PCNA to Host Michelle Grabner Lecture

Thursday, November 05, 2015
GoLocalPDX Arts Team

The Pacific Northwest College of Arts will host artist and curator Michelle Grabner for a lecture on November 19 as part of the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

This is Grabner’s first public lecture in Portland since being named curator of the Portland2016 Biennial of Contemporary Art at Disjecta. 

Grabner is the chair of of the department of painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and director of the exhibition spaces, the Suburban and the Poor Farm. 

She also previously served as one of the curators of the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Grabner holds an MA in art history and a BFA in painting and drawing from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and an MFA in art theory and practice from Northwestern University. From 2012 to 2014, she was a senior critic at Yale University in the department of painting and printmaking. 

Grabner will discuss her background and interest in regionalism led her to become the curator of Portland2016. A moderator will join Grabner to lead a conversation about issues relevant to the location and community of the regional biennial.