Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) is a Kenyan American visual artist, known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work. Born in Kenya, Mutu now splits her time between her studio there in Nairobi and her studio in Brooklyn, New …

Wangechi Mutu is a contemporary Kenyan artist noted for her work conflating gender, race, art history, and personal identity. View Wangechi Mutu’s 205 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

Aug 23, 2023 · Wangechi Mutu, a Kenyan-born artist, centers her work on the female body. Through her collages, sculptures, and video works, Mutu creates powerful matriarchal hybrid figures from elements of human, plant, animal, and mechanical forms.

Aug 8, 2022 · Wangechi Mutu has a problem with art. Or perhaps that should be a problem with the way we think about art. As the Kenyan-American sculptor, painter, filmmaker and performance artist points out, “historically, most of the world’s art isn’t on a canvas, or in a frame.”

Wangechi Mutu (born 22 June 1972) is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Through a variety of media including painting collage, sculpture, performance and video, Wangechi Mutu explores questions of self-image, gender constructs, cultural trauma and environmental destruction.

Wangechi Mutu was born in 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya. In her collages, drawings, sculptures, and films, Mutu centers the female body to create powerful and self-possessed figures that are hybrids of human, plant, animal, and machine forms.

Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) is a Kenyan American visual artist, known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work. [2] Born in Kenya, Mutu 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. [3]

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Wangechi Mutu is a contemporary Kenyan artist noted for her work which engages issues of gender, race, art history, and personal identity. Creating complex collages, sculptures, and performances that draw from the aesthetics of traditional African crafts, Mutu engages in her own form of storytelling; her works document the contemporary myth ...

Aug 15, 2024 · Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan contemporary visual artist best known for certain recurrent themes in her work. These themes interrogate feminism in view of gender constructs and self-image. They also traverse race, cultural trauma and western consumerism in relation to artificial environmental deterioration.