Wangechi Mutu

Internationally renowned for her formidable work including collage, paintings, film, installation, and sculpture, Wangechi Mutu explores questions of self-representation, gender constructs, cultural trauma, and environmental degradation, and their interconnections. She was first recognized for paintings and collages that examined myriad forms of violence and misrepresentation visited upon women, especially Black women. With her characteristic morphing, hybrid, and organic forms, she portrays shared and inherent alienations that often appear as powerful hybrid female creatures within dystopian dreamscapes. In Mutu’s work, the figure becomes a place through which to rewrite and reimagine oneself and to break certain codes in both the man-made and natural worlds. Her visual language is further enriched by experimentation with unexpected materials, some imbued with cultural signifiers, like Kenyan tea, volcanic red soil, gems, and seeds. Mutu’s work presents a visceral and compelling discourse within dominant modes of representation.

Wangechi Mutu was born in 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya, and she works in New York and Nairobi. In 2019, she was commissioned to create sculptures for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Fifth Avenue façade niches—the first-ever such installation on Met Museum’s historic exterior – inaugurating a new annual series.

Recent exhibitions include Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, New Museum, New York; What Is Left Unspoken, Love, at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina; Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (2021); University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, (2020 – 2021); A Promise to Communicate, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA (2018); Wangechi Mutu: The End of eating Everything, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX (2018); Water Woman, The Contemporary Austin, TX (2017); Journeys into Peripheral Worlds, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines (2017); Banana Stroke, Performa 17 Biennial, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2017); The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2016); SITE Santa Fe (2016); the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (2014); the Mary and Leigh Block Museum, Northwestern University, Illinois (2014); the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, touring to Orange County Museum, California (both 2013); Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal (2012); Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, (2012); Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2010); Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario (2010); Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (2009); and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2008).

Her work was featured at the 56th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Venice Biennale (2015), and has been presented in exhibitions at institutions including Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA (2019); travelled to Gibbes Museum, Charleston (2019); Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, MI (2019); Smith College Museum of Art, MA (2020); Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2021); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City (2021); The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. (2020); Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (2020); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2020); Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA (2019); MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (2019); Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina (2018); Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX (2018); Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo (MAXXI), Rome, Italy (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art Africa inaugural exhibition, Cape Town (2017–2019); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2020, 2017 and 2014); Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2017); Studio Museum in Harlem (2017); Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2016- 2017); Fondazione Prada, Milan (2016); Yale University School of Art, New Haven (2016); Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco (2016); the Grand Palais, Paris (2015); Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco (2015); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek (2015); Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC (2015 and 2014); Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2014); Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (2013); Tate St. Ives, United Kingdom (2013); National Gallery of Canada, Ontario (2013); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2012); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); Brooks Art Museum, Memphis (2012); MOCA, Los Angeles (2010); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver (2010); Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom (2010); 10th Biennale d’art Contemporain de Lyon (2009); and The New Museum, New York (2008). Wangechi Mutu received the 2010 Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year award.

She is the recipient of the African Art Award from the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, National Artist Award from Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Cultural Leadership Award from the American Foundation of Arts, United States Artist Grant, and Artist of the Year Awards from both the Brooklyn Museum and Deutsche Guggenheim.

Wangechi Mutu “I am Speaking, Can you hear me?,” 2020 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“I am Speaking, Can you hear me?,” 2020
Soil. paper pulp, wood glue, charcoal, bone, feathers, shells, wood, metal stands
Total overall size: 66" x 70" x 23"; gap between installed works is 13" across
Inventory #MUT505
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Wangechi Mutu “Metastasis III and Metastasis IV,” 2016 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Metastasis III and Metastasis IV,” 2016
Watercolor on paper
Diptych: 16.125 x 12.125" [HxW] (40.95 x 30.79 cm) each sheet; 18.5 x 14.5 x 1.5" [HxWxD] (46.99 x 36.83 x 3.81 cm) each framed; overall dimensions vary
Inventory #MUT441
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
Signed and dated recto

This image depicts an artwork by Wangechi Mutu titled "The End of carrying All." This artwork was created in 2015 and measures TRT: 10 mins 45 sec (looped). Its medium is 3 Channel Animated Video (color, sound). — **Wangechi Mutu**
“The End of carrying All,” 2015
3 Channel Animated Video (color, sound)
TRT: 10 mins 45 sec (looped)
Edition 3 of 3, 2 AP
Inventory #MUT423.03
Courtesy of Gladstone Gallery, New York, Victoria Miro, London and Vielmetter Los Angeles

Wangechi Mutu “The birth of a mud queen,” 2012 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“The birth of a mud queen,” 2012
Collage on linoleum
62.50" H x 74.25" W x 3" D (158.75 cm H x 188.6 cm W x 7.62 cm D) framed
Inventory #MUT360
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Wangechi Mutu “Sit squat siamese,” 2012 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Sit squat siamese,” 2012
Collage on linoleum
25.75" H x 23.75" W Framed (65.41 cm H x 60.33 cm W Paper Size)
Inventory #MUT352
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Wangechi Mutu “Lion chase duo,” 2012 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Lion chase duo,” 2012
Collage on linoleum
25.75" H x 23.75" W (65.41 cm H x 60.33 cm W)
Inventory #MUT350
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Wangechi Mutu “Scene twice,” 2012 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Scene twice,” 2012
Collage on linoleum in custom frame
25" H x 23.75" W (63.5 cm H x 60.33 cm W)
Inventory #MUT351
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
Signed on Artist Certificate

Wangechi Mutu, She seas dance, 2012, Iridescent, white and gold PVC, Louver styrene, 3 channel projections, 177, Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer — **Wangechi Mutu**
"She seas dance," 2012
Iridescent, white and gold PVC, Louver styrene, 3 channel projections
177
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Wangechi Mutu “The Storm,” 2012 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“The Storm,” 2012
Collage on linoleum
75.75" H x 116" W x 3" D (192.41 cm H x 294.64 cm W x 7.62 cm D)
Inventory #MUT361
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Wangechi Mutu “All the way up, all the way out,” 2012 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“All the way up, all the way out,” 2012
Collage on linoleum
76.5" H x 54.75" W (194.31 cm H x 139.07 cm W)
Inventory #MUT359
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Wangechi Mutu “Chin rest with cut-eye,” 2012 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Chin rest with cut-eye,” 2012
Mixed media and collage on linoleum
43.50" H x 33" W (110.49 cm H x 83.82 cm W) framed
Inventory #MUT338
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Wangechi Mutu “Pretty Double-Head,” 2010 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Pretty Double-Head,” 2010
Mixed-media, ink, collage, spray paint on Mylar
34 x 41.75" [HxW] (86.36 x 106.04 cm) mylar size; 39 x 46.5 x 2" [HxWxD] (99.06 x 118.11 x 5.08 cm) framed
Inventory #MUT314
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Wangechi Mutu “Fallen Heads,” 2010 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Fallen Heads,” 2010
Collage, ink, mixed media on mylar
154.94 x 271.78 x 6.35 cm or 61" x 107" x 2.5" framed dimensions
Inventory #MUT295
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit Bill Orcutt

Wangechi Mutu “The Bride Who Married a Camel's Head,” 2009 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“The Bride Who Married a Camel's Head,” 2009
Mixed media on mylar
106,68 cm x 76,20 cm (42 x 30 inches)
Inventory #MUT296
Courtesy of Deutsche Bank Collection, Germany

Wangechi Mutu “Queen of messes,” 2012 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Queen of messes,” 2012
Collage on linoleum
35.5" H x 27.75" W (90.17 cm H x 70.49 cm W)
Inventory #MUT355
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Wangechi Mutu “This you call Civilization?,” 2008 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“This you call Civilization?,” 2008
Mixed media, ink, collage, contact paper on Mylar
98" x 52" artwork size
Inventory #MUT266
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Bill Orcutt

Wangechi Mutu “Untitled,” 2002 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Untitled,” 2002
Watercolor, pencil, collage on paper
15.25" H x 18.25" W (38.74 cm H x 46.36 cm W) paper size, 21.25" H x 24.50" W x 1.50" D (53.98 cm H x 62.23 cm W x 3.81 cm D) framed
Inventory #MUT105
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Wangechi Mutu “Bird Flew,” 2008 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Bird Flew,” 2008
Mixed media, ink, collage on mylar
42" x 62" (106 7/10 x 157 1/2cm) paper size; 45" x 67" frame size
Inventory #MUT265
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo Credit: Bill Orcutt

Wangechi Mutu “Blue Eyes,” 2008 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Blue Eyes,” 2008
Mixed media, ink, collage on mylar
42" x 62" (106 7/10 x 157 1/2cm) artwork size; 45 1/4" x 73 1/4" frame size
Inventory #MUT264
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo Credit: Bill Orcutt

Wangechi Mutu “You pretty, no you pretty,” 2008 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“You pretty, no you pretty,” 2008
Watercolor, ink, and collage on paper
2 parts, 14 1/4" x 11" each, overall dimensions 14 1/4" x 23 1/2"
Inventory #MUT242
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

Wangechi Mutu “A bend in her river,” 2008 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“A bend in her river,” 2008
Watercolor, ink, and collage on paper
overall dimensions: 51" x 42" (six parts)
Inventory #MUT254
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Wangechi Mutu “Chorus line,” 2008 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Chorus line,” 2008
Watercolor, ink, and collage on paper
overall dimensions 31" x 52" (eight parts)
Inventory #MUT235
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Wangechi Mutu “The evolution of mud mama from beginning to start,” 2008 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“The evolution of mud mama from beginning to start,” 2008
Watercolor, ink, and collage on paper
overall dimensions: 19 1/2" x 75" (six parts)
Inventory #MUT252
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

Wangechi Mutu “Lizard Love,” 2006 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Lizard Love,” 2006
Mixed media ink, spray paint, collage on mylar
25" H x 21.5" W (63.5 cm H x 54.61 cm W)
Inventory #MUT316
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Bill Orcutt

Wangechi Mutu “The Naughty Fruits of My Evil Labor,” 2005 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“The Naughty Fruits of My Evil Labor,” 2005
Ink, acrylic, collage, contact paper, packing tape on mylar
80 ¹⁄₄" x 42" [HxW] (203.84 x 106.68 cm); 87 ¹⁄₄" x 48 ⁷⁄₈" x 3" [HxWxD] (221.61 x 126.68 x 7.62 cm) Framed
Inventory #MUT187
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Jeff McLane

Wangechi Mutu “I Put a Spell on You,” 2005 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“I Put a Spell on You,” 2005
Ink, acrylic, collage, contact paper, packing tape on mylar
81" x 52" [HxW] (205.74 x 132.08 cm)
Inventory #MUT185
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Josh White

Wangechi Mutu “Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies,” 2005 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies,” 2005
Ink, acrylic, collage, contact paper on mylar
81" x 52" [HxW] (205.74 x 132.08 cm)
Inventory #MUT193
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles

Wangechi Mutu “Royal Blue Arachnid Curse,” 2005 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Royal Blue Arachnid Curse,” 2005
Ink, collage, contact paper on mylar
77 ¹⁄₂" x 51 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (196.85 x 130.81 cm)
Inventory #MUT189
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Josh White

