EDUCATION

1997

MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

1992

BA, Kalamazoo College, Michigan

1990

University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2020

High Museum, Atlanta

About the space of half an hour, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Iowa

2019

Six Bardos, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

Drawings and Monotypes, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK

2018

SEXTANT, White Cube, London

Marian Goodman Gallery (with Tacita Dean), Paris

2017

A Universal History of Everything and Nothing, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal; Centro Botín, Santander, Spain

HOWL, eon (I, II), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art commission

2016

Struggling With Words That Count (with Jessica Rankin), Carlier Gebauer, Berlin

Hoodnyx, Voodoo and Stelae, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

The Addis Show, Gebre Kristos Desta Center, Addis Ababa

Earthfold (with Jessica Rankin), Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium

Epigraph, Damascus, Niels Borch Jensen Gallery and Editions, Berlin

2014

Half a Shadow, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin

The Mathematics of Droves, White Cube, São Paulo

Myriads Only By Dark, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York

2013

Liminal Squared, White Cube, London

Liminal Squared, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Mind, Breath and Beat Drawings, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu, School of Art and Design, Ohio

University2012 Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu, The Frances Lehman

Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, New York

2010

Notations After The Ring, Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery, Metropolitan Opera House, New York

Grey Area, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

2009

Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu, High Point Prints, Minneapolis,Minnesota Grey Area, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin

2008

Eye of the Storm, Carl Scholsberg Gallery, Montserrat College, Beverly, Massachusetts

New Drawings, Kresge Museum of Art, East Lansing, Michigan

2007

City Sitings, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; North Carolina Museum of Art,

Raleigh, 2008; Williams College Art Gallery, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 2008

Reflexive Drawings, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, Canada

2006

Black City, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain; Kunstverein

Hannover, Germany, 2007; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 2007

Heavy Weather, The Print Center, Philadelphia; Crown Point Press, San Francisco

2005

Currents 95, St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri

Drawings, Projectile Gallery, New York

2004

MATRIX 211 Manifestation, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Carlier Gebauer, Berlin

2003

Drawing into Painting, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; REDCAT, Los

Angeles; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 2004

2002

Renegade Delirium, White Cube, London

2001

Layering Chaos, The Project, New York

Artpace, San Antonio, Texas

1999

Module, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas

1998

Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas

1996

Paintings, Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

1995

Ancestral Reflections, Archive Gallery, New York; Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

Grief and Grievance, Art and Mourning in America, New Museum, New York

2020

Relations: Diaspora and Painting, Fondation Phi pour l’art contemporain, Montreal

Collective Constellation: Selections from the Eileen Harris Norton Collection, Art + Practice, Los Angeles

2019

yasiin bey: Negus, Brooklyn Museum, New York

Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland

Get Up, Stand Up Now, Somerset House, London

May You Live in Interesting Times, 58th Venice Biennale

13th Havana Biennial

The Notational Shift, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain

Drawing Room Biennial 2019, London

2018

Actions: The image of the world can be different, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK

Memory Palace, White Cube, London

2017

Performa Biennial 2017, New York

Gray Matters, Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio

Drawing Biennial 2017, Drawing Room, London

Never free to rest, kurimanzutto, Mexico

Power, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles

Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now From the British Museum, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island; New Mexico Museum of Art, Sante Fe; Ulster Museum, Belfast; The Brynmor Jones Library Art Gallery, University of Hull, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal

Age of Terror: Art Since 9/11, Imperial War Museum, London

I am you, you are too, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

An Incomplete History of Protest, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2016

In Context: Africans in America, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg

Come as you are: Art from the 1990s, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas

Encounters Beyond Borders: Contemporary Artists from the Horn of Africa, Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio State University, Athens, Ohio

Shifting Views: People & Politics in Contemporary African Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland

L’iris de Lucy, Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, France

2015

40th Anniversary Gala, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia

Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to the Digital Sublime, Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal

Drawing Now, Albertina, Vienna

Drawing: The Bottom Line, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium

The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L., National Gallery of Art, Washington; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

From Above, Di Donna Gallery, New York

Liberated Subjects: Present Tense, Foundation de 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium

Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory Revisited by Contemporary Artists, National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian, Washington, DC

The Past, The Present, The Possible, 12th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates

2014

The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Painting, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art

Special Project for the 20th Anniversary of Gwangju Biennale: Sweet Dew – Art

Since 1980, Gwangju Museum of Art

Seeking New Geneology – Art, Body, Performance, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Summer Highlights, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco

Love Story, Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection, Belvedere, Vienna

Dak’art, Biennal of Contemporary Art, Dakar, Senegal

Interact, East Wing Collection, Courtauld Institute, London

Landscape, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Italy

#1, 1st International Biennale of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

Fusion: Arts of the 21st Century, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

Die Göttliche Komödie, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Mind the Map, Punkt Ø, Oslo

2013

The Gesture and the Sign, White Cube, São Paulo

Du Bois in Our Time, Amherst’s University Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts

The Temptation of the Diagram, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

Turbulences II, Villa Empain, Fondation Boghossian, Brussels

À Triple Tour, Conciergerie Paris

More Light, 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art

Yes, No, Maybe, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Collection Platform 4: Emotion and Technology, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine

Highpoint editions: Decade One, Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Massachusetts

Una Posibilidad de Escape Para Asaltar El Estudio De La Realidad Y Volver A

Grabar El Universo, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain

2012

Highlights 2012, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco

Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany

The Painting Factory, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Tracing the Century: Drawing as a Catalyst for Change, Tate Liverpool, UK

2011

New Order, White Cube, London

Multiplicity, Smithsonian, Washington, DC

The Bearden Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

Seeing/Knowing, Graham Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gamier, Ohio

