Julie Mehretu
born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1970
lives and works in New York City
Education
MFA, honors, Rhode Island School of Design, 1997
BA, Kalamazoo College, 1992
University Cheik Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, 1990–91
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2012 Julie Mehretu, carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany
2012 Julie Mehretu, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2010 Julie Mehretu, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2009 Julie Mehretu, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
2009 Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu, High Point, Minneapolis, MN
2008 Julie Mehretu: New Drawings, Kresge Museum of Art, East Lansing
2008 Julie Mehretu: City Sitings, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown and North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2008 Julie Mehretu: Eye of the Storm, Carol Schlosberg Alumni Gallery, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2007 Reflexive Drawings, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
2007 Julie Mehretu: City Sitings, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
2007 Julie Mehretu: Black City, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
2007 Julie Mehretu: Black City, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
2006 Julie Mehretu: Black City, MUSAC-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain
2006 Julie Mehretu: Heavy Weather, Crown Point Press, San Francisco
2006 Julie Mehretu: Heavy Weather, The Print Center, Philadelphia
2005 Julie Mehretu: Drawings, Projectile Gallery, New York
2005 Currents 95: Julie Mehretu, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
2004 carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany
2004 Julie Mehretu: MATRIX 211, Manifestation, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California
2003 Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Traveled to REDCAT, Los Angeles and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2002 White Cube, London
2001 The Project, New York
2001 Art Pace, San Antonio
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2009 Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2009 Automatic Cities, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2009 Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers, Institute of Contemporary Art (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
2008 The Cosmos: A Group Exhibition, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 The Lines of the Hand, MUCA, Mexico City, Mexico
2008 I Bought the Brooklyn Bridge, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
2008 Prospect.1, New Orleans Biennale, New Orleans, LA
2007 Bought the Brooklyn Bridge, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
2007 Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
2007 Vou-te contra uma história: Let me tell you a story, Porta 33, Madeira
2007 Prospect.1, New Orleans Biennale, New Orleans, LA
2007 Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New Yor
2007 Comic Abstraction, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2006 The 15th Biennale of Sydney, International Festival of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2006 The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2006 When Artist`s Say We, Artist`s Space, New York
2006 Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, St. Louis Art Museum
2005 Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, The Whitney Museum of American Art
2005 Africa Remix, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2005 25 Jahre Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
2005 Mythologies, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2004 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2004 Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2004 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
2003 Lazarus Effect, Prague Biennial 1, Prague, Czech Republic
2003 The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turino, Italy
2003 GPS, Palais du Tokyo, Paris, France
2002 Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2002 Stalder-Mehretu-Solakov, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland
2002 Out of Site, New Museum, New York
