1970 Born Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Lives and works in New York
Education
1997 MFA, honors, Rhode Island School of Design
1992 BA Kalamazoo College
1990-91 University Cheik Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
Solo Exhibitions
2008 City Sitings, Williams College Art Gallery, Williamstown, MA
City Sitings, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2007 Julie Mehretu: Black City, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover
Julie Mehretu: Black City, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek
Julie Mehretu: City Sitings (traveling through 2008), The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
2006 Black City, MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Léon, Léon
Julie Mehretu – Heavy Weather, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society, 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art in Seville, Spain
2005 Drawings, The Project, New York, NY
Currents, St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, MS
2004 Matrix, University of California Berkeley Art Museum, CA
Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Déjŕ-vu, carlier │gebauer, Berlin, Germany
Landscape Allegories, Thomas Dane, London, UK
2003 Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art
Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting, Walker Art Center, MN (travelling)
2002 White Cube, London, UK
2001 The Project, New York, NY
Art Pace, San Antonio, TX
1999 Module, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
1998 Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
1996 Paintings, Sol Kofler Gallery, Providence, RI
1995 Ancestral Reflections, Archive Gallery. New York, NY
Ancestral Reflections, Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, MA
Group Exhibitions
2007 African Art Today: An Unbounded Vista, Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City
Comic Abstraction, Museum of Modern Art, New York
New Directions in American Drawing, Columbus and Savannah
2006 The 15th Biennale of Sydney, International Festival of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Unhomely, Seville Biennial
The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
When Artist’s Say We, Artist’s Space, New York
Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, St. Louise Art Museum, St. Louis
Collection in Context: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum, Harlem, New York
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
SWARM, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
Mapping Space: Selections from the Collection, Miami Art Museum, FL
2005 Remote Viewing: Invented Worls in Recent Painting and Drawing, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Baroque and Neobaroque, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
Mythologies, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
On Line, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebćk, Denmark
This Storm Is What We Call Progress, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
2004 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Back to Paint, C&M Arts, New York, NY
Firewall, Ausstellungshalle, Zeitgenössische Kunst, Munster, Germany
2003 Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Lazarus Effect, Prague Biennial 1, Prague, Czech Republic
The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turino, Italy
GNS, Palais du Tokyo, Paris, France
Outlook, International Art Exhibition, Athens, Greece
Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art, 1970 – 2000, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (travelling)
Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora, National Museum for African Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C
Metascape, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, Unitversity of California, Santa Barbara, CA (travelling)
2002 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Out of Site, New Museum, New York, NY
Centre of Attraction, The 8th Baltic Triennal of International Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
The Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
Contemporary Arts Museum, St. Louis, MO
2001 Urgent Painting, Musee d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
The Americans, Barbican Art Centre, London, United Kingdom
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, M
Freestyle, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Artists-in-Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Casino 2001, Stedeiijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
2000 Selections Fall 2000, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Five Continents and One City, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexcio City, Mexico
Greater New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York, NY
Translations, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Glenn Brown, Julie Mehretu, Peter Rostovsky, The Project, New York, NY
Architecture and Memory, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY
Architecture and Memory, CRG, New York, NY
1999 Material, Process, Memory, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
The Stroke, Exit Art, New York, NY
Texas Draws, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX. Catalogue.
Hot Spots: Houston, Miami and Los Angeles, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Core 1999, The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX. Catalogue.
Sheer Abstraction, Barbara Davies Gallery, Houston, TX
Artistic Centers in Texas: Houston and Galveston, Texas Fine Arts Association,
Galveston, San Angelo, El Paso, Austin, Tyler, TX. Catalogue.
1998 Universal Pictures, Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
Text and Territory: Navigating through Immigration and Dislocation, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Core 1998, The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX. Catalogue.
Millennium Fever, Diverse Works, Houston, TX
1997 Annual Graduate Student Exhibition, The Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design.
1996 The Bombastic Righteous Passively Become Apparent Absurdities, Collaborative Installation with Benjamin Edwards, Sol Kofler Gallery, Providence, RI
1995 A Woman's View, The World Bank International Women's Exhibition, The World Bank Art Society, Washington DC. Catalogue.
Yewenshet, Three Ethiopian Painters, The Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
