# Wangechi Mutu URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/wangechi-mutu/ Represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles 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 solo exhibitions include *Black Soil Poems*, Galleria Borghese, Rome (2025); Wangechi Mutu: *Intertwined*, New Museum, New York, NY (2023), traveled to New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (2024); *Wangechi Mutu*, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY (2022), Wangechi Mutu: *I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?*, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (2021); *A Promise to Communicate*, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2018); Wangechi Mutu: *The End of eating Everything*, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX (2018); *Wangechi Mutu: The End of carrying All*, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (2016) and *Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey,*Nasher Museum of Art at Durham, Durham, NC*(2013)*Traveled to the Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY (2013-14). Recent group exhibitions include *Into the Time Horizon*, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV (2026); *New Humans, Memories of the Future*, The New Museum, New York, NY (2025); *The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure*, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK Travelled to The Box, Plymouth, UK (2024); Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (2025); *Spirit in the Land*, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL, Traveling to the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, MI (2024); *Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics*, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA (2024); *Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940*, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2024); *Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage*, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (2023) Traveled to the St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, MO (2024); *A Gateway to Possible Worlds: Art & Science**Fiction* at Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris (2022); *Feminine**Power: The Divine to the Demonic*, The British Museum, London, UK (2022); *In the Black Fantastic*, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2022); *What Is Left Unspoken, Love*, at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (2022) and *Prospect.5: Yesterday We Said Tomorrow*, New Orleans (2021–22). Wangechi Mutu has had her work featured in the the 2019 Whitney Biennial in New York, the 56th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Venice Biennale in 2015, the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India in 2012 and the 10th Biennale d’art Contemporain de Lyon in 2009. She is the recipient of the National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship, In Partnership with ArtFund and Whitworth, The University of Manchester, 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. ## Exhibitions - [Ongoingness](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/ongoingness.md): July 25 — September 5, 2026 · Gallery III · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Alec Egan, Nicole Eisenman, Liz Glynn, Karl Haendel, Samuel Levi Jones, Mario Joyce, Mary Kelly, Nate Lewis, Hugo McCloud, Rodney McMillian, Dave Muller, Wangechi Mutu, The Estate of Pope.L, Robert Pruitt, Deborah Roberts, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Ariane Vielmetter - [Wangechi MutuKambui OlujimiKennedy Yanko in61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia: In Minor Keys](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/in-minor-keys-61st-international-art-exhibition-of-la-biennale-di-venezia.md): May 9 — November 22, 2026 · Venice, Italy · Artists: Wangechi Mutu, Kambui Olujimi, Kennedy Yanko - [Andrea Bowers Karl Haendel Hugo McCloud Rodney McMillianWangechi Mutu inInto the Time Horizon](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/into-the-time-horizon.md): March 28 — September 26, 2026 · The Nevada Museum of Art · Artists: Andrea Bowers, Karl Haendel, Hugo McCloud, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu - [Wangechi Mutu inNew Humans: Memories of the Future](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/wangechi-mutu-new-humans-memories-of-the-future.md): March 21 — June 30, 2026 · New Museum · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Edgar ArceneauxWangechi MutuPaul Mpagi Sepuya inImagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/arceneaux-mutu-sepuya-imagining-black-diasporas.md): December 15, 2024 — August 3, 2025 · Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Wangechi Mutu, Paul Mpagi Sepuya - [Wangechi MutuDeborah Roberts inThe Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/wangechi-mutudeborah-roberts-inthe-time-is-always-now-artists-reframe-the-black-figure.md): November 9, 2024 — February 9, 2025 · Philadelphia Museum of Art · Artists: Wangechi Mutu, Deborah Roberts - [Nicole EisenmanWangechi Mutu inScientia Sexualis](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/nicole-eisenman-wangechi-mutu-scientia-sexualis.md): October 5, 2024 — March 