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Wangechi Mutu

1972

WA-00001166

PaintingContemporary

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WikidataQ457420

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1 cross-verified · 1 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%

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Victoria-Miro
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred60%

About

Why this artist matters now

Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan American visual artist, known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work. Born in Kenya, Mutu 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.

Source: Victoria Miro · Trust score: 60% · Updated 2mo ago

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Contemporary

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Museum of Modern ArtNew York

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Artworks (16)

girl from the portfolio The Met 150

2021 · Lithograph and screenprint with hand-applied gold pigment

15 × 15" (38.1 × 38.1 cm)

82 1/2 × 33 1/2 × 44 in., 855 lb. (209.6 × 85.1 × 111.8 cm, 387.8 kg)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Seated I

2019 · Bronze

79 1/8 × 33 1/2 × 44 1/2 in., 842 lb. (201 × 85.1 × 113 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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My Strength Lies

2006 · Ink, acrylic, photomechanically printed cut and pasted paper, contact paper, metallic sequin and glitter on two mylar sheets

Each: 98 × 53 in. (248.9 × 134.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Untitled from Eve

2006 · Aquatint with collage additions from a portfolio of five etchings (two with aquatint and collage additions, one with collage additions) and three aquatints (two with collage additions)

composition (irreg): 10 1/4 x 6 1/8" (26 x 15.6 cm); sheet: 10 3/8 x 7 15/16" (26.3 x 20.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Eve

2006 · Aquatint from a portfolio of five etchings (two with aquatint and collage additions, one with collage additions) and three aquatints (two with collage additions)

composition (irreg): 6 x 7 1/2" (15.3 x 19 cm); sheet: 10 3/8 x 7 15/16" (26.3 x 20.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Eve

2006 · Etching from a portfolio of five etchings (two with aquatint and collage additions, one with collage additions) and three aquatints (two with collage additions)

composition (irreg): 1 9/16 x 2 15/16" (4 x 7.5 cm); sheet: 10 7/16 x 8" (26.5 x 20.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Eve

2006 · Portfolio of five etchings (two with aquatint and collage additions, one with collage additions) and three aquatints (two with collage additions)

composition: see child records; sheet (each): 10 7/16 x 7 15/16" (26.5 x 20.2 cm); box: 12 5/16 × 9 13/16 × 1 15/16" (31.3 × 25 × 5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Eve

2006 · Etching and aquatint with collage additions from a portfolio of five etchings (two with aquatint and collage additions, one with collage additions) and three aquatints (two with collage additions)

composition and sheet (irreg.): 10 1/4 × 7 5/8" (26 × 19.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Eve

composition (irreg): 8 9/16 x 5 1/2" (21.7 x 14 cm); sheet: 10 7/16 x 7 7/8" (26.5 x 20 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Eve

2006 · Etching from a portfolio of five etchings (two with aquatint and collage additions, one with collage additions) and three aquatints (two with collage additions)

composition (irreg): 4 x 5 1/8" (10.2 x 13 cm); sheet: 10 7/16 x 7 15/16" (26.5 x 20.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Eve

2006 · Aquatint with collage additions from a portfolio of five etchings (two with aquatint and collage additions, one with collage additions) and three aquatints (two with collage additions)

composition (irreg): 6 5/16 x 6" (16.1 x 15.2 cm); sheet: 10 7/16 x 7 15/16" (26.5 x 20.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from Eve

2006 · Etching with collage additions from a portfolio of five etchings (two with aquatint and collage additions, one with collage additions) and three aquatints (two with collage additions)

composition and sheet (irreg.): 10 5/16 × 7 7/8" (26.2 × 20 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

One Hundred Lavish Months of Bushwhack

2004 · Cut-and-pasted printed paper with watercolor, spray paint, and pressure-sensitive stickers on transparentized paper

68 1/2 x 42" (174 x 106.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Yo Mama

2003 · Ink, mica flakes, acrylic, pressure-sensitive film, cut-and-pasted printed paper, and painted paper on paper

Overall: 59 1/8 x 85" (150.2 x 215.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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16 published of 16 catalogued · 12 with image

MoMA
13 published12 img
The Met
3 published

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Museum of Modern Art Artsy Phillips

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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