Julie Mehretu 

Mind-Wind Totem Drawings #1, 2025

The American artist Julie Mehretu (b. 1970) is a world-renowned painter who lives and works in New York City. Mehretu’s practice in painting, drawing and printmaking engage us in a dynamic visual articulation of contemporary experience, a depiction of social behavior and the psychogeography of space by exploring palimpsests of history, from geological time to a modern-day phenomenology of the social. Mehretu received an MFA with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1997. A mid-career survey of Mehretu's work toured at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; High Museum, Atlanta; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, from 2019 to 2023. Her largest European solo exhibition to date, entitled Ensemble, was shown at the Pinault Art Foundation, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 2024. Mehretu’s first solo exhibition in Australia, entitled Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory, was recently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney.