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Julie Mehretu
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American
, born 1970)
Julie Mehretu
Dream State from Six Bardos,
2018
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Biography
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Timeline
1970
Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
1990 - 1991
Studied at the University Cheik Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal
1992
BA at Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI
1997
MFA, Honors, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2001
AIR Program at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
2002
The Penny McCall Foundation Grant
2003
Mitchell Foundation Grant
Artist in Residency at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2005
MacArthur Fellow
American Art Award, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
2006
The Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Council Artistic Achievement Award, Providence, RI
2007
American Academy in Berlin Fellowship
Exhibitions
2013
Liminal Squared, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (solo)
Liminal Squared, White Cube, London (solo)
Mind, Breath and Beat Drawings, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris (solo)
The Gesture and the Sign, White Cube, Sao Paulo
The Temptation of the Diagram, Andrea Rosen Gallery 2 , New York
2012
Highlights 2012, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany
‘The Painting Factory’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2011
Multiplicity’, Smithsonian, Washington D.C.
The Bearden Project’, the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
In Praise of Doubt, Punta della Dogana, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
‘Seeing/Knowing’, Graham Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Ohio
2010
Three Artists: Julie Mehretu, Julian Lethbridge, Wayne Gonzales, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009
Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu, High Point Prints, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
Grey Area, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Automatic Cities, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Who's Afraid of the Artists?, Palais des Arts de Dinard, Dinard, France
Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers, Institute of Contemporary Art (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
2008
City Sitings, Williams College Art Gallery, Williamstown, MA (solo)
Eye of the Storm, Carl Scholsberg Gallery, Montserrat College, Beverley, MA (solo)
City Sitings, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (solo)
I Bought the Brooklyn Bridge, Kupferstichkebinett, Berlin, Germany
Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Vou-te contar uma história: Let me tell you a story, Porta 33, Madeira, Portugal
Prospect 1, New Orleans Biennale, New Orleans, LA
The Cosmos: A Group Exhibition, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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
Julie Mehretu: Black City, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany (solo)
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark (solo)
Comic Abstraction, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Julie Mehretu: City Sitings, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (solo)
Collector's Choice III. Audacity in Art; Selected Works from Central Florida Collections, Orlando, FL
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Lines, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Reflexive Drawings, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
Williams College of Art, Williamstown, NJ
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
African Art Today: An Unbounded Vista, Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
2006
The 15th Biennale of Sydney, International Festival of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
MUSAC- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon, Spain (solo)
Julie Mehretu: Heavy Weather, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA (solo)
When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York, NY
Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
ARCO, Madrid, Spain
SWARM, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
Mapping Space: Selections from the Collection, Miami Art Museum, FL
2005
Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Baroque and Neobaroque, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
Prints into Drawings, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Mythologies, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
On Line, Louisiana Contemporary, Humlebæk, Denmark
Julie Mehretu: Drawings, Projectile Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Currents 95: Julie Mehretu, St. Louis Art Museum, MO (solo)
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
2004
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Back to Paint, C & M Arts, New York, NY
Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Firewall, Ausstellungshalle Zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster, Germany
Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany (traveled to Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan)
Carlier l gebauer, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Julie Mehretu: MATRIX 211, Manifestation, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA (solo)
2003
Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting, Walker Art Center, MN; REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (solo)
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
Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art, 1970 -2000, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora, National Museum for African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Metascape, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
2002
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Stalder-Mehretu-Solakov, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland
Out of Site, New Museum, New York, NY
Centre of Attraction, The 8th Baltic Triennal of International Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
Busan Biennale 2002, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea
White Cube, London, UK (solo)
Systems, Contemporary Arts Museum, St. Louis, MO
Wallow, The Project, New York, NY
Urgent Painting, Musee d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
2001
The Americans, Barbican Art Centre, London, UK
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
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
The Project, New York, NY (solo)
Art Pace, San Antonio, TX (solo)
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
Glenn Brown, Julie Mehretu, Peter Rostovsky, The Project, New York, NY
Architecture and Memory, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY
1999
Material, Process, Memory, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
The Stroke, Exit Art, New York, NY
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
Artistic Centers in Texas: Houston and Galveston, Texas Fine Arts, TX
Module, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (solo)
1998
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
Universal Pictures, Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
Core 1998, The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
1997
Annual Graduate Student Exhibition, The Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1996
The Bombastic Righteous Passively Become Apparent Absurdities, Collaborative Installation with Benjamin Edwards, Sol Kofler Gallery, Providence, RI
Paintings, Sol Kofler Gallery, Providence, RI (solo)
1995
Ancestral Reflections, Archive Gallery, New York, NY; Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, MA (solo)
A Woman's View, The World Bank International Women's Exhibition, The World Bank Art Society, Washington DC
Yewenshet, Three Ethiopian Painters, The Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
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Public Collections
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
