The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Julie Mehretu

Institution
Whitney Museum of American Art
Grant Cycle
Spring 2019
Amount
$100,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition Support

Julie Mehretu is a mid-career survey that brings together nearly 40 works on paper and 35 paintings dating from 1996 to the present by Julie Mehretu. Co-organized by The Whitney Museum of American Art and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this retrospective of Mehretu’s career covers over two decades of her work that examines history, colonialism, capitalism, geopolitics, war, global uprising, diaspora, and displacement through the artistic strategies of abstraction, architecture, landscape, movement, and, most recently, figuration.


Julie Mehretu
, "Haka (and Riot)," 2019. 
Ink and Acrylic on Canvas
144 x 180 inches
Julie Mehretu
, "Of Other Planes of There (S.R.)," 2018-2019 
Ink and Acrylic on Canvas
108 x 120 inches

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