Salem Mekuria (born 1947) is an Ethiopian-born independent filmmaker, video artist and educator living in the United States.
She was educated in Axum and in Addis Ababa where she visited the Empress Menen School for Girls and later started studies in architecture at the Haile Selassie I University.
Mekuria earned a MA in education technology and media production from San Francisco State University in 1978.
She later worked at the WGBH TV station in Boston, starting as a secretary but eventually becoming a producer for the Nova series.
[5] Her work has appeared at the 50th Venice Biennale, the CinemAfrica Film Festival in Sweden, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Museum of African Art of the Smithsonian Institution, documenta 11 in Berlin and the New York African Film Festival in New York City.