Artist
Wangechi Mutu
Kenyan, b. 1972
Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan Contemporary Abstract artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Wangechi Mutu was born in Nairobi.
Wangechi Mutu (; born 1972) 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.
Works by Wangechi Mutu
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