Wangechi Mutu

b. 1972, Nairobi, Kenya; lives in Nairobi and New York

Featured Exhibitions
Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild (742-4) (detail), 1991
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Global Positioning Systems 2014

Global Positioning Systems is the second iteration of Pérez Art Museum Miami’s Overview Galleries, in which selections from PAMM’s permanent collection are displayed alongside loans from important private collections. Consisting of six interrelated parts (titled History Painting, Visual Memory, The Uses of History, Urban Imaginaries, The Contested Present, and Forms of Commemoration), this thematic group…
Patty Chang. Still from Untitled (Eels), 2001.
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MY BODY, MY RULES

MY BODY, MY RULES is a group exhibition that examines the mainstream portrayal of women, confronting the stereotypes, violence, limitations, and ideals imposed on the disputed image of the female body.
Kevin Beasley, Untitled (parade), 2016.
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Within Genres

Informed by these interests in art history, the current presentation of the permanent collection— which was installed thematically within two rooms on the first floor and four rooms on the second—is organized around the historical criteria of genres within Western painting and the traditional hierarchy of genres that developed out of the Renaissance period and was promoted…