Wangechi Mutu “She's Egungun Again,” 2005 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“She's Egungun Again,” 2005
Ink, acrylic, collage, contact paper on mylar
87" x 52 1/2"
Inventory #MUT194
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Joshua White

Wangechi Mutu “Untitled,” 2004 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Untitled,” 2004
Ink, acrylic, collage on mylar
37" x 25 1/2"
Inventory #MUT180
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo Credit: Gene Ogami

Wangechi Mutu “Untitled (classic profiles series),” 2003 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Untitled (classic profiles series),” 2003
Collage and watercolor on mylar
22" x 17"
Inventory #MUT133
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
on the front

Wangechi Mutu “All Rosey,” 2003 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“All Rosey,” 2003
Ink, acrylic, sequins, glitter and printed paper collage on mylar
45" x 33" [HxW] (114.3 x 83.82 cm)
Inventory #MUT507
Courtesy of the artist

Wangechi Mutu “the witch-hunt,” 2003 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“the witch-hunt,” 2003
Collage and watercolor on mylar
27.50" H x 17" W (69.85 cm H x 43.18 cm W) paper size, 37.25" H x 26.75" W x 1.50" D (94.62 cm H x 67.95 cm W x 3.81 cm D) framed
Inventory #MUT132
Courtesy of Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
signed, dated lower right

Wangechi Mutu “I have peg leg nightmares,” 2003 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“I have peg leg nightmares,” 2003
Collage and watercolor on mylar
53" H x 40" W x 1.25" D (134.62 cm H x 101.6 cm W x 3.18 cm D) framed
Inventory #MUT136
Courtesy of Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
Signature on bottom right

Wangechi Mutu “Intertwined,” 2002 — **Wangechi Mutu**
“Intertwined,” 2002
Collage and watercolor on paper
16 x 12" [HxW] (40.64 x 30.48 cm) paper size; 24.75 x 21.75 x 0.75" [HxWxD] (62.86 x 55.24 x 1.9 cm) framed
Inventory #MUT121
Courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles
Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer

This image illustrates a link to the exhibition titled Edgar Arceneaux<br>Wangechi Mutu<br>Paul Mpagi Sepuya in<br><i>Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics</i>

Edgar Arceneaux
Wangechi Mutu
Paul Mpagi Sepuya in
Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics

December 15, 2024 — August 3, 2025

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

This image illustrates a link to the exhibition titled Wangechi Mutu<br>Deborah Roberts in<br><i>The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure</i>

Wangechi Mutu
Deborah Roberts in
The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure

November 9, 2024 — February 9, 2025

Philadelphia Museum of Art

This image illustrates a link to the exhibition titled Nicole Eisenman<br>Wangechi Mutu in<br><i>Scientia Sexualis</i>

Nicole Eisenman
Wangechi Mutu in
Scientia Sexualis

October 5, 2024 — March 2, 2025

Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA)

This image illustrates a link to the exhibition titled Wangechi Mutu in<br><i>The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure</i>

Wangechi Mutu in
The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure

June 29 — September 29, 2024

The Box, Plymouth

This image illustrates a link to the exhibition titled April Bey<br>Wangechi Mutu in<br><i>Wangechi Mutu & April Bey Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940</i>

April Bey
Wangechi Mutu in
Wangechi Mutu & April Bey Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940

March 10 — July 28, 2024

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Wangechi Mutu in
The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure

February 22 — May 19, 2024

National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

This image illustrates a link to the exhibition titled Genevieve Gaignard<br>Wangechi Mutu<br> Deborah Roberts in<br><i>Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage</i>

Genevieve Gaignard
Wangechi Mutu
Deborah Roberts in
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage

February 18 — May 12, 2024

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

This image illustrates a link to the exhibition titled Wangechi Mutu<br><i>Intertwined</i>

Wangechi Mutu
Intertwined

January 31 — April 14, 2024

The New Orleans Museum of Art

This image illustrates a link to the exhibition titled Wangechi Mutu <br><i>My Cave Call</i>

Wangechi Mutu
My Cave Call

January 12 — March 31, 2024

St Louis Art Museum

Genevieve Gaignard
Wangechi Mutu
Deborah Roberts in
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage

September 15 — December 31, 2023

Frist Art Museum

Wangechi Mutu
Intertwined

March 2 — June 4, 2023

The New Museum

This image illustrates a link to the exhibition titled It’s Time: Kwame Brathwaite, Kwesi Botchway, Genevieve Gaignard, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Paul Mpagi Sepuya

It’s Time: Kwame Brathwaite, Kwesi Botchway, Genevieve Gaignard, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Paul Mpagi Sepuya

January 14 — February 25, 2023

Vielmetter Los Angeles, Gallery III

Wangechi Mutu

May 21 — November 7, 2022

Storm King Art Center

This image illustrates a link to the exhibition titled Laura Aguilar <br>Dave McKenzie<br>Rodney McMillian<br>Wangechi Mutu<br><i>Prospect.5 New Orleans: Yesterday you said tomorrow</i>

Laura Aguilar
Dave McKenzie
Rodney McMillian
Wangechi Mutu
Prospect.5 New Orleans: Yesterday you said tomorrow

October 23, 2021 — January 23, 2022

The Hancock Whitney Welcome Center, New Orleans, LA

Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?

May 7 — November 7, 2021

Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco

20 Years Anniversary Exhibition

July 18 — August 29, 2020

Vielmetter Los Angeles, Gallery I

The Facade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us

September 9, 2019 — January 12, 2020

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Sculpture

June 1 — August 3, 2019

Vielmetter Los Angeles, Gallery III

This image illustrates a link to the exhibition titled Wangechi Mutu in <br><i>Whitney Biennial 2019</i>

Wangechi Mutu in
Whitney Biennial 2019

May 17 — September 22, 2019

Whitney Museum of American Art

Inaugural Exhibition

February 16 — March 23, 2019

Vielmetter Los Angeles

Wangechi Mutu

September 23, 2017 — January 14, 2018

The Contemporary Austin

Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey

October 11, 2013 — March 9, 2014

Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY

Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey

March 21 — July 21, 2013

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC

This image illustrates a link to the exhibition titled Wangechi Mutu: <s>Nitarudi</s> Ninarudi <s>I plan to return</s> I am returning.

Wangechi Mutu: ~~Nitarudi~~ Ninarudi ~~I plan to return~~ I am returning.

November 3 — December 22, 2012

Vielmetter Los Angeles

Summer Group Show

August 7 — 30, 2010

Vielmetter Los Angeles

Wangechi Mutu: My Dirty Little Heaven

June 25 — September 12, 2010

WIELS, Brussels

Wangechi Mutu: My Dirty Little Heaven

April 30 — June 13, 2010

Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin

Wangechi Mutu: This You Call Civilization?

February 24 — May 23, 2010

AGO - Art Gallery of Ontario

Inaugural Group Exhibition

January 23 — March 6, 2010

Vielmetter Los Angeles

Wangechi Mutu: In Whose Image

November 12 — December 7, 2008

Kunstverein Wien

Wangechi Mutu: Little Touched

March 15 — May 3, 2008

Vielmetter Los Angeles

This image illustrates a link to the exhibition titled Cut

Cut

October 15 — December 3, 2005

Vielmetter Los Angeles

Wangechi Mutu: Amazing Grace

July 21 — October 9, 2005

Miami Art Museum

Wangechi Mutu: problematica

February 12 — March 26, 2005

Vielmetter Los Angeles

This image illustrates a link to the exhibition titled New

New

January 10 — February 14, 2004

Vielmetter Los Angeles

Wangechi Mutu: Pagan Poetry

October 15 — November 18, 2003

Vielmetter Los Angeles

1972: Born in Nairobi, Kenya
: Lives and works in New York and Nairobi

2000: MFA Sculpture, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1996: BFA, Cooper Union for the Advancement of the Arts and Science, NY
1991: IB, United World College of the Atlantic, Wales, UK

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2025: "Wangechi Mutu: Black Soil Poems," Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
2023-2024: "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined," New Museum, New York, NY; Traveling to New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (2024)
2024: "Wangechi Mutu: My Cave Call," St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, MI
2022: "Wangechi Mutu," Storm King, New Windsor, NY
: "Mama Ray," Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
2021: "Wangechi Mutu," Gladstone Gallery, New York City, NY
: "Wangechi Mutu: I am Speaking, Are you Listening?," Legion of Honor, San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA
2019-2020: "The Facade Commission: Wangechi Mutu The New Ones, will free Us," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2018: "Wangechi Mutu: A Promise to Communicate," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (Link)
2017: “Journeys into Peripheral Worlds” Des Moines Arts Center, Des Moines, IA
: "Ndoro Na Mit," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
: Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
: Austin Contemporary, Austin, TX
2016: “The End of Carrying All,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (Link)
2015: “Wangechi Mutu,” Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
2014: "Nguva na Nyoka," Victoria Miro, London, UK
2013: "Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey," Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY; traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; and Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney, Australia
: Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
2012: Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "This Undreamt Descent," Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
: "Blackthrones," Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
: Muse d'art contemporain de Montral, Montreal, Canada
2011: Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
2010: Hunt Bury Flee, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
: Wangechi Mutu: My Dirty Little Heaven, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany, traveling to:Wiels Museum, Brussels, Belgium
: Wangechi Mutu: This You Call Civilization?, Art Gallery of Ontario / Muse des beaux-arts de lOntario, Canada
2009: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2008: Wangechi Mutu: In Whose Image?, Kunsthalle Wien Project Space Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria, curated by Angela Stief
: Little Touched, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: Yo.n.l, Victoia Miro Gallery, London, UK
2007: Cleaning Earth, Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis, MN
: The Cinderella Curse, ACA Gallery, Woodruff Arts Center, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
2006: Sleeping Heads Lie, Power House, Memphis, TN
: An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
: Exhuming Gluttony: a Lovers Requiem, Salon 94, New York, NY
2005: The Chiefs Lairs A Holy Mess, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, curated by Tara McDowell
: Wangechi Mutu - Amazing Grace, Miami Art Museum, curated by Peter Boswell, Miami, FL
: problematica, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
2004: Hangin in Texas, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX
2003: Pagan Poetry, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2002: Creatures, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Queens, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025: "New Humans, Memories of the Future," The New Museum, New York, NY (forthcoming)
: "Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds," MoCA, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
: "Daphne's Wardrobe," Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, CA
2024-2025: "Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Travling to MACBA, Barcelona, Spain; KANAL, Pompidou, Brussels; The Barbican Centre, London, UK
: "The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure," The Box, Plymouth, UK; Traveling to: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (2025)
: "Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics," LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
: "Scientia Sexualis," ICA Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2024: "Chance Encounters: Surrealism Then and Now," Bechtler Museum of Modern Art at Levine Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC
: "In an effort to be held," Library Street Collective, Los Angeles, CA
: "A Long Affair: Surrealism 1924 to Now," Hyde Collection, Glenn Falls, NY
: "Houseguest: Mute Flesh," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Infinite Woman," Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles, Île de Porquerolles, France
: "Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood," organized by Hayward Gallery, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK; Traveling to MAC, Birmingham: June - October 2024; Millenium Gallery, Sheffield: October 2024 - January 2025
: "Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940," The Modern Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
: "The Time is Always Now," Curated by Ekow Eshun, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
: "From Her Perspective: Intersections of Gender and Race," Mott-Warsh Collection, Flint, MI
: "Wangechi Mutu: My Cave Call," St Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
2023-2024: "Diario notturno. Di sogni, incubi e bestiari immaginari," MAXXI L'AQUILA, L'Aquila AQ, Italy
: "New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: "Africa Supernova: The collection of Carla & Pieter Schulting," Kunsthal KaDE in Amersfoort, The Netherlands
: "Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage ," Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN; Traveling to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (2024); The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. (2024)
2023: “Women on the Verge,” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
: "Maternity Leave," Green Family Foundation, Dallas, TX
: "Sharjah Biennial: Thinking Historically in the Present,” Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
: "It's Time," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Boil, Toil & Trouble," Curated by Zoe Lukov, West Palm Beach, FL
: "THE SELF, THE WORK, THE WORLD," Fabian Lang, Zurich, Switzerland
: "Rock My Soul," curated by Isaac Julien, Eva Livijn, Stockholm, Sweden
: "A Gateway to Possible Worlds. Art and Science Fiction," Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France (Traveling Exhibition) (Link)
: "The Story of Art as it’s Still Being Written," curated by Katy Hessel, Victoria Miro, London, UK
: "Homecoming," The University of Iowa, Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
: "In the Black Fantastic," (Traveling Exhibition) Hayward Gallery, London, UK
: "Dream On," NEON at Hellenic Parliament, Athens, Greece
: "Feminine Power: The Divine to the Demonic," (Traveling Exhibition) The British Museum, London, UK
: "In Dialogue:3," The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
: "Lux et Veritas," NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL
: "What is left unspoken: love," High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
: "Rituals of Resilience," Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
: "Positive Fragmentation," The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
: "WOMEN AND CHANGE," Museum of Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Denmark
: "Image Gardeners," McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2021-2022: "Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow," The Hancock Whitney Welcome Center, New Orleans, LA
: "New Arrivals From Salvador Dalí to Jenny Saville," Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
2021: "Visions of Dante," Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
: "On The Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
: "Born in Flames: Feminist Future," Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
: "Plural Possilbities & the Female Body," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2020: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019: “Rock My Soul,” curated by Isaac Julien, Victoria Miro, London, UK
2019-2020: “Driving Forces: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti,” Columbus Museum of Art and Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
: “Riffs and Relations,” The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
2020: “Abortion is Normal,” curated by Marilyn Minter, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY
: "A Beautiful Struggle: Black Feminist Futurism," Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
: “Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistis Narratives,” McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, MA
: “Bodyscapes,” The Israel Museum, Israel, Jerusalem
: “Neurones, Intelligences simulées: Mutations-Créations,” The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
: “Contemporary Female Identities in the Global South”, Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation, Johannesburg, South Africa
: "Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives," McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Massachusetts
2019-2020: “Art For All: from the collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation,” The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University, Portland, OR
2019-2022: "Waking Dream," Ruby City, San Antonio, TX
2019-2020: "Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum." Harlem Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Traveling to Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
: “Serious Sparkle,” Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
: "Are We There Yet? Arts of the Black Atlantic," Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin OH,
2019: "Isaac Julien: ‘Rock My Soul,'" Victoria Miro, London, UK
: "I Am . . . Contemporary Women Artists of Africa," National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.
: "IncarNations: African Art As Philosophy," Bozar Centre for Fine Art, Brussels, Belgium
: "The Academic Body American Academy in Rome," Italy
: Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: "30 Americans," Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
: "Social Space," The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
: "Word on the Street," Artpace, San Antonio, TX
: "Uptown to Harlem: African American Works from the collection of Martin & Rebecca Eisenberg,” Riverview School, East Sandwich, MA
: “Suffering from Realness,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (Link)
2018-2019: "Chaos and Awe," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
: "People Get Ready: Building a Contemporary Collection," Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC
2018: "Tintoretto 500: The Madness of Painting," Ca' d'Oro, Venice, Italy,
2018-2019: "Making Africa. A continent of Contemporary Design," Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2018: "Witness: Race and Identity in Contemporary American Printmaking," Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR
: "Beyond Borders: Global Africa," University of Michigan Museum of Art, Anne Arbor, MI.
: “Seed,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2018-2019: “The World on Paper,” Palais Populaire, Deutsche Bank, Berlin, Germany
2018: “Blind Faith: Between the visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art,” Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
: "Chaos and Awe,” Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
2017: “Contemporary Women Printmakers”, Museum of Art WSU, Pullman, WA
: “Simple Passion, Complex Vision: The Darryl Atwell Collection”, The Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts and Culture, Charlotte, NC
: "Afro-Tech and the Future of Re-Invention", HMKV at the Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany
: Canadian Biennial 2017, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
: “I Am You, You Are Here, We Are Everywhere,” Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
: “Lucy’s Iris,” Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain
: Performa 17, New York, NY
: “Colonial Stories: Power and People Exhibition,” GI Holtegaard, Holte Denmark
: “Liquid Possibilities,” Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
: “Liquid Possibilities,” Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
: “Outcasts: Women in the Wilderness,” Wave Hills Arts Center, Bronx, NY
: “Wanderlust,” UB Art Galleries, Buffalo, NY
2016: “Blackness in Abstraction,” Pace Gallery, New York, NY
: “Making and Unmaking,” Camden Arts Center, curated by Duro Olowu, London, UK
: “Black Pulp!,” International Print Center New York, New York, NY
: “Protest,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
: Sindika Dokolo Collection, curated by Kendell Geers, Luanda, Angola
: “Africans in America,” Goodman Gallery, curated by Hank Willis Thomas, Johannesburg, South Africa
2015: “Spatial Stories: Topographies of Change in Africa,” Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, CO
: "All the Worlds Futures," 56th International Art Exhibition, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (Link)
: Hello Walls, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
: Portraits and Other Liknesses from SFMoMA, Musuem of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
: Making Africa A Continent of Contemporary Design, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
: Open this End: Contemporary Art From the Collection of Blake Byrne, traveling to: The Nasher Museum, Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Ohio; The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY; the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art at Lewis & Clark College, Vancouver, WA
: Picasso.mania, Grand Palais, Paris, France
: "Artists in Dialogue 3: Wangechi Mutu and Nora Chipaumire," National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
: "Conflict: Contemporary Responses to War," University of Queensland Art Museum, St. Lucia, Australia
: Hidden and Revealed, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Grace Jones Project," Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
: Africa: Architecture, Culture, and Identity, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
2014: "Death is Your Body", Steineres Haus Am Rmberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
: "Divine Comedy," MMK Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; traveling to SCAD, Savannah, Georgia; and Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.
: "Conflict: Contemporary responses to war," UQ Art Museum, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
: "Interrupting Entropy: Selections from the Betlach Collection," University Library, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
: "Bash: An Exhibition in Two Parts," curated by Daniel Mason, MaxArt, Woodstock, NY
: "Herland," Deutsche Bank, New York, NY
: "We Live in Brooklyn Baby," Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
: "Made by Brazilians...Creative Invasion," Sao Paulo, Brazil
: Dak'art Bienniale, Dakar, Senegal
: "King's County," Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
: "Haute Africa Festival of Photography," Knokke-Heist, Belgium
: "Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
: "Holding it Together," Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: "Hidden and Revealed," Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Artists in Dialogue 3," National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
: "Bad Conscience," curated by John Miller, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
2013: 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
: "The Shadows Took Shape," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: "Step Right In," The Visual Arts Center (VAC) at the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
: "Broken Memories", Museu AfroBrasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
: "Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa," National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
: "Aquatopia," Nottingham Contemporary, UK; Tate St. Ives, UK
: Migrating Identities, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: Sakahn (to light a Fire), National Gallery of Canada, Ontario, Canada
: A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
: Seismic Shifts: 10 Visionaries in Contemporary Art and Architecture, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2012: The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
: African Contemporary Art, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
: Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Mumbai, India
: There is no archive in which nothing gets lost, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
: Intense Proximity, La Triennale at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
: Visions of Our 44th President, Wright Museum, Detroit, MI
: "Trade Routes Over Time", Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
: Follow The Line, The Girls Club, Fort Lauderdale, FL
: The Calendars Tale: Fantasy, Figuration and Representation, Boston University, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
: The Soul of a City: Memphis Collects African American Art, Brooks Art Museum, Memphis, TN
: Six Yards, Guaranteed Dutch Design, Museum of Modern Art, Armhem, Armhem, Netherlands
: Wangechi Mutu, KAWS, Jeff Sonhouse, Wim Delvoye, Gallery Zidoun, Luxembourg
: 28 Days, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA
: Twisted Sisters, Dodge Gallery, New York, NY
: Day for Night: Between Reality and Illusion, Richard Harris Terrace at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), Presented in collaboration with Art 21, New York, NY
2011: The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: Twisted Selves, University of California Riverside Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
: Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists, Bronx Museum, NY
2010: The Secret Lives of Trees, Monica De Cardenas Galleria, Milan, Italy
: Water, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
: Collection: MOCAs First Thirty Years (1980 Now), The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
: Until Now: Collecting the New (1960-2010), Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
: Disquieted: Contemporary voices from Out of the Shadows, Portland Art Museum, Oregon
: Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, traveling to: Centro Galego de Arte Contempornea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
: Dress Codes, The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
: Visceral Bodies, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC, Canada
2009: The Spectacle of The Everyday, 10th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France, curated by Hou Hanru, New York, NY
: Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women, and Art, Art Work for Change and the Tides Center, traveling to: The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway; University Art Gallery, San Diego, USA; Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico; Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico; Chicago Cultural Center, USA; David J. Sencer CDC Museum, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, USA; New Orleans Center for Creative Arts; Newcomb Gallery, Tulane University; and Prospect 2, New Orleans, USA; Redline, Denver, Colorado, USA; The Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Fundacion Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg , South Africa; Traveling to: The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada; Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, Puerto Rico, USA; New York City, NY, USA
: Rebelle. Art and Feminism 1969-2009, Museum Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Netherlands
: Black Womanhood, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
: Under the Knife, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
: Sortilge, Jean-Marc Soloman, Chteau d'Arenthon, France (catalogue)
: Paint Made Flesh, First Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN and traveling to: The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Memorial Art Garden, Rochester, NY
2008: Videostudio, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: Objects of Value, The Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
: Prospect.1 New Orleans, The New Orleans Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA
: U-Turn, Quadrennial for Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Transformation AGO, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
: 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL. Traveling to: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
: Body Memory, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
: Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX, curated by Terrie Sultan, David Pagel and Colin Gardner traveling to: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY (Catalogue)
: Black Woman Hood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
: Collage: The Unmonumental Picture, New Museum, New York, NY, curated by Richard Flood, Massimiliano Gioni, and Laura Hoptman
2007: Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, Ballroom, Marfa, TX, curated by Bob Nickas
: Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, DESTE Foundation, Athens, Greece, curated by Jeffrey Deitch
: Paper Baglady and Other Stories, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
: Star Power: Museum as Body Electric, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, curated by Cydney Payton, Denver, CO
: (re)Volver, Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Portugal, curated by Filipa Oliveira
: Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York
2006: Triumph of Painting, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
: USA Today, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
: Still Points in the Turning World: SITE Santa Fes 6th Biennial, SITE Santa Fe, NM, curated by Klaus Ottman
: Having New Eyes, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
: Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano, Italy, curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto
: If a cat gives birth to kittens in an oven, are they kittens or biscuits? Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY
: The F-Word: Female Vocals, Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
: Out of Time: a contemporary view, Museum of Modern Art, New York (curated by Joachim Pissarro)
: The 2nd Seville Biennale, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain, curated by Okwui Enwezor
2005: Linkages & Themes in the African Diaspora: Selections from the Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton Art Collections, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
: Matisse and Beyond The Painting and Sculpture Collections, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures, Peeler Art Center, DePauw University,Greencastle, IN, traveling to McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, OH;
: Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, VA
: Drawing from The Modern, 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Jordan Kantor
: Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
: CUT, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
: Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, curated by Kristine Bell
: The White Rose, Brent Sikkema, New York
: Greater New York 2005, PS1, Long Island City, NY
: Rewind, Re-cast, Review, Berrie Arts Center, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, curated by Isolde Brielmaier
: African Queen, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
: Follow Me: A Fantasy, Arena 1, Santa Monica, curated by Malik Gaines
: Only Skin Deep Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, curated by Brian Wallis and Coco Fusco (catalogue), traveling to San Diego Museum of Art, CA; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2004: Africa Remix, Kunstpalast Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, curated by Simon Njami, traveling to Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Hayward Gallery, London; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Tate Modern, London, curated by Emma Dexter
: Fight or Flight, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York
: Its About Memory, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Simon Watson
: I Feel Mysterious Today, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL, curated by Dominik Molon
: Figuratively: Dave McKenzie, Wangechi Mutu, William Villalongo, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
: Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC, curated by Ron Platt
: Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
2003: Only Skin Deep, International Center of Photography, New York, curated by Coco Fusco Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
: Black President: the Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, traveling to The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnatti, OH; The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Barbican Centre, London, UK, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker
: We Are Electric, Deitch Projects, New York, curated by Chris Perez
: Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora, Museum for African Art, Long Island City, NY, traveling to Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, curated by Laurie Ann Farrell
: Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
: Creatures, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
: Wangechi Mutu/Carl Scholz, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2002: Africaine, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, curated by Christine Kim
2001: Out of the Box, Queens Museum, New York
2000: The Magic City, Brent Sikemma, New York, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker
1997: Lifes Little Necessities, Johannesburg Biennale, The Castle, Cape Town, South Africa, curated by Kellie Jones
1996: One Voice, 7th Gallery, Cooper Union, New York

