Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1970.
Lives and works in New York City

Grants and Residencies
2007 Berlin Prize, Guna S. Mundheim Fellowship, The American Academy in Berlin
2006 Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Council Artistic Achievement Award, RI
2005 MacArthur Fellow
2005 American Art Award, Whitney Museum of Art, New York
2005 Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2003 Artist-in-Residency, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2003 Artist-in-Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California
2003 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2002 Penny McCall Foundation Grant
2001 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
2001 AIR Program at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2001 Pat Hearn Inaugural Award
1997–98 CORE Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1995–97 Rhode Island School of Design Presidential Scholar Fall Tuition Award

Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2008 Julie Mehretu: New Drawings, Kresge Museum of Art, East Lansing, USA
2008 Julie Mehretu: City Sitings, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA
2007 "City Citings", The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit
2007 Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
2007 Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
2006 MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo y Léon, Léon, Spain
2005 “Julie Mehretu: Drawings”, The Project, New York
2005 “Currents 95 : Julie Mehretu”, St Louis Art Museum, St Louis
2004 “Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting”, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY / REDCAT, CalArts, Valencia,
2004 carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2003 “Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
 
Group Exhibitions (selected)
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
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