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American artist Julie Mehretu is renowned for her powerfuland often monumental works. Drawing on historiesof art and architecture, they also speak to urgent contemporaryissues such as revolution, migration, globalcapitalism and climate change. Published to coincidewith the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia's majorcareer survey, and focusing on new and recent worksJulie Mehretu: A Transcore of the Radical Imaginatorywill include monumental and medium-format paintings,as well as works on paper dating from the mid-1990s tothe present. The catalogue will provide new and importantscholarship on an artist regarded as one of the mostsignificant 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).