1997 MFA, Honors, Rhode Island School of Design
1992 BA, Kalamazoo College
1990-91 University Cheik Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal

2008 Julie Mehretu: New Drawings, Kresge Museum of Art, East Lansing, USA
2008 Julie Mehretu: City Sitings, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA
2007 "City Citings", The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit
2007 Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
2007 Kunstverein Hannover, Germany
2006 MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo y Léon, Léon, Spain
2005 “Julie Mehretu: Drawings”, The Project, New York
2005 “Currents 95 : Julie Mehretu”, St Louis Art Museum, St Louis
2004 “Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting”, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY / REDCAT, CalArts, Valencia,
2004 carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2003 “Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2007 Bought the Brooklyn Bridge, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
2007 Disguise: The art of attracting and deflecting attention, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town
2007 Vou-te contra uma história: Let me tell you a story, Porta 33, Madeira
2007 Prospect.1, New Orleans Biennale, New Orleans, LA
2007 Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New Yor
2007 “Comic Abstraction”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2006 The 15th Biennale of Sydney, International Festival of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2006 “The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2006 “When Artist`s Say We”, Artist`s Space, New York
2006 “Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing”, St. Louis Art Museum
2005 “Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing”, The Whitney Museum of American Art
2005 “Africa Remix”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2005 “25 Jahre Sammlung Deutsche Bank”, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
2005 “Mythologies”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2004 “Whitney Biennial”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2004 “Sao Paulo Biennial”, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2004 “Carnegie International”, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
2003 “Lazarus Effect,” Prague Biennial 1, Prague, Czech Republic
2003 “The Moderns,” Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turino, Italy
2003 “GPS,” Palais du Tokyo, Paris, France
2002 “Drawing Now: Eight Propositions”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2002 “Stalder-Mehretu-Solakov”, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland
2002 “Out of Site,” New Museum, New York