Michelle Grabner is an artist, writer, and curator. She is the Crown Family Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has taught since 1996. Her work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Walker Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Luxembourg, and the Milwaukee Art Museum, among others. Grabner, along with artist Brad Killam, runs the artist-run project spaces The Suburban (Milwaukee, est. 1999), and The Poor Farm, (Little Wolf, WI, est. 2008). Grabner is a recipient of the 2025 Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowships for Individual Artists.