Julie Mehretu — Biography, Exhibitions, Galleries & Auction Results

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Selected Works301

Museum Acquisitions

33 Institutions

Whitney

MoMA

Previous Sales 52

Christie's

Ringside, 1999

$2,637,000

Nov 2025

Sotheby's

Six Bardos: Hymn (Behind the Sun), 2018

$203,200

Oct 2025

Sotheby's

Six Bardos: Transmutation, 2018

Christie's

Christie's

Mumbaphilia (J.E.), 2018

$5,858,000

May 2024

Christie's

Fever graph (algorithm for serendipity), 2013

$4,890,000

May 2024

Sotheby's

Walkers With the Dawn and Morning, 2008

$10,737,500

Nov 2023

Christie's

Blue Magic, 2007

€3,972,500 ($4.4M USD)

Oct 2023

Sotheby's

New Dawn, Sing (for Nina)

Sotheby's

Sotheby's

Christie's

Christie's

Drawing for Helen's Room, 2018

Bought In

Sep 2022

Sotheby's

Emergent Algorithm (Manara Circle, Palestine), 2012

Christie's

Christie's

Christie's

Christie's

Excerpt (citadel), 2003

Christie's

Christie's

Christie's

Looking Back to a Bright New Future, 2003

£2,210,500 ($2.9M USD)

Jun 2015

Christie's

Back to Gondwanaland, 2000

$1,805,000

Nov 2014

Christie's

Excerpt (Molotov Cocktail), 2003

$1,805,000

May 2014

Christie's

Believer's Palace, 2008

$1,805,000

May 2014

Christie's

Untitled (Yellow with Ellipses), 1998

$209,000

Nov 2013

For Sale 2

Marian Goodman Gallery · Artsy

The Wine-Dark-Sea, 2023

Price on request

Ink and acrylic on canvas

Marian Goodman Gallery · Artsy

Corner of Lake and Minnehaha, 2022

Price on request

17-run screen print on White Coventry Rag paper

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Market317 auction results

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$22.9K – $11M

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$2.6M

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$4.4M

11 priced paintings lots

calendar_todayLast Painting Sale

Dec 2025 · $22.9K

Latest priced sale: Codex Monotypes #58 - 55.9 x 73 cm - $6/sq cm

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Paintings: $4.4M medianWorks on paper: $99.8K medianPhotographs: $1.5K medianEditioned prints: $21.0K medianUnclassified lots: $4.8K medianPosters/ephemera: $7.4K medianBooks/portfolios: $2.4K median

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Galleries2

#5 White Cube

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#10 Marian Goodman Gallery

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Prizes & Awards1

MacArthur Fellowship

Winner 2005

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Podcast Interviews6

podcasts Live from Guggenheim New York: Sarah Sze, Julie Mehretu and Yana Peel CHANEL Connects · Sep 24, 2025

Recorded live at Guggenheim New York, celebrated artists Sarah Sze and Julie Mehretu connect with Yana Peel, President of Arts, Culture & Heritage at CHANEL. Through her immersive installations, Sze redefines how we expe…

podcasts Julie Mehretu, presented by BMW - Season 20 - Episode 4 Talk Art · Feb 6, 2024

New Talk Art special episode!!!! We meet ICONIC artist Julie Mehretu, presented by BMW . #AD What does Julie Mehretu think about when creating BMW Art Car 20? Find out on this week’s @TalkArt episode! @RussellTovey and @…

podcasts A brush with... Julie Mehretu A brush with... · Mar 24, 2021

An in-depth podcast conversation on the artist's big influences, from Kara Walker to Chris Abani

podcasts No. 417: Julie Mehretu, Gold Rush Daguerreotypes The Modern Art Notes Podcast · Oct 31, 2019

Episode No. 417 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Julie Mehretu and curator Jane Aspinwall. Please help the program by filling out our 2019 listener survey! This weekend, the Los Angeles County Museum of Ar…

podcasts No. 255: Julie Mehretu The Modern Art Notes Podcast · Sep 22, 2016

Episode No. 255 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Julie Mehretu. Mehretu debuts new work at New York’s Marian Goodman Gallery this weekend. The exhibition will be on view through October 29. Mehretu’s work …

podcasts No. 82: Julie Mehretu The Modern Art Notes Podcast · Oct 31, 2014

Episode No. 82 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Julie Mehretu. Mehretu is currently exhibiting new work at two venues: New York’s Marian Goodman Gallery (through June 22) and London’s White Cube (through J…

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Biennial Selections2

Venice Biennale — Venice

2026 · In Minor Keys · curated by Koyo Kouoh

documenta — Kassel

2012 · documenta (13) · curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

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Education2

Kalamazoo College

Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)

Providence, RI, USA

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Publications13

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Monograph 1

Angelika Platen: Meine Frauen

Hatje Cantz · 2021

Exhibition Catalog 3

Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory

Hatje Cantz · 2025

Julie Mehretu: Black City

Hatje Cantz · 2006

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MoMA Publications · 2006

Group Catalog 2

Meaning Matter Memory: Selections from the Studio Museum in Harlem Collection

Phaidon Press · 2024

A Man Walks Into a Bar: Jokes & Postcards

Hatje Cantz · 2014

Survey 7

BMW Art Cars

Hatje Cantz · 2025

Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists

Thames & Hudson · 2024

No Plan At All: How the Danish Printshop of Niels Borch Jensen Redefined Artists' Prints for the Contemporary World

Hatje Cantz · 2021

Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism

Thames & Hudson · 2019

Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists

Thames & Hudson · 2018

Painting Now

Thames & Hudson · 2015

Art in Flower: Finding Inspiration in Art and Nature

Phaidon Press

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Current Exhibitions0

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Art Gallery of New South Wales

Proximate Cosmologies

Brook Andrew, Michael Riley, Adrián Villar Rojas, Julie Mehretu, Shan Turner-Carroll, Daniel Boyd, Susan Te Kahurangi King

Art Gallery Rd, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

Jan 1, 2027

Art Gallery of NSW: Naala Badu building Proximate Cosmologies Art Gallery of NSW collection Until 2027 Free

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Julie Mehretu’s Advice to Young Artists

Artist Julie Mehretu delivered the commencement address to the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) class of 2026, with Hyperallergic publishing the f…

newsJun 16, 2026

‘This will be timeless’: what art can we expect from Chicago’s $850m Obama Presidential Center?

