Julie Mehretu
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Julie Mehretu (b. 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is an American artist best known for her densely-layered abstract paintings and prints. Raised in Michigan, Mehretu was educated at the University Cheik Anta Diop (UCAD) in Dakar, Senegal, Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1997. She now lives and works in New York City. Mehretu shares her New York studio with her partner, also a celebrated artist, Jessica Rankin.[1] Mehretu is represented by Christian Haye of The Project gallery in New York City[2] and shows work with Jay Jopling at the White Cube art gallery in London.[3]
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[edit] Exhibitions and awards
Mehretu was the recipient of the 2001 Penny McCall Award.[4] Her work has been included in Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York (2000),[5] and she has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including one at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (2000)[citation needed]. More recently, her work has appeared in Free Style at the Studio Museum in Harlem (2001)[citation needed]; The Americans at the Barbican Gallery in London (2001)[citation needed]; White Cube gallery in London (2002)[6], the Busan Biennale in Korea (2002)[citation needed]; the 8th Baltic Triennial in Vilnius, Lithuania (2002)[citation needed]; and Drawing Now: Eight Propositions (2002) at the Museum of Modern Art in New York[citation needed].
In 2001 she participated in the exhibition Painting at the Edge of the World at the Walker Art Center.[5]
On September 20, 2005, she was named as one of the 2005 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as the "genius grant."[7] Mehretu was granted the award amid legal issues over her work and the right of first refusal contracts between her gallery and a collector. [8]
[edit] Selected Solo Exhibitons
- 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, MO
- 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
- Déjà-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, Minneapolis (travelling)
- 2002
- Julie Mehretu: Renegade Delirium, 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
[edit] References
- ^ Mason, Christopher (February 28, 2005), “She Can't Be Bought”, New York Magazine, <http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/art/11265/>. Retrieved on 10 March 2008
- ^ The Project : A contemporary art gallery located in New York
- ^ White Cube
- ^ pennymccallfoundation.org
- ^ a b walkerart.org
- ^ White Cube — Renegade Delirium
- ^ Houston Chronicle http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/ae/art/3375771
- ^ João Ribas (November 8, 2005), Julie Mehretu, ARTINFO, <http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/1168/julie-mehretu/>. Retrieved on 22 April 2008
