LACMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art Announce Mid-Career Survey of Julie Mehretu
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 35 paintings with 40 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, curator of contemporary art at LACMA, with Rujeko Hockley, assistant curator at the Whitney.
Where: Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles, CA
November 3, 2019–March 22, 2020 (BCAM, Level 1)
November 3, 2019–May 17, 2020 (BCAM, Level 3)
Whitney Museum of American Art | New York, NY
June 26–September 20, 2020
High Museum of Art | Atlanta, GA
October 24, 2020–January 31, 2021
Walker Art Center | Minneapolis, MN
March 13–July 11, 2021
© Julie Mehretu, photograph courtesy of the Carnegie Museum of Art © Julie Mehretu, photograph by Tom Powel Imaging © Julie Mehretu, photograph by Berndt Borchardt © Julie Mehretu, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