2, 2025 · Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA) · Artists: Nicole Eisenman, Wangechi Mutu - [Wangechi Mutu inThe Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/wangechi-mutudeborah-roberts-inthe-time-is-always-now-artists-reframe-the-black-figure-2.md): June 29 — September 29, 2024 · The Box, Plymouth · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [April BeyWangechi Mutu inWangechi Mutu & April Bey Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/april-beywangechi-mutu-inwangechi-mutu-april-bey-surrealism-and-us-caribbean-and-african-diasporic-artists-since-1940.md): March 10 — July 28, 2024 · Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Wangechi Mutu inThe Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/the-time-is-always-now-artists-reframe-the-black-figure.md): February 22 — May 19, 2024 · National Portrait Gallery, London, UK · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Genevieve GaignardWangechi Mutu Deborah Roberts inMultiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/genevieve-gaignard-wangechi-mutu-deborah-roberts-multiplicity-blackness-in-contemporary-american-collage-mfahouston.md): February 18 — May 12, 2024 · Museum of Fine Arts, Houston  · Artists: Genevieve Gaignard, Wangechi Mutu, Deborah Roberts - [Wangechi MutuIntertwined](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/wangechi-mutu-intertwined-new-orleans.md): January 31 — April 14, 2024 · The New Orleans Museum of Art · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Wangechi Mutu My Cave Call](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/wangechi-mutu-my-cave-call.md): January 12 — March 31, 2024 · St Louis Art Museum · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Genevieve GaignardWangechi MutuDeborah Roberts inMultiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/genevieve-gaignard-wangechi-mutu-deborah-roberts-multiplicity-blackness-in-contemporary-american-collage-fristartmuseum.md): September 15 — December 31, 2023 · Frist Art Museum · Artists: Genevieve Gaignard, Wangechi Mutu, Deborah Roberts - [Wangechi MutuIntertwined](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/wangechi-mutu-intertwined.md): March 2 — June 4, 2023 · The New Museum · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [It’s Time: Kwame Brathwaite, Kwesi Botchway, Genevieve Gaignard, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Paul Mpagi Sepuya](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/group-exhibition-sepuya-gaignard-mcmillain-mutu.md): January 14 — February 25, 2023 · Gallery III · Artists: Kwesi Botchway, Genevieve Gaignard, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Paul Mpagi Sepuya - [Wangechi Mutu](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/wangechi-mutu-storm-king.md): May 21 — November 7, 2022 · Storm King Art Center · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Laura Aguilar Dave McKenzieRodney McMillianWangechi MutuProspect.5 New Orleans: Yesterday you said tomorrow](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/prospect-5-or-with-laura-aguilar-rodney-mcmillian-wangechi-mutu-dave-mckenzie.md): October 23, 2021 — January 23, 2022 · The Hancock Whitney Welcome Center, New Orleans, LA · Artists: Laura Aguilar, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Dave McKenzie - [Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening?](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/wangechi-mutu-i-am-speaking-are-you-listening.md): May 7 — November 7, 2021 · Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [20 Years Anniversary Exhibition Part 1](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/20-year-anniversary-exhibition.md): July 18 — August 29, 2020 · Gallery I · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Math Bass, Whitney Bedford, Andrea Bowers, Kim Dingle, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Genevieve Gaignard, Liz Glynn, Karl Haendel, Raffi Kalenderian, Ruben Ochoa, Stanya Kahn, Hayv Kahraman, Mary Kelly, Shana Lutker, Dave McKenzie, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Esther Pearl Watson, The Estate of Pope.L, Deborah Roberts, The Estate of Steve Roden, Stefanie Schneider, Amy Sillman, Arlene Shechet, John Sonsini, Monique van Genderen, Tâm Văn Trần, Patrick Wilson - [The Facade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/wangechi-mutu-commission-for-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art.md): September 9, 2019 — January 12, 2020 · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Sculpture](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/sculpture.md): June 1 — August 3, 2019 · Gallery III · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Nicole Eisenman, Liz Glynn, Mary Kelly, Hugo McCloud, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Ruben Ochoa - [Wangechi Mutu in Whitney Biennial 2019](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/wangechi-mutu-whitney-biennial-2019.md): May 17 — September 22, 2019 · Whitney Museum of American Art · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Inaugural Exhibition](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/inaugural-exhibition.md): February 16 — March 23, 2019 · Artists: Nicola Tyson, Nicole Eisenman, Rodney McMillian, Sean