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Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu (1972- ) is a Kenyan-American visual artist, known for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work. Much of Mutu's work has explored the female body as subject through collage, installation, and performance. Mutu is She is interested in questions of gender, cultural trauma and transmission, and environmentalism. Her work also pulls from myths and cultural influences from the "Eastern" and "Western" pantheons creating a unique reference point. Strict dichotomies of East/West, beauty/grotesque, and sacred/profane are of little interest to her.  She is interested in that space in the middle where hybridity thrives.   Mutu received a BFA degree from Cooper Union in 1996 and an MFA in sculpture from Yale School of Art in 2000.
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Medium

Multidisciplinary
Photography
Painting
Sculpture
Performance Art
Collage
Work on paper
Mixed Media
Printmaking
Film

Style

Conceptual
Abstract
Collage

Theme

Gender/Sexuality
Identity
Afrofuturism
Feminism

Regions

Africa
Northeast (USA)

Time Period

Conceptual
Abstract
Collage

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Upcoming Exhibitions

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Past Exhibitions

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