Julie Mehretu (b. 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian-American artist best known for her densely-layered abstract paintings and prints. Raised in East Lansing, Michigan, and a graduate of East Lansing High School, Mehretu received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan and did a junior year abroad at University Cheik Anta Diop (UCAD) in Dakar, Senegal, then attended the Rhode Island School of Design in ...
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Julie Mehretu (b. 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is an Ethiopian-American artist best known for her densely-layered abstract paintings and prints. Raised in East Lansing, Michigan, and a graduate of East Lansing High School, Mehretu received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan and did a junior year abroad at University Cheik Anta Diop (UCAD) in Dakar, Senegal, then attended 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. Mehretu is represented by The Project gallery in New York City whose director is Christian Haye and shows work with Jay Jopling at the White Cube art gallery in London as well as carlier gebauer in Berlin .
In 2000 she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.
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