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This Manifestation of Historical Restlessness (from Robin’s Intimacy)
2022 · Ten-panel etching with aquatint
sheet (each): 46 3/4 × 34 5/8" (118.7 × 87.9 cm); overall: 93 1/2 × 173 1/8" (237.5 × 439.7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Julie Mehretu
1970
WA-00001366
InstallationContemporary
Representation
None documented
1
Institutional Exhibitions
53
Works in Collection
149
Assets Indexed
13
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Authority Records (2)
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Julie Mehretu: Our Days, Like a Shadow (a non-abiding hauntology)
Marian Goodman Gallery
Field Verification (6 fields)
3 cross-verified · 3 single-source
- Primary mediumWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
- Birth yearArtsy + Unknown· 92%✓
- BiographyWikipedia + Unknown· 88%✓
- NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%
- LocationArtsy + Wikidata+1· 85%
- DeceasedUnknown· 20%
Source Registry (5)
- Marian-GoodmanTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- Christies-ArtsyTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- SothebysTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- White-CubeTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
Julie Mehretu makes large-scale, multi-layered paintings in which abstracted urban landscapes accumulate into dense, dynamic compositions. Working across painting, drawing, and print, she builds imagery that registers the cumulative pressures of sociopolitical change on cities and their architectures. Born in Addis Ababa and based in the United States, her practice operates at a scale that transforms architectural notation and cartographic mark-making into something closer to atmospheric turbulence. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among other major institutions.
Source: Marian Goodman · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago
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Movement
Contemporary
Medium
Installation
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Artworks (53)
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Artwork sources (4)
53 published of 101 catalogued · 94 with image
- MoMA48 publishedof 96 catalogued93 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art2 published
- Whitney2 published
- Art Institute Chicago1 published1 img
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 2)
2 entries · 1 sources
- 2018 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
- 2007 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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Images
47 assets
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Relationships
7Institutional
Representation & Collections
Gallery
Marian Goodman Gallery
In collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
In collection
Cleveland Museum of Art
In collection
Art Institute of Chicago
In collection
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Background
Education
Kalamazoo College
Visual Arts
Rhode Island School of Design
Visual Arts
East Lansing High School
Visual Arts
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