The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, a privately funded $850 million project opening nearly a decade after Barack Obama left office, features ori…

exhibitionsJun 16, 2026

Processing the Unbearable, Imagining the Radical

Julie Mehretu delivered the 2026 commencement address at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), speaking to the graduating class about the value of…

cultureJun 15, 2026

In the Galleries

Maia Chao's performance "Being Moved" took place on the 7th floor of the Whitney Museum of American Art as part of the Whitney Biennial. Audience memb…

reviewJun 13, 2026

A Better World at the Obama Center

The Obama Presidential Center (OPC) in Chicago, designed by architects Billie Tsien and Todd Williams with landscape architect Michael van Valkenburgh…

reviewJun 11, 2026

The Dealers: Rajiv Menon Connects Cultures

This article from Contemporary Art Review LA profiles dealer Rajiv Menon, focusing on his role in connecting cultures through art. The piece, part of …

peopleJun 9, 2026

Julie Mehretu: Our Days, Like a Shadow (a non-abiding hauntology)

Julie Mehretu's exhibition "Our Days, Like a Shadow (a non-abiding hauntology)" opens at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York from April 14 to June 6, 2…

exhibitionsJun 9, 2026

Who the Art World Is Supporting at the FIFA World Cup 2026

Artsy asked a cross-section of artists, curators, and gallerists which teams they are supporting at the FIFA World Cup 2026, which will be co-hosted b…

cultureJun 9, 2026

Alma Allen Doubles Down on Accusations Against Publicist David Resnicow of Working Against His Venice Biennale Pavilion

Artist Alma Allen has publicly accused veteran art publicist David Resnicow of working against his U.S. Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale. In an In…

newsJun 8, 2026

Betye Saar, Chris Rock, and Tinashe Lit Up MoMA’s 2026 Party in the Garden

On Tuesday night, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) held its annual Party in the Garden benefit, honoring artists Betye Saar and Martin Puryear alongsid…

exhibitionsJun 3, 2026

The Richest Woman in the World Has Done It Again With Her Art Museum—in the Middle of Arkansas

Alice Walton, the Walmart heir and art collector, opened a massive expansion of her Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, on June 2, 2026. …

exhibitionsJun 2, 2026

What the Obama Presidential Center opening in Chicago looks like: public green space, community areas, and a museum full of site-specific art

The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago will open to the public on June 19, 2025, a date chosen to coincide with Juneteenth, the holiday commemoratin…

exhibitionsJun 2, 2026

Interview with Reynaldo Rivera

newsJun 2, 2026

5 gallery founders on reinventing the art trade

Five leading gallerists, including Iwan Wirth of Hauser & Wirth and Jessica Silverman of Jessica Silverman, discuss a new initiative called Basel Excl…

marketJun 2, 2026

painting | Drawings & Notes

This editorial compilation highlights a series of exhibitions and artist profiles focusing on the intimate relationship between drawing, painting, and…

exhibitionsJun 2, 2026

9 LGBTQ+ Artists to Watch, Handpicked by Julie Mehretu, Catherine Opie, and Zanele Muholi

Artsy Editorial presents a curated list of nine emerging LGBTQ+ artists, selected by three influential queer artists: Julie Mehretu, Catherine Opie, a…

cultureJun 2, 2026

She was one of the most powerful women in the art world. Three works from her collection could sell for nearly $150 million

This article details the historic sale of three major artworks from the private collection of the late Agnes Gund, the former president of the Museum …

marketJun 2, 2026

‘Like a Klingon prison’: inside Barack Obama’s audacious, near-windowless, $850m presidential library

The article describes the upcoming opening of Barack Obama's $850 million presidential library on Chicago's South Side, designed by Tod Williams Billi…

newsJun 2, 2026

Whitney Museum workers rallied outside fundraising gala amid contract negotiations

On May 19, unionized workers at the Whitney Museum of American Art rallied outside the museum's annual fundraising gala, which honored artist Julie Me…

newsMay 27, 2026

Ties that Build: In Conversation with Natalia Bradbury Ahead of the 5th Season of TOP CHARITY

The article features an interview with Natalia Bradbury, curator and Executive Director of OmenaArt Foundation, ahead of the 5th season of TOP CHARITY…

exhibitionsMay 27, 2026

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Past Exhibitions17

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#10 Marian Goodman Gallery

Julie Mehretu Our Days, Like a Shadow (a non-abiding hauntology)

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Julie Mehretu #18Established

Selected Works301

Museum Acquisitions

Previous Sales 52

For Sale 2

Market317 auction results

Galleries2

Prizes & Awards1

Podcast Interviews6

Biennial Selections2

Education2

Publications13

Monograph 1

Exhibition Catalog 3

Group Catalog 2

Survey 7

Current Exhibitions0

Upcoming1

Recent News20

Past Exhibitions17

Art Fair Appearances27

Recent Activity20

Related News5

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