Wangechi Mutu
- Introduction
- Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) is a Kenyan-American visual artist known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work. Born in Kenya, she has lived and established her career in New York for more than twenty years. Mutu's work has directed the female body as subject through collage painting, immersive installation, and live and video performance all the while exploring questions of self-image, gender constructs, cultural trauma, and environmental destruction.
- Wikidata
- Q457420
- Nationalities
- African, Kenyan
- Gender
- Female
- Roles
- Artist, Collagist, Installation Artist, Sculptor
- Name
- Wangechi Mutu
- Ulan
- 500341741
Exhibitions
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Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration
Mar 14–Jul 9, 2012
MoMA
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The Modern Myth: Drawing Mythologies in Modern Times
Mar 10–Aug 30, 2010
MoMA
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Out of Time: A Contemporary View
Aug 30, 2006–Apr 9, 2007
MoMA
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Drawing from the Modern, 1975–2005
Sep 14, 2005–Jan 9, 2006
MoMA
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Wangechi Mutu has
6 exhibitionsonline.
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Wangechi Mutu Yo Mama 2003
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Wangechi Mutu One Hundred Lavish Months of Bushwhack 2004
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Wangechi Mutu Eve 2006
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Wangechi Mutu Untitled from Eve 2006
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Wangechi Mutu Untitled from Eve 2006
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Wangechi Mutu Untitled from Eve 2006
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Wangechi Mutu Untitled from Eve 2006
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Wangechi Mutu Untitled from Eve 2006
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Wangechi Mutu Untitled from Eve 2006
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Wangechi Mutu Untitled from Eve 2006
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Wangechi Mutu Untitled from Eve 2006
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