1970 Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Lives and works in New York
Education
1997 MFA, Honors, Rhode Island School of Design
1992 BA Kalamazoo College
1990-1991 University Cheik Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Grey Area, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2009
'Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu', High Point Prints, Minneapolis
'Grey Area', Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
2008
City Sitings, Williams College Art Gallery, Williamstown, MA
'Eye of the Storm', Carl Scholsberg Gallery, Montserrat College, Beverley, MA
City Sitings, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
2007
Julie Mehretu: Black City, Kunstverein Hanover, Hanover, Germany
Julie Mehretu: Black City, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Julie Mehretu: City Sitings, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
2006
Julie Mehretu: Black City, MUSAC-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain
Julie Mehretu: Heavy Weather, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Julie Mehretu: Heavy Weather, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
2005
Julie Mehretu: Drawings, Projectile Gallery, New York, NY
Currents 95: Julie Mehretu, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
2004
carlier | gebauer, Berlin
Julie Mehretu: MATRIX 211, Manifestation, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2003
Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Travelled to REDCAT, Los Angeles and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY
2002
White Cube, London
2001
The Project, New York
Art Pace, San Antonio
1999
Module, Project Row Houses, Houston
1998
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston
1996
Paintings, Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1995
Ancestral Reflections, Archive Gallery, New York, NY
Travelled to Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts
Group Exhibitions
2010
Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London
2009
Automatic Cities, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Who's Afraid of the Artists?, Palais des Arts de Dinard, Dinard
Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers, Institute of Contemporary Art (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
2008
I Bought the Brooklyn Bridge, Kupferstichkebinett, Berlin
Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
Vou-te contar uma história: Let me tell you a story, Porta 33, Madeira
Prospect 1, New Orleans Biennale, New Orleans, LA
'The Cosmos: A Group Exhibition', Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco
Drawn to Detail, Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Collection of Greenberg-Rohatyn, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2007
'Multiplex; Directions in New Art 1970 to Now', MOMA, New York
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
Zones of Contact: The 15th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
When Artist’s Say We, Artists Space, New York
Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
ARCO’06, Madrid
SWARM, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
Mapping Space: Selections from the Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami
Freeing the Line, Marian Goodman, New York
Belief & Doubt, Aspen Art Center, Aspen
Super Vision, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society, Second International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain
Green Flame, New Crowned Hope Festival, Vienna, Austria
Distant Relatives / Relative Distance, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town, South Africa
Visual Arts Jury Show, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown
Archpeinture: Painters Build Architecture, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Art of Etching at Crown Point Press, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Collection in Context: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2005
Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Baroque and Neobaroque, Domus Atrium, Salamanca, Spain
Prints into Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Mythologies, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
On Line, Louisiana Museum of Contemporary Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Arnolfini, Bristol, England
Insight, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
25: Twenty-five Years of the Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, PaceWildenstein, New York
2004
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Back to Paint, C & M Arts, New York
Firewall, Ausstellungshalle Zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster, Germany
Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf. Traveled to Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2003
Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
Lazarus Effect, Prague Biennial 1, Prague
The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
GNS, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Outlook, International Art Exhibition, Athens
Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art, 1970-2000, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora, National Museum for African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Metascape, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
2002
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Stalder-Mehretu-Solakov, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland
Out of Site, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Centre of Attraction, The 8th Baltic Triennal of International Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
Busan Biennale 2002, Busan Metropolitan Museum, Busan, Korea
Wallow, The Project, New York
Terra Incognita: Contemporary Artists’ Maps and Other Visual Organizing Systems, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
Urgent Painting, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
2001
The Americans, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Freestyle, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
2000
Selections Fall 2000, The Drawing Center, New York
Five Continents and One City, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City
Greater New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Translations, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Glenn Brown, Julie Mehretu, Peter Rostovsky, The Project, New York
Architecture and Memory, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York
Architecture and Memory, CRG, New York
1999
Material, Process, Memory, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin
The Stroke, Exit Art, New York
Texas Draws, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Hot Spots: Houston, Miami and Los Angeles, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Core 1999, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Sheer Abstraction, Barbara Davies Gallery, Houston
Artistic Centers in Texas: Houston-Galveston, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas
Association Galveston, San Angelo, El Paso, Austin, Tyler, Texas
1998
Universal Pictures, Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston
Text and Territory: Navigating through Immigration and Dislocation, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
Core 1998, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Millennium Fever, Diverse Works, Houston
1997
Annual Graduate Student Exhibition, The Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1996
The Bombastic Righteous Passively Become Apparent Absurdities, (collaborative installation with Benjamin Edwards), Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1995
A Woman's View, The World Bank International Women's Exhibition, The World Bank Art Program, Washington D.C.
Yewenshet, Three Ethiopian Painters, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, New York
Grants and Residencies
2007 American Academy in Berlin Fellowship
2006 The Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Council Artistic Achievement Award, Rhode Island
2005 MacArthur Fellow
American Art Award, Whitney Museum of Art, New York
Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2003 Artist-in-Residency, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Artist-in-Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2002 Penny McCall Foundation Grant
2001 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
AIR Program at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Pat Hearn Inaugural Award
Artists-in-Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
1997–98 CORE Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1995–97 The Rhode Island School of Design Presidential Scholar Fall Tuition Award
