Artist
Julie Mehretu
b. 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia · Ethiopian-American · Based in New York, New York, USA
- Kalamazoo College
- Rhode Island School of Design
- East Lansing High School
- Monumental Acrylic and Ink on Canvas
- Printmaking
- Drawing
Julie Mehretu builds large paintings from layers of architectural plans, maps, diagrams, gestural marks and blurred source images. Her work has evolved from precise cartographic structures toward denser atmospheric fields in which political images are digitally transformed and almost submerged beneath paint.
Painting; drawing; printmaking
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
Julie Mehretu in "Systems" - Season 5 - "Art in the Twenty-First Century" | Art21
Art2113 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
In Conversation: Paul Pfeiffer, Julie Mehretu, and Lawrence Chua
The Museum of Contemporary Art108 minOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Black/Queer/Abstract: A convening on the occasion of Julie Mehretu | Part 2 of 4
Whitney Museum of American ArtOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Major Works
- 2004Stadia II
- 2001Retopistics: A Renegade Excavation
- 2012Mogamma (A Painting in Four Parts)
- 2009Mural
- 2007Black City
- 2007–09Grey Area
- 2010–11Invisible Line (Collective)
- 2017HOWL, eon (I, II)
- 2018Hineni (E. 3:4)
- 2019–20Ghosthymn (after the Raft)
Museums & Public Collections
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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