Wangechi Mutu
African · b. 1972 · Painter, Printmaker
Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan American visual artist, known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work. As of 2023, Mutu, Born in Kenya, now splits her time… (Wikipedia)
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Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan American visual artist, known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work. As of 2023, Mutu, Born in Kenya, now splits her time between her studio there in Nairobi and her studio in Brooklyn, New York, where she has lived and worked for over 20 years. Mutu's work has directed the female body as subject through collage painting, immersive installation, and live and video performance while exploring questions of self-image, gender constructs, cultural trauma, and environmental destruction and notions of beauty and power.
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TateJ. Paul Getty MuseumMetropolitan Museum of ArtMuseum of Fine Arts, HoustonMuseum of Modern ArtPérez Art Museum MiamiSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtStudio Museum in HarlemWhitney Museum of American Art
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Afrofuturismcontemporary art
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