Duffy, The Estate of Pope.L, Karl Haendel, Andrea Bowers, Edgar Arceneaux, Stanya Kahn, Sadie Benning, Mary Kelly, Wangechi Mutu, Charles Gaines - [Wangechi Mutu](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/wangechi-mutu.md): September 23, 2017 — January 14, 2018 · The Contemporary Austin · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2013-10-wangechi-mutu-wangechi-mutu-a-fantastic-journey.md): October 11, 2013 — March 9, 2014 · Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2013-03-wangechi-mutu-wangechi-mutu-a-fantastic-journey.md): March 21 — July 21, 2013 · Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Wangechi Mutu: Nitarudi Ninarudi I plan to return I am returning.](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2012-11-wangechi-mutu-s-nitarudi-s-ninarudi-br-s-i-plan-to-return-s-i-am-returning.md): November 3 — December 22, 2012 · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Summer Group Show](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-08-edgar-arceneaux-whitney-bedford-andrea-bowers-summer-group-show.md): August 7 — 30, 2010 · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Whitney Bedford, Andrea Bowers, Jane Callister, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Charles Gaines, Karl Haendel, Jutta Koether, Alice Könitz, Shana Lutker, Rodney McMillian, Martin McMurray, Wangechi Mutu, Elizabeth Neel, Ruben Ochoa, Amy Sillman, Joel Tauber, Tâm Văn Trần - [Wangechi Mutu: My Dirty Little Heaven](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-06-wangechi-mutu-my-dirty-little-heaven.md): June 25 — September 12, 2010 · WIELS, Brussels · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Wangechi Mutu: My Dirty Little Heaven](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-04-wangechi-mutu-my-dirty-little-heaven.md): April 30 — June 13, 2010 · Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Wangechi Mutu: This You Call Civilization?](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-02-wangechi-mutu-this-you-call-civilization.md): February 24 — May 23, 2010 · AGO - Art Gallery of Ontario · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Inaugural Group Exhibition](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/culver-city-inaugural-group-exhibition.md): January 23 — March 6, 2010 · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Jedediah Caesar, Olga Koumoundouros, Wangechi Mutu, Ruben Ochoa, The Estate of Steve Roden, Amy Sillman, Tâm Văn Trần, Patrick Wilson - [Wangechi Mutu: In Whose Image](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2008-11-wangechi-mutu-in-whose-image.md): November 12 — December 7, 2008 · Kunstverein Wien · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Wangechi Mutu: Little Touched](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2008-03-wangechi-mutu-little-touched.md): March 15 — May 3, 2008 · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Cut](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2005-10-laylah-ali-edgar-arceneaux-whitney-bedford-cut.md): October 15 — December 3, 2005 · Artists: Laylah Ali, Edgar Arceneaux, Whitney Bedford, Mark Bradford, Bjorn Copeland, Sean Duffy, Les Leveque, Wangechi Mutu, Amy Sillman, Mathilde ter Heijne - [Wangechi Mutu: Amazing Grace](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2005-07-wangechi-mutu-amazing-grace.md): July 21 — October 9, 2005 · Miami Art Museum · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [Wangechi Mutu: problematica](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2005-02-wangechi-mutu-problematica.md): February 12 — March 26, 2005 · Artists: Wangechi Mutu - [New](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2004-01-steven-criqui-sean-duffy-martin-mcmurray-new.md): January 10 — February 14, 2004 · Artists: Steven Criqui, Sean Duffy, Martin McMurray, Yunhee Min, Wangechi Mutu, Robert Olsen, The Estate of Steve Roden, Patrick Wilson - [Wangechi Mutu: Pagan Poetry](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2003-10-wangechi-mutu-pagan-poetry.md): October 15 — November 18, 2003 · Artists: Wangechi Mutu ## Biography 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 Exhibitions** 2025 "Wangechi Mutu: Cleaning Earth," Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy "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 Art Center, 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 2020-2021 "Screenings 6: Wangechi Mutu," University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 2019-2020 "The Facade Commission: Wangechi Mutu The New Ones, will free Us," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 2018 "Wangechi Mutu: The End of eating Everything," Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX "Wangechi Mutu: A Promise to Communicate," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA ([Link](https://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/wangechi-mutu-promise-communicate)) 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](https://www.mfah.org/exhibitions/wangechi-mutu-the-end-of-carrying-all-exhibition)) 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** 2027 Group Exhibition, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (forthcoming) 2026-2027 "Infinite Expansions," Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada 2026 "Generative Disruption: Feminist Art from the Collection," Ruby City, San Antonio, Texas "Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA “61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia: In Minor Keys," Curated by Koyo Kouoh, Arsenale di Venezia Campo de la Tana, Venice, Italy “Into the Time Horizon,” Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV "Iter Subterraneum," Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway "New Humans, Memories of the Future," The New Museum, New York, NY 2025 "40 Years," Victoria Miro, London, UK "See it Now: Contemporary Art from the Ann and Mel Schaffer Collection," Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY "Diary of Flowers: Artists and their Worlds," MOCA, Los Angeles, CA "Daphne's Wardrobe," Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge, CA 2024 "Spirit in the Land," Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL. Traveling to:The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksoville, FL 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 2024 "The Infinite Woman," Fondation Carmignac, Île de Porquerolles, France "Cut Up/Cut Out: Photomontage and Collage," Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL 2024-2025 "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: Artists Reframe the Black Figure," 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](https://www.centrepompidou-metz.fr/en/programme/exposition/a-gateway-to-possible-worlds)) "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](https://massmoca.org/event/suffering-from-realness/)) 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](http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/exhibition/)) 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 **Selected Talks, Lectures and Panels** 2024 Artist Lecture, The New Museum to New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), New Orleans "Lunchtime Art Talk on Wangechi Mutu" lead by curatorial assistant Jennifer Buonocore Nedrelow, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 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 Winter/Miller Lecture: Wangechi Mutu, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY The Bakwin Lecture: Wangechi Mutu, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MS 2019 An Evening with Artist Wangechi Mutu, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY The Bakwin Lecture: Wangechi Mutu, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA MATTER Lecture: Wangechi Mutu, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2018 Artist Lecture, In Conversation with Anne Palopoli, MAXXI, Rome, Italy Artist Lecture, In Conversation with Adrienne Edwards, Brown University, Providence, PN Artist Lecture, Columbia University, New York, NY Artist Talk, In Conversation with Okwui Okpokwasili, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA Artist Talk, In Conversation with Heather Pesanti and Kanitra Fletcher, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX 2017 Artist Lecture, Georgetown University, Washington DC Artist Talk, In Conversation with Adrienne Edwards, Performa17, New York, NY Artist Lecture, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO Artist Lecture, In Conversation with Adrienne Edwards, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PN 2016 Artist Lecture, Washington University, St. Louis, MI Artist Lecture, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR Symposium, In Conversation with with Juie Mehretu, Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa University, Gebre Kristos Desta Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 2015 Artist Lecture, ASAP 7 Conference Clemson University, Greenville, SC Artist Lecture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Artist Lecture, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA Artist Talk: "Wangechi Mutu, Art & Politics" Artist Lecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT Artist Lecture, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA Artist Talk: “Myths, Theories, Truths, Lies," William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society, New York, NY Artist Lecture, "The End of Carrying All," Keynote Speech, Art Therapy Department, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 2014 Artist Lecture, Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts, Cape Town, South Africa Artist Talk, Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Zoe Whitley, Tate Modern, London, UK Artist Talk, Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Huey Copeland, Chicago, IL Artist Talk, “ÀSÌKÒ: A History of Contemporary Art in Senegal in 5 weeks," Dak’Art 11th Biennale, Dakar, Senegal Artist Talk with Trevor Schoonmaker, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL Artist Talk, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Panelist, CinemAfrica Film Festival, with Zina Saro-Wiwa and Frances Bodomo, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Director’s Q&A: Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT ArtistTalk, Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Courtney J. Martin, Arttable/ Artnet, New York, NY 2013 Artist Talk, Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Nora