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 is a Kenyan-born artist whose work has received international acclaim for exploring gender, race, and cultural identity. Mutu’s work is known for its striking imagery, which combine collage, drawing, and painting, as well as her inventive use of materials.

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, Kenyan-born artist whose multimedia work often focuses on society’s convention to project all ‘that is desired or despised’ on the body of women. She is known for such collages as The Root of All Eves (2010), such films as The End of carrying All (2010), and such sculptures as The Seated I–IV (2019).

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.

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 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 ...