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: Haigney, Sophie. "Wangechi Mutu’s Works to Grace the Met Facade Until June," New York Times, November 11 (Link)
: Collins, Ann C. "Wangechi Mutu: The NewOnes, will free Us," The Brooklyn Rail, October (Link)
: Cascone, Sarah. "‘I Didn’t Want Her to Carry the Weight’: How Wangechi Mutu’s African-Inspired Caryatids on the Met’s Facade Break Free of Tradition," artnet, September 30 (Link)
: Trujillo, Maria. "Liberating art history: Wangechi Mutu takes over the Metropolitan’s empty niches," ArtCritique, October 1 (Link)
: Aldridge, Taylor Renee. "‘We Ourselves Are Our Prize’: Lasting Works in the Whitney Biennial Evoke Toni Morrison and Ancestry Through the Ages," ARTnews, September 19 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L. "2019 Whitney Biennial: The Museum as a Site of Protest," CultureType, September 22 (Link)
: Morris, Kadish. "In Pictures: Wangechi Mutu’s Empowering Sculptures of African Women at The Met," Frieze, September 13 (Link)
: Sayej, Nadja. "'The works represent a new era': behind the Met's bold new sculptures," Guardian, September 16 (Link)
: Small, Zachary. "Wangechi Mutu Adorns the Met Museum’s Façade With Images of African Queendom," Hyperallergic, September 9 (Link)
: Cotter, Holland. "At 19 Art Shows, From Los Angeles to Manhattan, All Eyes Are on Inclusion," New York Times, September 9 (Link)
: Chisholm, N. Jamiyla. "Wangechi Mutu's Sculptures Transform Iconic Steps at The Met," ColorLines, September 6 (Link)
: Belcove, Julie. "African-American Artists Will Deliver a Tidal Wave of Compelling Work This Fall," Robb Report, September 7 (Link)
: "Wangechi Mutu’s Female Figures Grace the Met’s Façade," New Yorker, September 9 (Link)
: MacSweeney, Eve. "How Kenyan-Born Artist Wangechi Mutu Is Taking Over the Met," W, August 27 (Link)
: Catlin, Roger. "Women’s Voices Ring With a Resounding Roar in this New Show," Smithsonian Magazine, July 17 (Link)
: Budick, Ariella. "Whitney Biennial: an anthology of young America," Financial Times, June 4 (Link)
: Loos, Ted. "Why These 4 Whitney Biennial Artists Are Making Waves," Galerie Magazine, May 10 (Link)
: Goodman, Jonathan. "Highlights from the 2019 Whitney Biennial," Art Fuse, May 30 (Link)
: Moffitt, Evan. "The 2019 Whitney Biennial Is Unafraid to Be Beautiful," Frieze, May 20 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L. "Artists Wangechi Mutu and Kara Walker Land Major Museum Commissions," Culture Type, April 14 (Link)
: Freeman, Nate. "Wangechi Mutu will make works for the Metropolitan Museum’s façade for one in a trio of contemporary commissions,"Artsy, March 22 (Link)
: Libbey, Peter. "The Met Will Use its Facade and Great Hall to Showcase Contemporary Art," New York Times, March 21 (Link)
: Pellerin, Amanda. "Wangechi Mutu-Keep Moving, Keep Making Art," TL Magazine, January 12 (Link)
2018: Halperin, Julia and Charlotte Burns"Yes, Basquiat Is an Art-Market Superstar. But the Work of Other African American Artists Remains Vastly Undervalued," Artnet News, September 20 (Link)
: "'Road to Justice' at MAXXI," Blouin Art Info (web), July 31 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L., "Baltimore Museum of Art Swaps Works by Warhol, Kline, Noland, and Rauschenberg for Acquisitions by Whitten, Sherald, Mutu, and Yiadom-Boakye," Culture Type (web), June 28 (Link)
: Spivack, Emily, “Why this artist is inspired by a chest of drawers,” The New York Times Style Magazine (web), June 20 (Link)
: Brownell Mitic, Ginanne, "In Nairobi, An Art Scene in Transition,” The New York Times, June 12 (Link)
: Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen, “’Multiply, Identify, Her’ International Center of Photography Museum (ICP),” ArtForum (web), June 2 (Link)
: “‘Inside my Studio’ with Wangechi Mutu,” Cultured Mag (web), June 1 (Link)
: Mertha, Amelia, "Postcolonial assemblages," Honi Soit (web) May 23 (Link)
: Yuelys, Joanna, "ICA Exhibition Highlights Social Division, Installation as Catalyst," The Heights (web), February 11 (Link)
: Wa Gacheru, Margaretta, "Wangechi Mutu, Artist Who's Feted Abroad but Unknown in Kenya," Business Daily (web), January 25 (Link)
2017: Uszerowicz, Monica, “Performa 17 is Inspired by the Anarchic, Restlessly Inventive Spirit of Dada,” Hyperallergic (web), October 19 (Link)
: Travers, Andrew, “Anderson Ranch National Artist Award honoree Wangechi Mutu discusses her work,” The Aspen Times (web), July 19 (Link)
: McKenzie, Abby, “Wangechi Mutu,” Art Asia Pacific (web), June
: Fateman, Johanna, “Wangechi Mutu,” Artforum, April (Link)
: Gordon, Sean, “Wangechi Mutu Explores Afrofuturism and The New Humanism with Ndoro Na Miti,” Paste (web), February 12 (Link)
: D’Souza, Aruna, “Wangechi Mutu,” 4Columns (web), February 24 (Link)
: Scobie, Ilka, “Wangechi Mutu at Gladstone Gallery,” The Brooklyn Rail (web), March 1 (Link)
: Smith, Roberta, “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week: Wangechi Mutu,” The New York Times, March 10 (Link)
2016: Bourland, Ian, "500 Words," Artforum, July 12 (Link)
: Cervenak, Sarah Jane, “Like Blood or Blossom: Wangechi Mutu’s Resistant Harvests,” Feminist Studioes 42, no. 2
: Sargent, Antwaun, “A Century of Pulp Fiction Offers a Window into Balck Identity,” The Creators Project (web), October 28
2015: Valentine, Victoria L., 2015 Venice Biennale to Include More than 25 Black Artists, Culture Type, March 5
: McGroarty, Patrick, Africans Turn to Local Art: Five Artists to Watch, The Wall Street Journal, March 13
: Muoz-Alonso, Lorena, 12 Must-Read Tips for a Successful Career in the Art World, Artnet News, April 6
: Said-Moorhouse, Lauren, Why Africa is the buzz at this years Venice Biennale, CNN.com, May 13
: Valentine, Victoria L., Commencement 2015: African American Artists Bestow Wisdom on Graduates, Culture Type, May 27
: Valentine, Victoria L., ARTnews Publishes Special Report on Women in the Art World, Black Artists Respond, Culture Type, May 31
: Stupart, Linda, Its not all a pretty picture at the Venice Biennale, channel24, May 24
: Sangweni, Yolanda, Campaign, with a Little Help from Solange, Essence, June 5
: Mutu, Wangechi, Wangechi Mutu Responds, ArtNews, June
: Scher, Rob, This New Arts Endeavor Hopes to Change the Way We Engage With Africa, Bedford + Bowery, June 5
: Forgenie, Cacy, RECAP: Wangechi Mutus Africas Out! Benefit, Flavorpill, June 8
: Mutu, Wangechi, Five Artists, Five Book Reviews, The New York Times, June 25
: Indrisek, Scott, 5 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York: Tom of Finland, Hello Walls, and More, ArtInfo (web), July 9
: Sargent, Antwaun, Africas Out! Lets Celebrate, W Magazine, June 8
2014: Scheffler, Daniel, Brooklyn Inspires African Artists, The New York Times, October 14
: Tschida, Anne, "Fantastic Journey: Wangechi Mutu at Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami," The Miami Herald, May 23 (Link)
: Ballard, Thea, Deep Explorer: Wangechi Mutu Dives into Aquatic Mythology, Modern Painters, October
: Frank, Priscilla, 40 Contemporary African Artists Take on Danes Divine Comedy, The Huffington Post, October 20
: Young, Allison, Critics Pick: Wangechi Mutu, ArtForum, November 20
: Waxman, Lori, Seductive hells, Chicago Tribune, November 26
: Wallace, Arminta, In A Dance Class, You Are Often Made To Feel You Must Apologise For Your Body, Irish Times, August 12
: Instagrams Of The Art World: Wangechi Mutu And Flotus, Lena Dunhams Toilet, And More, Blouin Artinfo,Blogs.Artinfo.Com, August 8
: Mongezeleli Joja, Athi, The female form through Wangechi Mutus lens, Mail & Guardian, November 14
: Lebel, Estelle, Femmes Extrmes, Recherches Fministes, Vol. 27 No. 1
: Spettel, Elizabeth, Les Artistes Femmes: Des Esthtiques De La Limite Dpasse?,Feminist Research,July 2014
: Vitiello, Chris, Acklands More Love, Nashers Mutu Receive National Honors, Indyweek.Com, June 25
: Gaskins, Nettrice, Black Futurism: The Creative Destruction And Reconstruction Of Race In Contemporary Art,Blog.Art21.Org, June 24
: Tschida, Anne, An Intense Fantastic Journey , Miami Herald, May 25
: Thornton, Sarah, 33 Artists In 3 Acts Norton Books, Pp. 58-63, November
: Tschida, Anne, Fantastic Journey, The Miami Herald, May 23
: Willis, Deborah, Wangechi Mutu By Deborah Willis: Exploration Of The Female Body And Identity, Afrikadaa Magazine,Www.Africadaa.Com, May
: Conway, Megan, Performas 10th Anniversary Gala Honors the Art Worlds Renaissance Women, The Wall Street Journal, October 29
: Papenburg, Bettina, Grotesque Sensations: Carnivalising The Sensorium In The Art Of Wangechi Mutu,Www.Acadamia.Edu,May
: Barsamian, Edward, Vogue, Diane Von Furstenberg, Liya Kebede, John Mergrue, Wangechi Mutu, And Claire Danes Host A Born Free Africa Carnival, Vogue Magazine, Www.Vogue.Com, May 12
: Suarez De Jesus, Carlos, Art Mirrors Life In Wangechi Mutus Moca Show, Miami New Times, Www.Miaminewtimes.Com, May 1
: Bhoomki Believer: Wangechi Mutu, Www.Bhoomki.Com, May 6
: Neilson, Laura, Why Feminism Still Matters According to a Badass Artist, Refinery29, November 19
: Landers, Elizabeth, Designers Unite To End Hiv Transmission Www.Cnn.Com April 23
: Kim, Eun Kyung, Top Fashion Moms Design Collection To Fight Infant Aids Www.Today.Com, April 23
: Van Meter, Jonathan, The Fashion Industryteams Up With Born Free In The Fight Against Aids Www.Vogue.Com,April 23, 2014
