# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wangechi-mutu
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:16:39.946Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wangechi-mutu"
name: "Wangechi Mutu"
slug: "wangechi-mutu"
description: "Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan American visual artist, known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work. As of 2023, Mutu, Born in Kenya, 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. Mutu's work has directed the female body as subject through collage painting, immersive installation, and live and video performance while exploring questions of self-image, gender constructs, cultural trauma, and environmental destruction and notions of beauty and power."
tagline: "Kenyan sculptor (born 1972)"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1972-06-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.44
  momentum:             16.53674832962138
  historical:           13.474592
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2589885/"
    handle:    "nm2589885"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.wangechimutu.com/"
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    title: "Wangechi Mutu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wangechi Mutu"
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    title: "Վոնգեչի Մուտու"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Муту, Вонгечи"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "Wangechi Mutu"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump