BIOGRAPHY

Wangechi Mutu’s work deals with the very idea of human representation; how we per- ceive 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 Mutu’s 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 encompass-es various techniques and mediums including sculpture, painting, film, installation and collages, Wangechi Mutu’s work features female hybrid creatures and vivid dystopian dreamscapes.

Mutu has participated in several major solo exhibitions in institutions worldwide, most recently, “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” at both the New Museum in New York (2023) and New Orleans Museum of Art (2024); “Thinking Historically in the Present” at the Sharjah Biennial, Arab Emirates (2023); “Wangechi Mutu” at Storm King Art Center, New York (2021); “The Façade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us” at The Metropolitan Museum Art, New York (2019-2020); and “Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You listening?” at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Legion of Honor Museum (2021).

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