: Cascone, Sarah, Wangechi Mutu-Designed Clothing Line For Victoria Beckham Helps Fight African Aids Crisis News.Artnet.Com, April 23
: Conmiff, Kelly, The Surreal Thing Time Magazine, April 14
: Toure, Katia, The Afro-Futurism: Retro Hip Trend Or Engaged Art? Www.Lesinrocks.Com, March 23
: The Fantastic, Feminine, And Futuristic Work Of Wangechi Mutu Www.Artobserver.Com, March 20
: Baum, Kell, Acquiring Modern Art Princeton Alumni Weekly, March 19
: Sumba, O., Wangechi Mutu Comes To Frankfurt Www.Oksh-Ev.De March 19
: Bourdin, Lara, The End Of Eating Everything Www.Zammagazine.Com, March 17
: Willis, Deborah, Wangechi Mutu Bomb Magazine, Bombmagazine.Org, February 28
: Cooper, Ashton, Boatright, Kristen, Video: Mickalene Thomas On Wangechi Mutu And Her Fantastic Journey Article: Www.Blouinartinfo.Com, Video: Www.Bcove.Me/K15l61w2, February 27
: Ehsan, Pari, Whimsical & A Ball, Www.Paridust.Com, February 28
: Naves, Mario, Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey At The Brooklyn Museum Mnaves.Wordpress.Com, January 31 Stone, Paul Wangechi Mutu; I See The World As Being Somewhat Female. Www.Myfirstshoot.Com, January 12
: Caruth, Nicole J., Wangechi Mutu On Failure Art 21 Magazine, Blog.Art21.Org, January 10
: Hower, Wendy, A Wangechi Tree Grows In Brooklyn Www.Nasher.Duke.Edu Nasher Museum, January
: Bodin, Claudia, Abscheulich schne Krper, Art Magazin, January
: Willis, Deborah, Excerpt from BOMBs Oral History Project: Wangechi Mutu, BOMB, Winter
2013: Open Now! Go See: Wangechi Mutus Wild World @ the Brooklyn Museum, Dog Star, December 29
: Bhatia, Pooja, African Beauty, Now, OZY, December 12
: Kelley, Kevin J., Mutus art pieces deck the walls of Brooklyn Museum, Daily Nation, December 8
: Nsehe, Mfonobong, The 20 Young Power Women In Africa 2013, Forbes, December 4
: Wolff, Rachel, The New Collage, ARTnews, December
: Budick, Ariella, Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey, Brooklyn Museum, New York review, Financial Times, November 26
: Byrne, Brendan C., Cyborg Humanism: Wangechi Mutu at Brooklyn Museum, Rhizome.org, November 15
: Agustsson, Sola, Wangechi Mutus Fantastic Journey at The Brooklyn Museum, Whitewall, November 13
: Kaitano, Chiwoniso, The Afrofuturism of Wangechi Mutu, The Guardian, November 13
: Rosenberg, Karen, The Future Is African, The New York Times, November 8
: Mutu, Wangechi, The Women, Art in America, November
: The Lookout: Wangechi Mutu at the Brooklyn Museum, Art in America online, October 31
: Plagens, Peter, Passion and Talent in Large Doses: Exhibitions of Wangechi Mutu, Thomas Eggerer, and Karl Wirsum, The Wall Street Journal, October 26
: The Reckoning : Women Artist Of The New Millenium Prestel Publishing, Pp.55-58
: The Age Of Collage: Contemporary Collage In Modern Art, Gestalten Publishing Pp. 15-17
: Barsh, Joanna, Wangechi Lives Into Her Strengths Centered Leadership, Pp.55-59 Centered Leadership
: Russell, Heather, "Interview with Artist Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey," artnet, October 18 (Link)
: Hansen-Bundy, Benjy, "A Fantastic Journey Into the Mind of Collage Artist Wangechi Mutu," Mother Jones, October 12 (Link)
: Moon, Grace, "Wangechi Mutu's Fantastical Journey, Dripped, Dipped and Left to Bled," Velvet Park, October 16 (Link)
: Cotter, Holland, "A Window, Not a Mirror: A Survey of Wangechi Mutu at Brooklyn Museum," The New York Times, October 11 (Link)
: Cooper, Ashton, "Wangechi Mutu's First New York Survey Opens at the Brooklyn Museum," ArtInfo, October 11 (Link)
: Giancana, Norell, "Wangechi Mutu's Fantastic Journey Opens at the Brooklyn Museum," BET online, October 11 (Link)
: Karefa-Johnson, Gabriella, "Wangechi Mutu's 'Fantastic Journey' Opens at the Brooklyn Museum," Vogue.com, October 11 (Link)
: Pearson, Erica, "Celebrated around the world, Kenyan-born Brooklyn resident Wangechi Mutu gets Brooklyn Museum retrospective," New York Daily News, October 6 (Link)
: Wolff, Rachel, Shell Probably Cut Up This Magazine Too, New York Magazine, August 25 (Link)
: Meier, Allison, The Grotesque Beauty of Wangechi Mutu, Hyperallergic, August 5 (Link)
: Lee, Denise, " 'Migrating Identities' showcases multicultural artists, examines cultural rifts," The Daily Californian, July 11
: Papenburg Ph.D, Bettina, "Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics," IB Taurus, London, UK
: Forrest, Nicholas, "Wangechi Mutu's Diverse Work at Sydney's MCA," ArtInfo, July 8
: Bierach, Barbara, Schock und Schnheit, Kunstmarkt, July 5, 6, 7
: Wolf, Rachel, 50 Under 50: The Next Most Collectable Artists, Art + Auction, June
: Greenberg, Blue, Mutus Woman both Gorgeous and Monstrous, The Herald Sun, April 5
: Menconi, David, Wangechi Mutu takes Nasher on A Fantastic Journey, newsobserver.com, March 23
: Anderson-Barranger, Hannah, Artist Mutu Premieres Show at Nasher, The Duke Chronicle, March 21
: Vitiello, Chris, Horror, Beauty, and Transcendence, (print title), In Her First Major U.S. Exhibition, Wangechi Mutu Thinks Big, (on-line title), Indy Week, March 20
: Bellamy, Cliff, Nasher to open touring exhibit of multi-media artist Wangechi Mutu, The Herald Sun, March 18
: Buck, Louisa, Feature Artist Interview: Mutable Montage, The Art Newspaper, Number 244, March
: Haskell, Angela, Artist Mutu's work opens at Drexel, The Philadelphia Tribune, February 27
: Gandy, Mira, A Conversation with Kenyan Artist Wangechi Mutu on Art, Power and Returning Home, New York Beacon, February 21-27
: Schad, Ed, Wangechi Mutu at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Art Review, January/February
: Arceneaux, Edgar, Wangechi Mutu and Her Post Human Kenyan Mutants, KCET Artbound, January 9
: Lax, Thomas J, Preview: Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey at the Nasher Museum of Art, Artforum, January
: Bodies Bright and Greater: Mixed Media Collages by Wangechi Mutu, Harpers Magazine, January
2012: Mohseni, Yasmine, 5 L.A. Gallery Shows You Should Go See Right Now, ArtInfo, December 20
: From struggling student to international art guru, The Daily Nation Kenya, December 8
: Pagel, David, "Past, present collide in Wangechi Mutu's 'Nitarudi Ninarudi'", The Los Angeles Times, November 29 (Link)
: Yablonsky, Linda, "Women In Art 2012: Wangechi Mutu", Elle Magazine, December
: Richardson, Jared, "Attack of the Boogeywoman: Visualizing Black Women's Grotesquerie in Afrofuturism", Art Papers, November/December
: Fiduccia, Joanna, Heavy Painting, Spike Quarterly, Issue 33, Autumn
: Bynoe, Holly, "Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Glassell School of Art presents There is no archive in which nothing gets lost", ARC Magazine, September 1
: The Subjective Object, GRASSI Museum fr Vlkerkunde zu Leipzig, K. Verlag Press, August
: This Undreamt Descent: Wangechi Mutu in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Deutsche Bank, July 13
: Bidouzo-Coudray, Joyce, Wangechi Mutu The Catatonic Bliss of Violent Incidences, Another Africa, June 12
: Rankin, Kelly. 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month, The University of Toronto News, February 6
: Pohl, John. The Beauty of Body Language, Montreal Gazette, February 4
: Salehi, Ashkan. 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month, The Strand, February 2
: Schechter, Fran, For 28 Days Only: Top Artists Fuel Black History Show, Now Toronto, February 1
: Arbus, Miriam, Artists Rethink Black History Month in 28 Days, The Newspaper: University of Toronto's Independent Weekly, January 26
: Goldberg, RoseLee, Shirin Neshat and Wangechi Mutu, Flash Art 282, January
2011: Elliot, Bobby, The Bearden Project: A Family Affair, The Huffington Post, December 7
: Saro-Wiwa, Zina, Interview with Wangechi Mutu, Kilimanjaro Magazine, Autumn/Winter
: Hampton, Dream, It Was All a Dream, Life + Times, September 19
: Kunitz, Daniel, Wangechi Mutu, Modern Painters, September
: Cotter, Holland, Under Threat: The Shock of the Old, New York Times, April 17
: Spence, Rachel, The Power of Instinct, The Financial Times, April 15
: Herndon, Lara Kristin, Wangechi Mutu, ArtPapers, March/April
: Hirsch, Faye, Sharon Stone In Abuja, Art in America, March
: Jones, Kellie, EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art, Duke University Press
: Enwezor, Okwui, Cut & Paste: Interview with Wangechi Mutu, Arise Magazine, Issue 11
: Wainaina, Binyavanga, One Day I Will Write About This Place, Minneapolis, MN: Gray Wolf Press, Cover image
: Tate, Greg and LaTasha Diggs, Coon Bidness: The Critical Ass Issue, pp. 22-23, 82
2010: Kantilal Patel, Alpesh, Wangechi Mutu, Gladstone Gallery, ArtForum Critics Pick, November 17
: Stern, Melissa, Hunt, Bury, Flee: Drawings By Wangechi Mutu, CityArts, Nov. 20
: Wehr, Anne, Wangechi Mutu, Hunt Bury Flee, Time Out New York, November 18-24
: Rosenberg, Karen, Wangechi Mutu, Hunt, Bury and Flee, The New York Times, November 12
: Yablonsky, Linda, Artifacts | Moths and Mercenaries, T Magazine, November 4
: Rohr-Bongard, Schreckensschoene Schnippelei, Manager Magazin, August
: This You Call Civilization? Art Gallery of Ontario, The Art Street Journal, August
: Smith, Roberta, Art? Life? Must We Choose? New York Times, July 2
: Hove, Jan Van, Droombeelden Uit Afrika, De Standard, July
: Nutt, Harry, Mischwesen, Frankfurter Rundschau, June 1
: Clarke, Bill, Wangechi Mutu: Art Gallery of Ontario, Modern Painters, Summer Woeller, Marcus, Sex und Gewalt (Vorsicht, Falle!), TAZ, May 12
