Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory

American artist Julie Mehretu is renowned for her powerful
and often monumental works. Drawing on histories
of art and architecture, they also speak to urgent contemporary
issues such as revolution, migration, global
capitalism and climate change. Published to coincide
with the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia's major
career survey, and focusing on new and recent works
Julie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatory
will include monumental and medium-format paintings,
as well as works on paper dating from the mid-1990s to
the present. The catalogue will provide new and important
scholarship on an artist regarded as one of the most
significant painters of her generation.

JULIE MEHRETU (*1970 Addis Ababa, lives and work New York) is one of the most influential contemporary artists working today. Mehretu has exhibited extensively internationally at major institutions across the US, UK and Europe since the 1990s, including mid-career survey exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2021) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2019).