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Wangechi Mutu
Kenyan sculptor · Kenya · On the map · Artists · Born 1972 · age 54
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.
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Creativity is not just the ability to create; it is the ability to dream, to imagine and to explore.
Art has the power to disrupt, to challenge, and to provoke change.
Through art, we can communicate the deepest aspects of our humanity.
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About this person
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.