Exhibition

Profile

• Born 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya. Based in Nairobi, Kenya and New York, USA.

Wangechi Mutu’s work deals with the very idea of human representation; how we perceive and reproduce images of what we believe we are, how we view others and create images of what we think of them. In her ongoing conversations with figuration, what her work looks at our value systems in Art and beyond, that either obscure or elevate our image and reflections. Internationally renowned for a practice that encompasses various techniques and mediums including sculpture, painting, film, installation and collages, Wangechi Mutu’s work features female hybrid creatures and vivid dystopian dreamscapes.

Selected exhibitions

2023–24

Solo exhibition, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, New Museum (New York, USA)/New Orleans Museum of Art (USA)

2023

Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present (UAE)

2022

Solo exhibition, Wangechi Mutu, Storm King Art Center (New York, USA)

2021

Solo exhibition, Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You listening? , Legion of Honor Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (USA)

2019–20

Solo exhibition, The Façade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)

• “Sleeping Serpent” 2014
• Courtesy of the Artist and Victoria Miro London.