Chipaumire, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Artist Talk, Wangechi Mutu in Conversation with Rachel Kent, MCA, Sydney, Australia Visiting Artist, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR Artist Lecture and visiting artist, Phillips Collection and George Washington University, Washington DC Artist Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Artist Lecture, Columbia University, New York, NY Visiting Artist, Yale University, New Haven, CT Artist Talk, with Trevor Schoonmaker, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC 2012 Artist Talk, “Common Ground: Artistic and Intellectual Communities," Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ Commencement Speech: Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT Artist Lecture, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Artist Lecture, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD Program Participant, The Artist’s Voice: Ishamel Houston-Jones, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY 2011 Artist Lecture, Penn State University, Happy Valley, PA Artist Lecture, Tyler University, Happy Valley, PA Artist Lecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Artist Lecture and Residency, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass Village, CO Juror, Alliance for Young Artists & Writers’ Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, New York, NY Juror, Dreamyard Student Art Awards, Bronx, NY Zabar Visiting Artist, Hunter College, New York, NY Artist Lecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Artist Lecture, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY 2010 Artist Talk, Wangechi Mutu and Marilyn Minter in Conversation with Richard Flood, New Museum, New York, NY Artist Lecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Artist Lecture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Artist Lecture, Urban Arts Partnership, New York, NY 2009 Artist Lecture, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY Artist Lecture, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Artist Lecture, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX Artist Lecture, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY Artist Lecture, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI Artist Lecture, 92nd Street Y, New York 2008 Artist Lecture, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY Panelist, The Cooper Union School of Art, “Prospect.1: A Biennial For New Orleans," New York, NY Panelist, Art Chicago - Speaks Patronage and Contemporary Art, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL Artist Lecture, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA Artist Lecture, Eastern Illinois University, Champaign, IL Artist Lecture, UCLA-Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Artist Lecture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Artist Lecture, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY Artist Talk, Yale, New Haven, CT Artist Talk, The Hirshorn Museum and Garden, Washington DC Artist Talk, New Museum, “Collage: The Unmonumental Picture," New York, NY 2007 Artist Lecture, Tyler School of Art, "Critical Dialogues Lecture," Elkins Park, PA Artist Lecture, “Here and Now," New York University, New York, NY Artist Lecture, Williams College, Williamstown, MA Artist Lecture, "Cinderella Curse," Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA Visiting Artist, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN Artist Lecture, Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY Artist Lecture, The Visual Arts at Yale, Yale, New Haven, CT Artist Lecture, “MoMA Gallery Talks," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Artist Lecture, New York University. The Steindhardt School of Art, New York, NY Studio Lecture, Independent Curators International, Brooklyn, NY Panelist, “Feminist Future” Symposium, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 2006 Artist Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Artist Lecture, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA Panelist, “Multiple Modernities,” Columbia University, New York, NY Artist Lecture, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA Group presentation for Guggenheim, “Exhuming Gluttony,” Salon 94, New York, NY Panelist, Site Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM 2005 Artist Lecture, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington DC Studio Lecture, Miami Art Museum, New York, NY Artist Lecture, “Amazing Grace,” Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL Artist Lecture, The Society for Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Artist Lecture, “Fight for Flight,” Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY 2004 Artist Lecture, Altoids Art House, Austin, TX Artist Lecture, “Looking Both Ways,” Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA Artist Lecture, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA 2003 Panelist, “Looking Both Ways,” The Museum of African Art, Long Island City, NY Artist Lecture, TICA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL “Contemporary African Artists,” Moderated by Chester Higgins, Langston Hughes Library, Queens, NY Artist Lecture, “Creatures,” Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Queens, NY 2002 Artist Lecture, Bennington University, Bennington, VT Critique of MFA Work, Union Institute and University at Vermont College, Montpelier, VT “The Artist Voice: Fatimah Tuggar and Wangechi Mutu,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY “New York City Museum Educators Roundtable Annual Conference,” Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY **Bibliography** 2026 Vartanian, Hrag. 