In Praise of Doubt, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy

Three Artists: Julie Mehretu, Julian Lethbridge, Wayne Gonzales, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco

Shift and Flow, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York

Inside the Painter’s Studio, Bakalar & Paine Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2010

Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London

From Picasso to Julie Mehretu: Modern Drawing in the Collection of the British Museum, London

Subversive Abstraction, Whitechapel Gallery, London

Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery,

New Haven, Connecticut; David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, College Park Immaterial, Ballroom Marfa, Texas

Keeping it Real, Act 2: Subversive Abstraction, Whitechapel Gallery, London

On Line: Drawing Through the 20th Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands

2009

Automatic Cities, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

Who’s Afraid of the Artists?, Palais des Arts du Dinard, France

Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Valencia, Spain

Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois

Untitled (History Painting): Painting and Public Life in the 21st Century, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor

Der Schmerz sitzt tief, Stiftung Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Germany

2008

Prospect 1, New Orleans Biennale

Vou-te contra uma história: Let me tell you a story, Porta 33, Madeira, Portugal

Collection of Greenberg-Rohatyn, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

The Cosmos: A Group Exhibition, Crown Point Press Gallery, San Francisco

Drawn to Detail, Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts

Disguise: The Art of Attracting and Deflecting Attention, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town

I Bought the Brooklyn Bridge, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

2007

Multiplex: Directions in New Art 1970 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York

African Art Today: An Unbounded Vista, Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri New Directions in American Drawing, Columbus Art Museum, Ohio; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia

Cosmic Abstraction, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Collector’s Choice III, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida

Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora, Nelson Atkins

Museum, Kansas City, Missouri

Paper Trail: A Decade of Acquisitions, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa

2006

Super Vision, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts Green Flame, New Crowned Hope Festival, Vienna

Mapping Space: Selections from the Collection, Miami Art Museum

The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society, 2nd International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain

Belief & Doubt, Aspen Art Center, Colorado

Archpeinture, Painters Build Architecture, Camden Arts Centre, London

Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri

Zones of Contact, 15th Biennale of Sydney

Distant Relatives/Relative Distance, Michael Stevenson Contemporary, Cape Town

Freeing the Line, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

When Artist’s Say We, Artists Space, New York

ARCO’06, Madrid

The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Visual Arts Jury Show, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts

The Art of Etching at Crown Point Press, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Collection in Context: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum, Harlem, New York

2005

Swarm, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Baroque and neobaroque, DA2 Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain

This Storm that We Call Progress, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

25: Twenty-five Years of the Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin

Mythologies, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, PaceWildenstein, New York

Landings, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York

Prints into Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

On Line, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

Insight, San Diego Museum of Art

Mapping Space: Selections from the Collection, Miami Art Museum, Florida

2004

Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

26th Bienal de São Paulo

Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Gremany; Hayward Gallery, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Back to Paint, L&M Arts, New York

Firewall, Ausstellungshalle Zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster, Germany

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2003

Outlook, International Art Exhibition, Athens

Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennial

Lazarus Effect, Prague Biennale

GNS, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art, 1970-2000, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio

Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora, National Museum for African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Metascape, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara

The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

2002

Stalder-Mehretu-Solakov, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland

Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Busan Biennale, Busan Metropolitan Museum, Korea

Centre of Attraction, 8th Baltic Triennale of International Art, Vilnius, Lithuania

Wallow, The Project, New York

Out of Site, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

Terra Incognita: Contemporary Artists’ Map and Other Visual Organizing Systems, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Urgent Painting, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris

2001

Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

The Americans, Barbican Art Gallery, London

Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Freestyle, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

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, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York

Translations, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-onHudson, New York

Glenn Brown, Julie Mehretu, Peter Rostovsky, The Project, New York

Artistic Centers in Texas, Houston-Galveston, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton

Architecutre and Memory, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren, New York

1999

Material, Process, Memory, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas

Hot Spots: Houston, Miami and Los Angeles, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina

Core 1999, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Sheer Abstraction, Barbara Davies Gallery, Houston, Texas

Artistic Centers in Texas, Houston-Galveston, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton

Association Galveston, San Angelo, El Paso, Austin, Texas

The Stroke, Exit Art, New York

Texas Draws, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

1998

Universal Pictures, Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, Texas

Text and Territory: Navigating through Immigration and Dislocation, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal

Core 1998, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Millenium Fever¸ Diverse Works, Houston, Texas

1997

Annual Graduate Student Exhibition, The Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

1996

The Bombastic Righteous Passively Become Apparent Absurdities (with Benjamin Edwards), Sol Koffler Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

1995

A Woman’s View, The World Bank International Women’s Exhibition, The World

Bank Art Program, Washington, DC

Yewenshet, Three Ethiopian Painters, Brooklyn Public Library, New York

SELECTED AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2020

School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts Medal, Boston

2018

Liberty Award for Artistic Leadership, New York

2015

US Department of State Medal of Arts Award

2013

Fred Thieler Prize, Berlinische Galerie

Barnett and Analee Newman Award

2010

Carnegie Art Award, Carnegie Investment Bank

2007

Berlin Prize, Guna S. Mundheim Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin

2006

Alumni Council Artistic Achievement Award, The Rhode Island School of Design

2005

American Art Award, Whitney Museum of Art, New York

Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, Kalamazoo College, Michigan

MacArthur Fellow

2003

Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant

Artist in Residence, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California

2002

Penny McCall Foundation Grant

2001

Pat Hearn Inaugural Award

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant

Artist in Residence, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

1997

CORE Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

1995

Presidential Scholar Fall Tuition Award, The Rhode Island School of Design