Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Mutu was born in Kenya and currently creates and lives in New York. With a deep investment in the female subject and issues that pertain to the picture of a post-colonial African, Wangechi manages her meta-global dialogues by masterfully unfolding the complexities of gender, culture, and mass media. Reflecting her varied interests, Mutu samples from printed image sources like medical diagrams, glossy magazines, anthropology, pornographic materials, traditional African arts, and mechanical and hunting publications. The artist’s signature is a remaking of that typical, misguided narrative and placement of the contemporary African and female African. Her work is included in major collections of the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, San Francisco MoMA, New York MoMA, and the Whitney Museum.