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] .

Wangechi Mutu is a contemporary Kenyan artist noted for her work conflating gender, race, art history, and personal identity. Creating complex collages, videos, sculptures, and performances, Mutu’s work features recurring mysterious leitmotifs …

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 (born June 22, 1972, Nairobi, Kenya) is a Kenyan-born artist whose multimedia work reflects her distinctive composite aesthetic and a global point of view. Mutu honed her passion for drawing as a child in Nairobi, where her father’s paper-import business kept her supplied with materials.

2023年8月23日 · 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 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.

2022年8月8日 · 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.”

2013年10月11日 · Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey is the first survey in the United States of this internationally renowned, Brooklyn-based artist. Spanning from the mid-1990s to the present, the exhibition unites more than fifty pieces, including Mutu’s signature large-scale collages as well as video works, never-before-seen sketchbook drawings, a site ...

Born in Nairobi, artist Wangechi Mutu (Kenyan, b.1972) was educated in Great Britain and the United States. Having received a BFA from Cooper Union College in New York in 1996 and an MFA from Yale University in 2000, Mutu creates paintings and collages that incorporate a variety of themes and materials.

Reshaping narratives of womanhood from the art historical canon, Wangechi Mutu’s constructs science fiction-like figures defined by their agency. Combining elements of literature, history, and myth, Wangechi Mutu’s work examines the role of women at the interplay of fact and fiction. Mutu was born and raised in Kenya.