Wikipedia Entry
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.
Artworks by Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu, Amazing Grace, 2005
artwork
Digital color video, transferred from Super 8 film, with sound, 7 min., 14 sec.
Wangechi Mutu, You tried so hard to make us away, 2005
artwork
Ink, acrylic, glitter, fur, contact paper, and collage on Mylar
100 Highlights and African and African Diaspora
© Wangechi Mutu. Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery
Featured Exhibitions
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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…
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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.
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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…
