A Painting Show, curated by Laura Raicovich and Jessie Washburne-Harris, Harris Lieberman, NY, USA | | ||
| | The Indiscipline of Painting: International Abstraction from the 1960s to Now,” | | ||
| | Women and Weaving, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY, USA) | | ||
| | Dressing the Monument, curated by John Riepenhoff and Piper Marshall, LyndenSculpture Garden, Milwaukee, IL, USA | | ||
| | COMPILATION : ONGOING MINIMALISM, Paintings by Lars Wolter, Michelle Grabner, Stefan Eberstadt, Will Taylor, Rocket, London, UK | | ||
| | KISS: New Sincerity & New Romaticism in Art, Clara M Eagale Gallery, Murray State, KY, USA | |||
| | A Shot in the Dark, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA | | ||
| | SCULPTURE GARDEN/PAINTING SHOW, curated by Andrew Greene, Iceberg Projects, Chicago; add and subtract, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL, USA | | ||
| | Michelle Grabner and Sarah Blyth-Stephens, U.turn Art Space, Cincinnati, OH, USA | | ||
| | MARKED, Kittridge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Puget Sound, WA, USA | | ||
| | “Unfinished Paintings: Unresolved Work by 40 Contemporary Artists”, LACE, Los Angeles, CA, USA | | ||
| | Between This Light and That Space, Minus Space, curated by Doug Meilini, New York, NY USA | | ||
| | Free Range-Painting and the University of Pennsylvania, Morgan Gallery, University of Philadelphia, PA; USA | | ||
| | SPUR, STRUKTUR..., Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, AT | | ||
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| 2010 | “Collaborating with Michelle Grabner isn't as much fun as you might think it is”, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, USA | | ||
| | “The Elegant Drawing Show”, Drive-By, Boston, MA, USA | | ||
| | Ornament and Crime (and Crime), Adds Donna, Chicago, IL, USA | | ||
| | “A Shot in the Dark”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA | | ||
| | UND#6, Schwartz Gallery, London, UK | | ||
| | “Newtonland: Orbits, Ellipses and other Planes of Activity” White Flag Projects, | | ||
| | “ Mother,” NYU Steinhardt Commons Gallery,, New York, NY, USA | | ||
| | Art Scout, Arlington Art Center, Arlington VA, USA | | ||
| | “Borderland Abstraction,” Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, USA | | ||
| | Don’t Piss on Me and Tell Me it’s Raining, curated by Bad at Sports, Apex Art, NY, USA | | ||
| | “Emerging from a New Known,” NO LONGER EMPTY, New York, NY, USA; curated by Douglas Melini | | ||
| | “On Painting” Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL, USA | | ||
| | “My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble,” La Station, Nice, FR | | ||
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| 2009 | Halbjahresgaben,” Tanzschule, Munich, DE | | ||
| | “SUBVISION,” Hamburg, DE | | ||
| | “Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA “Open House For Butterflies,” MINUS SPACE Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA | | ||
| | “PS,” The Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Inverness, Scotland | | ||
| | “Because the Night,” curated by Sabina Ott, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Los Angeles, CA, USA | | ||
| | “Wallgasm,” Anstrom Gallery, LA, USA | | ||
| | “Let’s Leave It at That…” Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, USA | | ||
| | “of or related to the sky or visible heavens,” Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL, USA | | ||
| | “De-Centered Practice,” curated by Jennifer Dudley, Ethan Greenbaum, Colleen Asper, Circus Gallery, LA, USA | | ||
| | “PS 1999-2009,” Kunstruimte09, Groningen, NL | | ||
| | “Trance, Chance, Dreams and the Unconscious” Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY, USA | | ||
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| 2008 | “Presents,” curated by Milwaukee International, Rowley Kennerk, Chicago, IL, USA | | ||
| | “Sensory Overload: Forces of Light Sound and Motion” Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, USA | | ||
| | “UND” CROXHAPOX, Ghent, BE | | ||
| | “NOLEFTOVERS,” Kunsthalle, Bern, CH | | ||
| | "These Are The People In Your Neighborhood,” Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA, USA | | ||
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| 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 | | ||
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| 2006 | “Eldorado: with Gaylen Gerber,” Musee d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg | | ||
| | “Figures in the Field,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA | | ||
| | “Outside Europe: From the Daimler art Collection,” Stadtgalerie, Keil, DE | | ||
| | “The Believers,” Franklin Hudson Gallery, New York, NY, USA | | ||
| | “Strange Days,” Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainsville, FL, USA | | ||
| | “Slowness” Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA | | ||
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| 2005 | “There’s a City in My Mind,” Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY, USA | |||