Wangechi Mutu (1972)
1972-06-22Nairobi, KenyaKenya, USA
Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan-born American visual artist, known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work.
Born in Kenya, she has lived and established her career in New York City for more than twenty years. Mutu's work has directed the female body as subject through collage painting, immersive installation, and live and video performance all the while exploring questions of self-image, gender constructs, cultural trauma, and environmental destruction, as well as notions of beauty and power.
Date and place of birt: | 22 june 1972, Nairobi, Kenya |
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Nationality: | Kenya, USA |
Period of activity: | XX, XXI century |
Specialization: | Artist, Painter, Sculptor |
Genre: | Performance art, Portrait sculpture, Portrait |
Art style: | Futurism |
Technique: | Collage |