BIOGRAPHY

Born: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1970

Resides: New York

Education: Rhode Island School of Design (M.F.A., 1997); Kalamazoo College (B.A., 1992); University Cheik Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal (1990-91)

Solo Exhibitions:

2002
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

2001
The Project, New York.

2001
ArtPace-, A Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas.

1999
"Module," Project Row Houses, Houston.

1998
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston.

1996
"Paintings," Sol Kofler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island.

1995
"Ancestral Reflections," Archive Gallery, New York.

1995
"Ancestral Reflections," Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts.



Group Exhibitions:

2001
"The Americans," Barbican Art Centre, London.

2001
"Painting at the Edge of the World," Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis.

2001
"Freestyle," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Catalogue.

2001
"Artists-in-Residence," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.

2001
"Casino 2001," Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium.

2000
"Selections Fall 2000," The Drawing Center, New York.

2000
"Five Continents and One City," Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City.

2000
"Greater New York," P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center, New York.

2000
"Architecture and Memory," Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren, New York.

1999
"Material, Process, Memory," The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas.

1999
"The Stroke," Exit Art/The First World, New York.

1999
"Texas Draws," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Catalogue

1999
"Sheer Abstraction, Barbara Davies Gallery, Houston.

1998
"Universal Pictures," Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston.

1998
"Text and Territory: Navigating Through Immigration and Dislocation," University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal.

1998
"Millennium Fever," Diverse Works, Houston.

1997
"Annual Graduate Student Exhibition," The Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.

1996
"The Bombastic Righteous Passively Become Apparent Absurdities" (with Benjamin Edwards), Sol Kofler Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island.

Selected Bibliography:

2001
Cotter, Holland. "A Full Studio Museum Show Starts with 28 Young Artists and a Shoehorn." The New York Times (May 11).

2001
Daily, Meghan. "Freestyle." Artforum (May).

2001
Griffin, Tim. "Race Matters."Time Out New York (May 24-31).

2001
"The New Masters."Vibe (May).

2000
Cotter, Holland. "New York Contemporary, Defined 150 Ways." The New York Times (March 6).

2000
Hoptman, Laura. "Crosstown Traffic."frieze (September).

2000
Saltz, Jerry. "Greater Expectations." The Village Voice (March 7-13).

1999
Dewan, Shaila. "Bugs to Beauty."Houston Press (July 30).

1999
Dumbadze, Alexander. "Julie Mehretu and Amy Brock."New Art Examiner (September).