LACMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art Announce Mid-Career Survey of Julie Mehretu

What: Co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, Julie Mehretu is a mid-career survey that will unite approximately 30 paintings with 32 works on paper dating from 1996 to the present by Julie Mehretu (b. 1970, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). The first-ever comprehensive retrospective of Mehretu’s career, the exhibition covers over two decades of her examination of history, colonialism, capitalism, geopolitics, war, global uprising, diaspora, and displacement through the artistic strategies of abstraction, architecture, landscape, movement, and, most recently, figuration. Mehretu’s play with scale, as evident in her intimate drawings and large canvases and complex techniques in printmaking, will be explored in depth.

Julie Mehretu is curated by Christine Y. Kim, associate curator in contemporary art at LACMA, and Rujeko Hockley, assistant curator at the Whitney.

Where: Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles, CA
November 3, 2019–September 7, 2020
High Museum of Art | Atlanta, GA
October 24, 2020–January 31, 2021
Whitney Museum of American Art | New York, NY
March 19–August 8, 2021
Walker Art Center | Minneapolis, MN
October 16, 2021–March 6, 2022 

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