Julie Mehretu

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Ethiopian | 1970

Julie Mehretu is an Ethiopian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1970. Her work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York and will be on exhibit at David Zwirner, New York (519 W 19th Street) on October 28, 2025, among other locations. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Getty Center have featured Julie Mehretu's work in the past.Julie Mehretu's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 106 USD to 10,737,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2003 the record price for this artist at auction is 10,737,500 USD for Walkers With the Dawn and Morning, sold at Sotheby's New York in 2023. In the past 12 months, her artworks have averaged 909,126 USD.Julie Mehretu has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in October 2025.

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Featured for Sale

Ringside ,1999

By Julie Mehretu

Christie's New York

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Notable Lots

Walkers With the Dawn and Morning - Julie Mehretu

Walkers With the Dawn and Morning ,2008

By Julie Mehretu

+26%

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Tsunemasa (next to Kaija) - Julie Mehretu

Tsunemasa (next to Kaija) ,2014

By Julie Mehretu

-13%

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Emergent Algorithm (Manara Circle, Palestine)

By Julie Mehretu

+39%

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Ringside ,1999

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Six Bardos: Hymn (Behind the Sun - Julie Mehretu

Six Bardos: Hymn (Behind the Sun ,2018

By Julie Mehretu

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Untitled (Pulse) ,2013

By Julie Mehretu

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Untitled ,2002

By Julie Mehretu

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Current Exhibitions

In Our Time: Eleven Artists + W.E.B. Du Bois

Pratt Institute, Manhattan Gallery

New York | USA

26 Sep, 2025 - 20 Dec, 2025

Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200

Brooklyn Museum of Art

Brooklyn | New York | USA

28 Feb, 2025 - 22 Feb, 2026

Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

St. Louis | Missouri | USA

12 Sep, 2025 - 05 Jan, 2026

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Art Basel Paris concludes Successful Second Edition at the Grand Palais

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鈥� ..While Mehretu is perhaps best known for her monumental paintings that combine architectural maps and city plans, bridging abstraction and an investigation of globalization and identity, her practice has... 鈥�
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Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

鈥� ..Best known for her large-scale paintings and drawings, Mehretu layers maps, urban planning grids and architectural renderings with whorls of abstract markings and bright, colorful shapes... 鈥�
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The Fralin Museum of Art

鈥� ..She is known for her densely layered and mesmerizing abstract paintings, which often gesture to the language of architecture and geography as inspiration for abstract compositions, as well as commentary... 鈥�
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Modern Art Museum: Gebre Kristos Desta Center

鈥� ..Epigraph, Damascus (2016) will feature this newly acquired work by an artist known for her gestural abstract compositions which can be interpreted in this print as poignant and a deeply expressive commentary... 鈥�
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Norton Museum of Art

鈥� ..Steeped with references from classical mythology and Egyptology, to graffiti, abstraction, poetry and politics, Mehretu鈥檚 new paintings capture a gestural force unseen in her work before... 鈥�
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Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

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