Artist's arttributes:
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Female |
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Painting, Works on Paper |
Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 96 |
| Germany | 12 |
| United Kingdom | 7 |
| Spain | 6 |
| France | 5 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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The Studio Museum in Harlem, USA |
4 |
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The Project, USA |
4 |
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Walker Art Center, USA |
3 |
Biography: 
1970 Born in Addis Ababa (ET)
Lives and works in New York
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 152  from 1.9.
until 29.9.
until 1.9.
until 30.6.
Solo shows 25
2013
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| Julie Mehretu - Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris |
2012
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| Julie Mehretu - The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY |
2011
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| Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu - Davison Art Center, Middletown |
2010
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| Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY |
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| Julie Mehretu: Grey Area - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Julie Mehretu: Grey Area - - Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (closed, 2013) |
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| Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu - Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN |
2008
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| Julie Mehretu: City Sitings - North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC |
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| Julie Mehretu: City Sitings - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA |
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| Julie Mehretu — New Drawings - Kresge Art Museum, Lansing, MI |
2007
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| Julie Mehretu: City Sitings - The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI |
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| Julie Mehretu - Reflexive Drawings - Simon Fraser University Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC |
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| Julie Mehretu - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebćk |
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| Julie Mehretu - Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover |
2006
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| Julie Mehretu - Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon |
2005
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| currents 95: Julie Mehretu - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Julie Mehretu - - The Project, New York City, NY (closed) |
2004
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| Julie Mehretu - REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Julie Mehretu - Matrix 211 - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Julie Mehretu: Drawing Into Painting - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Julie Mehretu - Galerie Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin |
2003
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| Julie Mehretu - Drawing into Painting - - The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA), Lake Worth, FL (closed) |
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| Julie Mehretu - Drawing into painting - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
2001
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| Julie Mehretu - - The Project, New York City, NY (closed) |
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| Julie Mehretu - Artpace - San Antonio, San Antonio, TX |
Group shows 123
2012
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| Group Exhibition - Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Tracing the Century: Drawing as a Catalyst for Change - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England) |
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| Documenta (13) - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Pothole - Salon 94 Bowery, New York City, NY |
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| The Painting Factory: Abstraction after Warhol - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
2011
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| Multiplicity - Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
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| Immaterial - Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX |
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| Highpoint Editions – Decade One - Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Highpoint Editions—Decade One - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Shift And Flow - Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs (DGCP), New York City, NY |
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| A View from Above - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Elogio del dubbio - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
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| In Praise of Doubt - Punta della Dogana - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
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| Collection Platform 1: Circulation - PinchukArtCentre, Kiev |
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| Three Artists - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2010
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| Painting and Sculpture - Lehmann Maupin, New York City, NY |
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| Picasso to Julie Mehretu - British Museum, London (England) |
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| Immaterial - Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX |
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| Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in 4 Acts: Act 2: Subversive Abstraction - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
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| New Works: Prints, Drawings, Collages - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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| Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action - White Cube - Hoxton Square, London (England) |
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| The Facebook Show - Museum of New Art - MONA, Pontiac (MI) |
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| Hecate´s Lab - Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Wall to Wall - Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| With or Without You: Art in Harlem, 2000 - 2006 - - Triple Candie, New York City, NY (closed, 2010) |
2009
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| Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| The Passionate Pursuit: Gifts and Promised Works from Donna and Cargill MacMillan, Jr. - Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
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| Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture - Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL |
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| Visiones de Confin - IVAM - Institut Valenciŕ d'Art Modern, Valencia |
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| Der Schmerz sitzt tief - Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim |
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| Saints and Sinners - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA |
2008
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| Las Líneas de la mano - Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo - MUAC, Mexico City |
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| INPUT - Colecçăo Sindika Dokolo - Museu Nacional de História Natural, Luanda |
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| Prospect.1 New Orleans - Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, LA |
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| Under the Influence - Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, CA |
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| Drawn to Detail - DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA |
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| Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention - Stevenson, Cape Town |
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| New Prints 2008/Spring - International Print Center New York, New York City, NY |
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| I Bought the Brooklyn Bridge - Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin |
2007
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| Recent Acquisitions : From the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO |
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| New Directions in American Drawing - Knoxville Museum of Art (KMA), Knoxville, TN |
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| Existencias - Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon |
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| Lines - Texas Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| Wittgenstein in New York - Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, Bayreuth |
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| New Directions in American Drawing - Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA |
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| Africa Remix - Contemporary art of a continent - Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg |
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| Comic Abstraction - Image-Breaking, Image-Making - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| New Directions in American Drawing - The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA |
2006
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| Super Vision - ICA - Institute of Contemporary ArtBoston, Boston, MA |
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| Distant Relatives/Relative Distance - Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg |
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| 2° Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla - BIACS - Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Sevilla |
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| Belief and Doubt - Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
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| The Grand Promenade - National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens |
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| Archipeinture - Camden Arts Centre, London (England) |
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| Motion On Paper - Ben Brown Fine Arts, London (England) |
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| Feeling the line - Marian Goodman Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Remote Viewing. Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Marks of Intention. Abstract Art on Paper 1945-2005 - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
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| 15th Biennale of Sydney 2006 - Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
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| Distant Relatives/Relative Distance - Stevenson, Cape Town |
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| Africa Remix - Contemporary Art of a Continent - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| Archipeinture - FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris |
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| When Artists Say We - Artists Space, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Swarm - The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Mapping Space - - MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL (closed, 2013) |
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| On Line" - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebćk |
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| New Prints 2005/Autumn - International Print Center New York, New York City, NY |
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| Baroque and Neobaroque / The Hell of the Beautifull - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca |
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| Wittgenstein in New York - Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin |
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| Remote Viewing - Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| African Remix - l'art contemporain d'un continent - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| PERFECTING SUPERSTATE - Okno Gallery, Chelyabinsk |
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| Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Sammlung Deutsche Bank - - Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (closed, 2013) |
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| Collection in Context - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| Recent Acquisitions - From the Grunwald Center - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Mythologies - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Firewall - Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart |
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| Desenhos A-Z - Porta 33, Funchal |
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| Africa Remix – Contemporary Art of a Continent - Hayward Gallery, London (England) |
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| New Prints 2005/Winter - International Print Center New York, New York City, NY |
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| Landings - Susan Inglett Gallery, New York City, NY |
2004
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| The Print Show - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
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| four color pen show - Locust Projects, Miami, FL |
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| 54th Carnegie International - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
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| 26° Bienal de Săo Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, Săo Paulo |
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| Afrika Remix - Zeitgenössische Kunst eines Kontinents - Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf |
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| Back To Paint - C & M Arts, New York City, NY |
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| Bck to Paint - L&M Arts, New York, New York City, NY |
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| Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| Firewall - Kunsthalle Münster, Münster |
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| 2004 Whitney Biennial Exhibition - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism - Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
2003
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| Outlook - Benaki Museum, Athens |
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| 8th International İstanbul Biennial 2003 - International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul |
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| Hands on, Hands down - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| Prague Biennale 1 - Prague Biennale, Prague |
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| Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Social Strategies - Redefining social realism - University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, Il |
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| GNS (Global Navigation System) - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| Ethiopian Passages - Dialogues in the Diaspora - National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC |
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| The Moderns - Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin |
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| MetaScape - The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |
2002
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| Out of Site - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Stalder – Solakov – Mehretu - Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun |
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| Busan Biennale 2002 - The Busan Biennale, Busan |
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| The 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art - Centre of Attraction - The Baltic Triennial of International Art, Vilnius |
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| Wallow - - The Project, New York City, NY (closed) |
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| Out of Site: Fictional Architectural Spaces - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Terra Incognita - Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Urgent painting - Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris |
2001
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| Third Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection - LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Freestyle - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| Painting at the Edge of the World - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Fresh - The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection 1998-2000 - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
2000
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| Selections Fall 2000 - The Drawing Center, New York City, NY |
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| Glenn Brown, Julie Mehretu, Peter Rostovsky - - The Project, New York City, NY (closed) |
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| Greater New York: New Art in New York Now - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Architecture And Memory - CRG Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Architecture & Memory - Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY |
1999
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| Texas Draws - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| The Stroke: An Overview of Contemporary Painting - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
Dealer Directory 8 |
Germany
| | Galerie Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin
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United Kingdom
| | White Cube - Hoxton Square, London (England)
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| | White Cube - Mason´s Yard, London (England)
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USA
| | Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
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| | Marian Goodman Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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| | Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
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Collections 5

Denmark
| | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebćk
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Germany
| | Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
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South Africa
| | Unisa Art Gallery, Pretoria
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USA
| | The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
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| | The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY
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Catalogs
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