: Arts and Culture: Wangechi Mutu, BBC World News Service, May 7
: Cash, Stephanie, Wangechi Mutu: Terrible Beauty, Art in America, May
: Bodin, Claudia, Monstrse Brute und Zwitter, Art: Das Kunstmagazin, May
: Kuhn, Nicola, Gefhrlich schne Gttinnen, Der Tagesspiegel, April 29
: Nys Dambrot, Shana, Daily Dose Pick, Flavorwire, April 28
: Karcher, Eva, Wangechi Mutu, Vogue.de, April 28
: Dembo, Wendy, My Dirty Little Heaven, coolhunting.com, April 28
: “Prospect.1 New Orleans Shows Public Art as a Form of Civic Engagement, artdaily.org, April 12
: Reed, Aimee, Interview with Wangechi Mutu, Daily Serving, April 12
: Rylance, David, Bold New Bodies for a Brave New World: David Altmejds The Index and Wangechi Mutus This you call civilization?, Transductions, April 4
: Wiensowski, Ingeborg, Grausamer Glamour: Schoen und erschreckend wirken die Collagen von
: Wangechi Mutu. Erstmals sind sie in Berlin zu sehen, Kultur Spiegel, April
: Evans, Matthew, We Categorize What Were Afraid Of, Deutsche Guggenheim Magazine, Issue 11, Spring
: Sandals, Leah, Questions and Artists: Wangechi Mutus Beauty Riff Collages, National Post, February 25
: The Short List, Portland Tribune, February 25
: Goldstein, Andrew, Wangechi Mutu Wins Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year Award, Art Info, February 23
: Row, D.K., Beauty Amid the Upheaval, The Oregonian, February 22
: Crow, Kelly, Wangechi Mutu is Deutsche Banks Artist of the Year 2010, Wall Street Journal, February 22
: Milroy, Sarah, Amid the Games, Artists Dissect the Body, The Globe and Mail, February 19
: Laurence, Robin, Shows Dissect the Body and Human Fears, The Georgia Straight, February 11-18
: Griffin, Kevin, Visceral Bodies Shows Off Our Fleshy Architecture, The Vancouver Sun, February 15
: Family Skeletons on Display, The Globe and Mail, February 8
: Ampofo, Akosua Adomako, and Signe Arnfred, African Feminist Politics of Knowledge, Sweden: The Nordic Africa Institute, Cover image
: Artpace Alumi Update, Artpace 10.1, San Antonio, TX
: Barson, Tanya, and Peter Gorschlter, Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic, London: Tate Publishing, Cover image
: Evans, Matthew, Wangechi Mutu: Between Beauty and Horror, ArtMag Issue 57
: Face to Face, Vogue Italia May Issue 717, p. 24
: Taguchi Art Collection, New Global Art. Japan: Kentaro Oshita
: Han, Heng-Gil, Network and Fluid, pp. 85, 117
: Patton, Sharon, Close Up: Enwezor, The International Review of African American Art
: Present, Frankfurt, Germany: Deusche Bank Artworks
: Spotlight: Artist of the Year 2010: Wangechi Mutu, ArtNews
2009: Smith, Roberta, Dress Codes: Beyond a Simple Fashion Statement, New York Times, October 8
: Cotter, Holland, The Week Ahead: April 26 - May 2, New York Times, April 24
: Sweeney, Eve, A Fertile Mind, Vogue, pp. 190, 248, April, Photographed by Annie Leibovitz
: Bernoni, Giorgia, Un Corpo Mutante e Ambiguo, Inside Art (Italy), March
: Mirov, Ben, ART: Pretty Ugly: Wangechi Mutu, A Shady Promise, Brooklyn Rail, February
: Wei, Lilly, New Orleans Report: Deliverance: The Biennial, Art In America, February
: Halpern, Ashlea, Out of Africa, TimeOut New York, pg 41 Issue 694 January 15-2
: Ligon, Glenn, Civic Engagement: To Miss New Orleans, Art Forum, January
: Stern, Steven, Looking Back: Prospect.1 New Orleans, Frieze, Issue 120, January
2008: Mueller, Kurt, Houston: Damaged Romanticism at the Blaffer Gallery, Art Lies, No. 60, Winter
: Gawlik, Goschka, Horror Beauties mit Zerschnittenen Seelen, Art Magazine, November 19
: Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, ARTnews, Los Angeles: Wangechi Mutu, pg 176 Vol 107/Number 10, Novermber
: Studio, Studio Magazine, Museum of Harlem, Upcoming Exhibitions, pg 13, Fall/Winter
: Austin, Tom, Dollar Signs, Moral Symbols: A MAM Exhibition Incites Plenty of Value Judgments, The Miami Herald, December 7
: Finch, Charlie, Lighter than Eros, Artnet, November 12
: Ellwood, Mark, Our Man In: New Orleans, GQ Magazine, November 7
: Robinson, Walter, Bleeding-Heart Biennale, Art Net Magazine, November 7
: Britt, Douglas, Blaffer Exhibit Finds Beauty in the Bleak, The Houston Chronicle, November 5
: Dewan, Shaila, New Orleans Rising, by Hammer and Art, New York Times, October 29
: Browne, Alix, Cuff Love, New York Times, October 3
: Watson, Simon, Wangechi Mutu: Mass in the Time of War, Whitewall, Spring
: Pagel, Daniel, Boldly Linking all the Pieces: Wangechi Mutu at Vielmetter, Los Angeles Times, April 11
: Miles, Christopher, Art Around Town, Los Angeles Weekly, April 10
: Dembo, Wendy, Wangechi Mutu, Cool Hunting, April 7
: Garcia, Kathryn, Culver City, Opening Night, For Your Art, April 2
: Continuing and Recommended, ArtScene, April
: Heartney, Eleanor, Make It New, Art in America, April
: Wangechi Mutu: Little Touched, Beautiful Decay.com, April 1
: Catherine Wagley, Destroying Prettiness: Wangechi Mutu and Kara Walker, Daily Serving, March 31
: Goldman, Edward, ArtTalk: Art, Sex, and Videotape, KCRW, March 18
: Shaw, Alex, More Flavor: Lecture, Wangechi Mutu, Flavorpill, March 13
: Turner, Elisa, Wilfredo Lam Meets Miami, Art Circuits: Miami Visual Art Guide, Spring
: Enright, Robert, Resonant Surgeries: The Collaged World of Wangechi Mutu, Border Crossings Magazine, Issue No. 105, February
: Yablonsky, Linda, Poll Positions, Artforum.com, February 6
: Feature: Paper Cuts, Artkrush, Issue 77, February 6
: Martin, Courtney J., Pick: Wangechu Mutu at Victoia Miro Gallery, London, Artforum, January 18
: Martin, Courtney J., Wangechi Mutu: Yo.n.l, Artkrush, Issue 75, January 9
: Cox, Lorraine Morales, Transformed Bodies, Colonial Wounds & Ethnographic Tropes: Wangechi Mutu in 2008
: Violence, N. Paradoxa International Feminist Art Journal, Ed. Katy Deepwell, Volume 21
2007: Volzke, Daniel, Ab dem 22. November: Wangechi Mutu zeigt opulente Collagen in London, Monopol, December
: Steinberg, Claudia, Aufbruchstimmung an der Lower East Side, Kunstzitung, December
: Macmillan, Kyle, Exhibit shows a world of fine artists, Denver Post, November 1
: Eshun, Ekow, The Art of Darkness, Vogue, November
: Row, DK, In praise of bolder women, The Oregonian, October 29
: Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, The Big Bend Sentinel, September 20
: Mullins, Charlotte, Painting People, Figure Painting Today, pg 110
: Voelz Chandler, Mary, Inside the Box: New Museum building squares up space for art, education, community, Rocky Mountain News, August 23
: Dimling Cochran, Rebecca, Pick: Wangechi Mutu at ACA Gallery, Atlanta, Artforum, June 7
: Heartney, Eleanor, Worldwide Women, Art in America, June/July
: Aldarondo, Cecilia, Ghada Amer + Wangechi Mutu, Art Papers, May/June
: Kruger, Barbara, Wangechi Mutu, Interview Magazine, April
: Nolan, Joe, Wangechi Mutu: Sleeping Heads Lie, Number Independent Arts Journal, No 58, Spring
: Koenig, Wendy, Wangechi Mutu: Memphis, Art Papers, March/April
: Abbie, Mary, Feminism Revisited: Art by two African-born women revitalizes feminist issues in a handsome Franklin Art Show, Star Tribune, March
: Brooks, Amra, Fair Report: Art LA, artinfo, February 10
: Cotter, Holland, Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage, The New York Times, January 29
: Ellis, Patricia, Catching up with Charles (Saatchi), FlashArt, January/February
: Oguibe, Olu, Looking Back: the most significant shows of 2006, frieze, January, issue 104
: Spaulding, David, New York, Interrupted, Artforum, January
2006: Mullins, Charlotte, Painting People: the state of the art, Thames and Hudson, London
: Cameron, Dan, New York, Interrupted, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
: Jongbloed, Marjorie, Entangled: Approaching Contemporary African Artists, Marjorie Jongbloed and VolkswagenStiftung, Hannover
: Wangechi Mutu- The Art Universe, Vanity Fair, December, pg 352
: Koeppel, Fredric, Gorgeous surfaces in a nightmare of sensuality, corruption, violence, The Memphis Commercial Appeal, November 10
: Maart, Brenton, Distant Relatives: Artists of the African Diaspora, Mail and Gardian, Western Cape South Africa, Vol. 22 #43, pg 2, Nov 3-9
: New Prints Review, Art on Paper, November/December
: Carver, Jon, Still Points of the Turning World, Art Papers, November/December, pg 69
: Martin, Courtney, Site San Fe 6th International Biennial: Still Points of the Turning World, Contemporary, Issue 86, pg 64
: Blumenstein, Ellen, L.A. Confidential, Monopol, November/December
: Korotkin, Lindsay, Reviews, Tema Celeste, November/December, pg 78
: Berkovitch, Ellen, SITE Santa Fes 6th International Biennial, artUS, November
: Colpitt, Frances, A Slow-Motion Biennial, Art in America, October, pp 69-75
: Murray, DC, Wangechi Mutu at SFMOMA, Art in America, October, pg 205
: Wright, Karen, Saatchi Exhibits Totemic Art, Surrealist Penis, bloomberg.com, October 6
: Muchnic, Suzanne, The Art Explosion, Los Angeles Times, October 1
: Rimanelli, David, Scene & Herd: A Night at the Opera, Artforum.com, September 26
: Blum, Kelly, and Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, ed. Art is Passion, Blanton Museum of Art: America Art Since 1900,
: The Articulate, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
: Auricchio, Laura, Wangechi Mutu, Art Papers, September/October
: Murinik, Tracy, Afro-Alien Exquisite Corpses, Art South Africa, Spring, pp 26-29
: Klopper, Sandra, Distant Relatives/Relative Distance, Art South Africa, Spring, pp 64-65
