American artist Julie Mehretu is renowned for her powerful and often monumental works. Drawing on histories of art and architecture, they also speak to urgent contemporary issues such as revolution, migration, global capitalism and climate change. Published to coincide with the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia's major career survey, and focusing on new and recent works Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory will include monumental and medium-format paintings, as well as works on paper da
Julie Mehretu (*1970 in Addis Ababa, lives and works in New York) is one of the most influential contemporary artists today. Since the 1990s, she has exhibited extensively at major institutions across the US, UK, and Europe, including mid-career survey exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2021), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2019).