Wangechi Mutu

Quick Facts

Full Name	Wangechi Mutu
Occupation	Sculptor
Date Of Birth	Jun 22, 1972(1972-06-22)
Age	52
Birthplace	Nairobi
Country	Kenya
Birth City	Nairobi County
Horoscope	Gemini

Wangechi Mutu Biography

Wangechi Mutu is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on June 22, 1972 in Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya. Internationally-acclaimed Kenyan-born artist and sculptor. One of the most renowned modern African artists.

She and her friend She and rugby player Simon Shaw were both born in Nairobi, Kenya. were both born in Nairobi, Kenya.

Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) is a Kenyan-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 for over 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.

More recently, Mutu has exhibited sculptural installations. In 2006, Mutu and British architect David Adjaye collaborated on a project. They transformed the Upper East Side Salon 94 townhouse in New York into a subterranean dinner- party setting titled Exhuming Gluttony: A Lover’s Requiem. Furs and bullet holes adorned the walls while wine bottles dangled in a careless chandelier- like form above the stained table. The table’s multiple legs resembled thick femurs with visibly delicate tibias, and the whole space had a pungent aroma. The artists strove to show a moment of gluttony. This vicious hunger was seen as a connection between images of The Last Supper, the climate of the current art-buying world, and the war in Iraq.

Her birthplace and childhood was in Nairobi, Kenya, but started her college studies in Wales before making the move into the United States to continue her studies in fine art.

Wangechi Mutu Net Worth

Wangechi Mutu is one of the richest Sculptor from Kenya. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Wangechi Mutu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She relocated from New York City in the 1990s, and started her formal art training. She then earned her M.F.A. at Yale University.

She was awarded”Artist of Year” in the year 2010 in 2010 by Deutsche Bank in 2010. This award gave her the chance to create an exhibit of her work titled “My Dirty Little Heaven,” in The Berlin’s Deutsche Guggenheim.

Mutu was born in 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya. She was educated at Loreto Convent Msongari (1978–1989) and later studied at the United World College of the Atlantic, Wales (I.B., 1991). Mutu moved to New York in the 1990s, focusing on Fine Arts and Anthropology at The New School for Social Research and Parsons School of Art and Design. She earned a BFA from Cooper Union for the Advancement of the Arts and Science in 1996 and a master’s degree in sculpture from Yale School of Art in 2000.

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In 2013, Wangechi Mutu’s first-ever animated video, The End of Eating Everything, was created in collaboration with recording artist Santigold, commissioned by the Nasher Museum of Art. The video was animated by Awesome + Modest.

Facts & Trivia

Wangechi Ranked on the list of most popular Sculptor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Kenya. Wangechi Mutu celebrates birthday on June 22 of every year.

In Fall 2013, the creative team of Wangechi Mutu took part in the main project of the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.

What is Wangechi Mutu known for?

Best known for her collages , Mutu gathered imagery from sources ranging from such magazines as Vogue and National Geographic to old medical illustrations and recombined them into startling hybrid figures in otherworldly landscapes.

What is Wangechi Mutu style?

Contemporary art

Why does Wangechi Mutu make art?

From corruption and violence , Mutu creates a glamorous beauty; her figures empowered by their survivalist adjustment to atrocity, made immune and ‘improved’ by horror and being victims. Wangechi Mutu trained as both a sculptor and anthropologist.

Is Wangechi Mutu a contemporary artist?

Wangechi Mutu is a contemporary Kenyan artist noted for her work conflating gender, race, art history, and personal identity.

What are common themes in Wangechi Mutu's work?

Mutu’s work crosses a variety of mediums, including collage, video, performance, and sculpture, and investigates themes of gender, race, and colonialism. Her work, in part, centers on the violence and misrepresentation experienced by Black women in contemporary society.