: Black, Ezrha Jean, Labyrinths of SITE: Ottmann scales down numbers and theme, but stays big on art, artillery, vol 1 no 1, September
: Vogel, Carol, Where Bel Canto Meets Paintbrush, New York Times, August 15
: Morris, Tom, "Still Points of the Turning World", ArtReview, July, issue 1, p 37
: Roberts, Angela, "Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism", ArtReview, July, issue 1, p 139
: Walker, Hollis, "Colonial apparitions", Pasatiempo, July 7-13
: Fischer, Zane, "Art Without Excuses", Santa Fe Reporter, July 5-11
: Wangechi Mutu, The New Yorker, June 26
: Wangechi Mutu, The New Yorker, June 12
: Smith, Roberta, Wangechi Mutu: An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems, New York Times, June 9
: Kazanjian, Dodie, Fierce Creatures, Vogue, June
: Perryer, Sophie, Distant Relatives/Relative Distance (catalogue no.21), June
: Berwick, Carly, Jungle-Punk Princesses Populate Wangechi Mutus Solo NYC Debut, Bloomberg.com, May 31
: Wilson, Michael, House Red, Artforum.com Diary, May 25
: Pollack, Barbara, Wangechi Mutu: An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems, Time Out New York, Issue 556, May 25-31
: Miller, Paul, A Gathering of the Tribes #11, Time Out New York, Issue 556, pg 70, May 25-31
: Taylor, Catharine P, Charles Saatchi messes with USA Today, adweek.blogs.com, May 12
: Alberge, Dalva, Hang it allthey want to sneak Saatchis junk into our academy, The Times (UK), May 11
: Lewis, Caroline, Saatchis USA Today at the Royal Academy of Arts London, 24hourmuseum.org, May 10
: Reynolds, Nigel, Saatchi is ready for another sensation at the RA, The Daily Telegraph, April 5
: Goodyear, Sarah, Wangechi Mutu: An Artist Comes into Her Own, Bklyn, Spring, page 20
: Wangechi Mutu at SFMoma, ArtInfo.com, March
: Mullins, Charlotte, Painting People, Thames & Hudson
: Helfand, Glen, Voluptuous Horror Wangechi Mutu harnesses the power of violence and beauty,
: San Francisco Bay Guardian.com,vol. 10 no. 14, January 4-10
: Helfand, Glen, Wangechi Mutu, Artforum.com, January 3
: Cotter, Holland, Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage, New York Times, January
: 1111 Journal of Literature and Art, Volume III
: Thomas, Liz, Wangechi Mutu, The F-Word Zine, Number 2, page 2
: For Committed Civic Engagement, The Cooper Union, pg 16
: Oliveira, Filipa, Wangechi Mutu, Arte Contemporanea, pg 66
: Schmidt, Jason, Artists: photographs by Jason Schmidt, pg 90
: Cotter, Holland. ART; Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage, The New York Times, Section E, pg1, January
2005: Paul, Jonathan S., Places, Everyone, The New York Times Style Magazine, Winter
: Oliveira, Filipa, Wangechi Mutu, W-Art Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue no. 8, pages 66-69
: Future Greats 2005, ArtReview, Volume IX, December, page 99
: Fricke, Kirsten, Sex Sells, Beautiful Decay, December
: Smith, Roberta, Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist, The New York Times, November 18
: Egon Schiele: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections, Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, New York, (catalog illustration, page 388)
: Adjaye, David, Top Ten, Artforum, November
: Trellis, Emma, Mutable Mutu, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, October
: Weinberg, Michelle, Out of Africa: Female Forms that Tell a Tale of Torture, Miami New Times, Sept. 15
: Turner, Elisa, Going Solo: Wangechi Mutu Finds Inspiration In Her Native Africa, The Miami Herald, Sept.11
: Hatcher, David, Poco a Go-Go, X-tra, Volume 8, Number 1, Fall Issue
: Arty Hour, The Herald, August 12
: Luis, Carlos M., Wangechi Mutu y su Amazing Grace, Artes & Letras, August 7
: Amazing Grace, Miami Monthly, August
: Fricke, Kirsten, Wangechi Mutu, Beautiful/Decay, Issue L, August
: Ellis, Patricia, Wangechi Mutu - The Triumph of Painting, The Saatchi Gallery essay
: Bravo, Gabriel C., Wangechi Mutu Art Exhibit, MiamiPoetryReview.com, July 22
: Suarez de Jesus, Carlos, Mutus Mojo, The Miami New Times, July 21
: Amazing Grace: First Solo Show for Kenyan-born Artist, Coral Gables Gazette, July 21
: Sheets, Hilarie M., Using Art to Build Pride, The New York Times, June 1
: Kapferer, Roland, Africa Remix, Frieze, June/July/August Issue 92, page 156
: Heartney, Eleanor, Return to the Real, Art in America, June/July, pages 85-89
: Korotkin, Joyce B., Fight or Flight, Tema Celeste, May/June, pages 76-77
: de La Forterie, Maud, Africa Remix Continental, Art Actuel, Issue #38, May/June, pages 47-50
: Post-Black, Post-Soul, or Hip-Hop Iconography: Defining the new Aesthetics, The International
: Review of African American Art, Volume 20 #2
: Lo, Melissa, Wangechi Mutu, Flash Art, May/June Issue, Vol. XXXVIII, NO. 242, page 146
: Chevalier, Jari, Greater New York Show at P.S.1, The New York Art World.com, April
: Brielmaier, Isolde, Wangechi Mutu: Re-Imagining The World, Parkett, No. 74, pp. 6-13
: Where to buy - Wangechi Mutu, The Week, March 25
: Andersson, Ruben, Mixed Bag of African avant-garde, The London Globe, March 20
: Rosenberg, Karen, Artists on the Verge of a Breakthrough, New York Magazine, March 3
: Continued and Recommended, ArtScene, Vol.24, no.7, March
: Painted Ladies, SouthBank, March
: Myers, Holly, Artists at play in the world, Los Angeles Times, February 25
: Brownell, Ginanne, "Front and Center: In London, it's the year of African art", Newsweek, www.msnbc.com, February 17
: Harrison, Sara, Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Art Monthly, February
: Pollack, Barbara, Panic Room, Time Out New York, January 13-19, pages 55-56
: Biro, Matthew, "Reviews - Midwest", Art Papers, pg. 51, January/February Issue
2004: Graham-Dixon, Andrew, All stuck and scribbled, The Sunday Telegraph, December 19, page 112
: Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, BBC News UK edition, December 13
: Cripps, Charlotte, Work at the cutting edge, The Independent Review, December 2, page 18
: A-Z London, The Art Newspaper, No.153, December
: Ciuraru, Carmela, Cutting Remarks, Cover Page and Feature, ArtNews, November
: Leitzes, Cary Estes, Body Politic, and Kunitz, Daniel, US Editors Letter, ArtReview, cover and feature, pages 61-63, September
: Cotter, Holland, Black comes in Many Shadings, The New York Times, Friday, August 13, page E29
: Kelly, Kevin, Reward for Creative Touch, Daily Nation, Lifestyle Magazine, August 11
: Johnson, Kenneth, Shes Come Undone, The New York Times, July 9
: Ribas, Joao, Shes come Undone, Time Out, July 8, page 55
: Kerr, Merrily, Extreme Makeovers, Art on Paper, July/August, page 28-29
: Schwendener, Martha, "She's Come Undone", ArtForum.com critics pick, June
: Saltz, Jerry, Borough Hall, Village Voice, May 3
: Smith, Roberta, "Emerging Talent and Plenty of It", The New York Times, March 12
: Martin, Courtney, Looking Both Ways, Flash Art, January/February
: Worman, Alex, "L.A. Confidential", Artnet.com, January 24
: Daily, Meghan, "Peter Norton - Collecting with a Conscience", Guggenheim Magazine, Winter, pg 30
2003: Williamson, Sue, Looking Both Ways, Artthrob, December
: Cotter, Holland, Redefining the African Diaspora, New York Times, November 21
: Pagel, David, Harrowing, hallucinatory visions - Wangechi Mutu at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles Times, October 24
: Martin, Courtney, Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Flash Art, October
: Fleey, Peter, Black President, Frieze Magazine, October, page 118
: Sirmans, Franklin, Portfolio, Grand Street, Fall
: Koirala, Snigdha, Black President, BOMB, Fall, page 17
: Cotter, Holland, King of Music, New York Times, July 18
: Cotter, Holland, Off The Record, New York Times, May 16
: Cotter, Holland, Wangechi Mutu, New York Times, March 14
: McKanic, Arlene, Mutus Disturbing Creatures at JCAL, Q.guide, March 13
: Ashford, Doug, Off The Record, Time Out Magazine, May 8-15
: Croal, Aida Mashaka, Africana, March
: Oneacre, Alison, Hallowed Walls, Womens Wear Daily, February 3
2002: Murray, Soraya, Africaine, NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, Fall/Winter, p. 88-93
: Banai, Nuit, Body of Evidence, One World, August/September, p. 124-125
: Hazlewood, Carl E., Hot Shows From the Edge: Summer in the City, NYArts, September
: Barliant, Claire, Africaine, Art on Paper, July/August
: Johnson, Ken, Art Guide, The New York Times, July 5
: Cotter, Holland, From the Ferment of Liberation Comes a Revolution in African Art, New York Times, Feb. 17
: Budick, Arielle, Identity, a Concept Explored in 2 Harlem Shows, Newsday, February 1
: Cunningham, Bill, Old and New, New York Times, January 27
2001: African art exhibit, Daily News, November 25
: Sonkin, Rebecca, Good Rap, Art News, April, p. 41
2000: Brockington, Horace, After Representation, The International Review of African American Art, p. 47
: Ziolkowski, Thad, The Magic City, Artforum, October
: The Magic City, The New Yorker, August 14, p. 14
: Johnson, Ken, The Magic City, The New York Times, August 11
: Johnson, Ken, The Magic City, The New York Times, August 4
1999: Sirmans, Franklin, Surely it Cannot Burn so Long, Time Out Magazine, November 25December 2
: Oguibe, Olu and Enwezor, Okwui, Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, The MIT Press, p. 10
1998: Sadao, Amy, Transgressive Imaginations, essay and interview on Wangechi Mutu and Rina Banerjee

