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Michelle Grabner

Age: 51

Occupation: Artist; cocurator, Whitney Biennial

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“She has busted her ass for 20 years,” the gallerist Shane Campbell told Chicago last fall when this artist/ curator/critic became the rare Chicagoan picked to cocurate the Whitney Biennial, that landmark American art showcase. For which locals could get their break there, see “Cultural Clout.”