Film/TV/Radio

2013: A Necessary Madness: The Art of Wangechi Mutu, MUSE Film and Television, Inc., New York, NY

Interviews

2023: Wangechi Mutu: In conversation with curators Vivian Crockett and Margot Norton, New Museum, New York, NY
: "The Timeless, Ancient Language of Art: Wangechi Mutu," TED, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 22
2020: Wangechi Mutu, Kelly Baum, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky, and Alisa LaGamma. "An Evening with Artist Wangechi Mutu," The Met, New York, NY
2013: Green, Tyler, "Modern Art Notes Podcast: Wangechi Mutu," April 18 (Link)

Catalogues

2023: Norton, Margot, Vivian Crockett, Maureen Mahon, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, and Tina Campt. "Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined," The New Museum
2022: Tandiwe Bell, Aisha, Nora Lawrence, John P. Stern and Wangechi Mutu. "Wangechi Mutu. Storm King Art Center" X Artists' Books.
2021: Liebert, E., Fellah, N. R., Griswold, W., Liebert, E., Keith, N. J., Wexler, L., Lax, T. J., and Griswold, W. (2021). Picturing Motherhood Now. Pg 118-119. Cleveland Museum of Art
: Schmuckli, Claudia, Issac Julien and Wangechi Mutu. "I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?" de Young/ Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Del Monico Books, D.A.P., New York, NY
2020: de la Fuente, Alejandro. "Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora, Issue 129," Hutchins Center at Harvard University, Indiana University Press, pg 27-45
2019: Hockley, Rujeko; and Jane Panetta. "Whitney Biennial 2019," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY pg 58
: English, D., Barat, C., and Lowery, G. D. (2019). Among Others, Blackness at MoMA. Pg 322-323. Museum of Modern Art.
: Barat, Charlotte. ed. "Among Others: Blackness at MoMA," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 2019.
2018: Schneider, Anna, "Blind Faith: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Contemporary Art," Munich: Prestel, pg. 122-127.
: Chao, Marina, "Multiply, Identify, Her," New York: International Center for Photography, pg 52-57.
2017: Lewis, Heidi and Roland Mitchell, "Beyond Mammy, Jezebel and Sculpture and Sapphire," Portland: The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, 2017, pg 14; 36-39; 65-67.
: Colo, Holland Cotter, Mary Anne Staniszewski, Rachel Gugelberger, and Jeanette Ingberman, "Unfinished Memories/30 Yeras of Exit Art," New York: Steidl, pg. 88
: "Thirty Years," New York: Socrates Sculpture Park, pg 70-71.
: "Lucy's Iris: Contemporary African Women Artists," (El Iris de Lucy: artistas africanas contemporaneas), Madrid: Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, pg. 176-179.
: Direktor, Ruth, "Rearding Africa: Contemporary Art and Afro Futurism," Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, pg 92.
: Phillips, Lisa, "New Museum: 40 Years New," New York: Phaidon, pg 164.
2016: Olowu, Duro, "Making and Unmaking," London: Ridinghouse and Camdnen Arts Centre, pg 36-37.
: "Biennale Internationale de L'art Contemporain Casablanca," Casablanca: Maroc Premium Foundation, pg 32
: Demand, Thomas (editor), "L'image volée," Milan: Fondazione Prada, pg. 13; 94-96
: Della Monica, Lauren P., “Bodies of Work: Contemporary Figurative Painting,” Schiffer, Atglen, PA
2015: Hudson, Suzanne. "World of Art, Contemporary Painting," Thames & Hudson, pg 79-80
: Malbert, Roger, Drawing People: The Human Figure in Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson
2013: Kent, Rachel, Wangechi Mutu, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia. Includes essays by Mbugua Kimani, Dan Cameron, and Adrienne Edwards.
: Schoonmaker, Trevor; Stiles, Kristine; and Tate, Greg, "Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey," Duke University Press
: Getlein, Mark, Living With Art, Tenth Edition, McGraw Hill, pp. 55-56
2012: VISIONS 15 Years Deutsche + Guggenheim, Deutsche Bank AG, November
: Blisle, Jos, Wangechi Mutu, Muse d'art contemporain de Montral
2011: The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain Angela
: Thompson, Susan, "Wangechi Mutu, The Luminous Interval: The D. Daskalopoulos Collection"
: Hou, Hanru, The Power of Doubt, pp. 100-107
2010: Htte, Friedhelm, Ed., Wangechi Mutu: My Dirty Little Heaven, with essays by Okwui Enwezor, Lauri Firstenberg, Courtney J. Martin, and Klaus Ottman, Deutsche Guggenheim, Hatje Kanz, Berlin
: Moos, David and Jennifer Gonzalez, Odili Donad Odita, and Raphael Rubinstein. "Wangechi Mutu: This You Call Civilization?" Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, DAP Books.
: Visceral Bodies, Exhibition catalogue, Vancouver Art Gallery, pp. 56-57
: The Visible Vagina, Exhibition catalogue, Francis Naumann Fine Art/David Nolan Gallery
2009: rebelle, Art and Feminism 1960-2009, Museum of Modern Art, Arnheim, NL
: Ditner, Judy, Ed., Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, ICP/ Steidl
: Holzwarth, Hans Werner, Ed. 100 Contemporary Artists, Taschen, Berlin
: Bonham-Carter, Charlotte, and David Hodge, The Contemporary Art Book, Goodman Books, Carlton Press, London
: Hobbs, Robert, Franklin Sirmans and Michele Wallace, 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection
: Scala, W. Mark, ed., Paint Made Flesh, First Center for Visual Arts, Vanderbilt University Press
: In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor, Laguna Art Museum in association with Gingko Press
: At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, New York: CCS Bard
: Holzwarth, Hans Werner, Art Now, Vol. 3, Taschen, essay by Astrid Mania
: Prospect.1 New Orleans, texts by Barbara Bleomink, Dan Cameron, Lolis Eric Elie, and Claire Tancons, Picturebox Inc., Brooklyn, NY, November
: Singleton, Douglas Ed., Wangechi Mutu: A Shady Promise, Damiani Press, with essays by Isolde Brielmaier, Malik Gaines and Michael Veal, March
: Video Studio, Studio Museum in Harlem, p. 5, Fall/Winter
: Sultan, Terry, David Pagel, Colin Gardner, Claudia Schmuckli, Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, D Giles Limited, London
: Yo.n.l, Victoia Miro Gallery, London, UK
2007: Global Feminisms, New Directions in Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum Merrell Publishers Limited, pp 53, 280
: Wangechi Mutu: The Cinderella Curse, ACA Gallery of SCAD, November
2006: Zoubok, Pavel, The New Collage, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
: Enwezor, Okwui, The Unhomely Phantom Scenes in Global Society, October
: Wangechi Mutu, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, New York
: Gupta, Anjali, Wangechi Mutu, Blanton Museum of Art, American Art Since 1900, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, pgs 220-221
: INFINITE PAINTING- Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, September, pg 122
: Brandstetter, Anna-Maria, Violence/Trauma/Memory, ed. Marjorie Jongbloed, Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover, Germany
: Ottmann, Klaus, Still Points of the Turning World, SITE Santa Fe International Biennial Exhibition, July
: Bonami, Francesco, Cosulich, Canarutto, Sarah, Infinite Painting, Villa Manin Centro dArte Contemporanea, exhibition catalog, pg.122-123
2005: Dexter, Emma, Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawings, Phaidon Press, London and New York,essay page 214, illustrations page 215-217, bio page 334
: Africa Remix, Hayward Gallery, London
: McDowell, Tara, New Work: Wangechi Mutu, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
: Kantor, Jordan, Drawing from the Modern: 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York, p. 185
: Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures, Pamela Auchincloss Arts Management and University of Richmond Museums, VA
: Greater New York 2005, P.S. 1. Contemporary Art Center/ MoMA, Queens, NY, March Kuramitsu, Kris and LeFelle-Collins, Lizetta, Linkages & Themes in the African Diaspora: Selections from the Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton Art Collections,
: Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco
: Boswell, Peter, Wangechi Mutu - Amazing Grace, Miami Art Museum
: Vielmetter, Susanne Wangechi Mutu, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, with essay by Christopher Miles
: eleven eleven {1111} Journal of Literature and Art, California College of the Arts San Francisco
: Brielmaier, Isolde and Tu, Thuy Linh N., Rewind/Re-Cast/Review, Berrie Arts Center, NJ
: Color Wheel Oblivion, Marella Arte Contemporanea, pp. 38-40
2004: Africa Remix, Kunstpalast Dsseldorf, Germany
: Gwangju Biennial, South Korea
: Muhammad, Dalya Erica, Wangechi Mutu, The Studio Museum in Harlem, July
: Cameron, Dan, Artpace Residencies and Exhibition Catalog, pg. 63-69
2003: Farrell, Laurie Ann, Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora Museum for African Art, Long Island City, NY, catalogue essay by Laurie Firstenberg, Perverse Anthropology
: Schoonmaker, Trevor, Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, The New Museum, New York
1997: Jones, Kellie, Lifes Little Necessities: Installations by Women in the 1990s, Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, p. 287

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2018: Honoree African Art Awards Dinner, National Museum of African Art, Washington D.C.
2017: National Artist Award, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO
2016: Cultural Leadership Award, American Federation of Arts, New York, NY
2014: United States Artist Fellow
2013: African Diaspora Awards, New York, NY
: Blackstar Film Festival Audience Award for Favorite Experimental Film, Philadelphia, PA
: Brooklyn Museum Artist of the Year, Brooklyn, NY
2011: Cooper Union Augustus St. Gaudens Distinguished Artist Award, New York, NY
2010: Artist of the Year Award, Deutsche Bank
2008: The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, New York, NY
: Cooper Union Urban Visionaries Awards, Emerging Talent Award, New York, NY
2007: The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Award New York, NY
2006: Presidents Citation in Art, Cooper Union, New York, NY
2005: Artist in Residence, Steep Rock, Washington, CT
2004: Artist in Residence, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
: The Chrysalis Award, The Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art, New York, NY
2003: Artist in Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: Artist in Residence, Cooper Union, New York, NY
2001: Jamaica Center for the Arts Fellowship, Queens, NY
2000: Fannie B. Pardee Fellowship, New Haven, CT
1998: Masters of Fine Art Fellowship, Sculpture Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1994: Richard Leakey Merit Award, Nairobi, Kenya

Public Collections

: Altoids Collection / New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
: Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin, TX
: Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
: The Hague, Netherlands
: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: Judith Rothschild Foundation / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, QC
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, NC
: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
: Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
: Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
: Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MI
: San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
: Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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