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"Met Museum Acquires Two Sculptures by Wangechi Mutu," The New York Times, July 28 ([Link](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/arts/design/met-museum-wangechi-mutu.html)) Durón, Maximiliano. "2020 Prospect New Orleans Triennial to Consider America’s ‘Unprecedented’ Political Moment," ArtNews, March 2 ([Link](https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/prospect-new-orleans-2020-artist-list-1202679724/)) Suarez, Cyndi. "The Liberatory Force of the Imagination," Non Profit Quarterly, January 17 ([Link](https://nonprofitquarterly.org/the-liberatory-force-of-the-imagination/)) Baer, Ulrich. "Kehinde Wiley, Wangechi Mutu, and Kara Walker Upstage the Monuments Debate," Hyperallergic, January 15 ([Link](https://hyperallergic.com/536619/kehinde-wiley-wangechi-mutu-and-kara-walker-upstage-the-monuments-debate/)) 2019 Quinn, Annalisa. 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"‘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](https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/wangechi-mutu-metropolitan-museum-facade-1662937)) Trujillo, Maria. "Liberating art history: Wangechi Mutu takes over the Metropolitan’s empty niches," ArtCritique, October 1 ([Link](https://www.art-critique.com/en/2019/10/liberating-art-history-wangechi-mutu-takes-over-the-metropolitans-empty-niches/)) 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](http://www.artnews.com/2019/09/19/toni-morrison-2019-whitney-biennial/)) Valentine, Victoria L. "2019 Whitney Biennial: The Museum as a Site of Protest," CultureType, September 22 ([Link](https://www.culturetype.com/2019/09/22/2019-whitney-biennial-the-museum-as-a-site-of-protest/)) Morris, Kadish. 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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](http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/23/4131325/fantastic-journey.html#)) 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](http://www.artnet.com/insights/art-market-trends/interview-with-artist-wangechi-mutu.asp)) Hansen-Bundy, Benjy, "A Fantastic Journey Into the Mind of Collage Artist Wangechi Mutu," Mother Jones, October 12 ([Link](http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/10/interview-collage-artist-wangechi-mutu-fantastic-journey)) Moon, Grace, "Wangechi Mutu's Fantastical Journey, Dripped, Dipped and Left to Bled," Velvet Park, October 16 ([Link](http://www.velvetparkmedia.com/blogs/wangechi-mutus-fantastical-journey-dripped-dipped-and-left-bled)) Cotter, Holland, "A Window, Not a Mirror: A Survey of Wangechi Mutu at Brooklyn Museum," The New York Times, October 11 ([Link](http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/11/arts/design/a-survey-of-wangechi-mutu-at-brooklyn-museum.html)) Cooper, Ashton, "Wangechi Mutu's First New York Survey Opens at the Brooklyn Museum," ArtInfo, October 11 ([Link](http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2013/10/10/wangechi-mutus-first-new-york-survey-opens-at-the-brooklyn-museum/)) Giancana, Norell, "Wangechi Mutu's Fantastic Journey Opens at the Brooklyn Museum," BET online, October 11 ([Link](http://www.bet.com/news/lifestyle/2013/10/11/wangechi-mutu-s-fantastic-journey-opens-at-brooklyn-museum.html)) Karefa-Johnson, Gabriella, "Wangechi Mutu's 'Fantastic Journey' Opens at the Brooklyn Museum," Vogue.com, October 11 ([Link](http://www.vogue.com/culture/article/wangechi-mutu-at-the-brooklyn-musuem/#1)) Pearson, Erica, "Celebrated around the world, Kenyan-born Brooklyn resident Wangechi Mutu gets Brooklyn Museum retrospective," New York Daily News, October 6 ([Link](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music-arts/brooklyn-artist-wangechi-mutu-finally-hometown-show-article-1.1477845)) Wolff, Rachel, Shell Probably Cut Up This Magazine Too, New York Magazine, August 25 ([Link](http://nymag.com/guides/fallpreview/2013/wangechi-mutu-2013-9/)) Meier, Allison, The Grotesque Beauty of Wangechi Mutu, Hyperallergic, August 5 ([Link](http://hyperallergic.com/77092/the-grotesque-beauty-of-wangechi-mutu/)) 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](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-art-review-wangechi-mutu-susanne-vielmetter-20121127,0,6553647.story)) 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. 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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 **Catalogues** 2026 Apsara DiQuinzio, Makeda Best, William L. Fox, Maia Nuku, Maya Lin. "Into the Time Horizon," Radius Books Co-published with the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV. 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 Dusseldorf, 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** 2026 National Gallery Contemporary Fellowship, In Partnership with Artfund and Whitworth, The University of Manchester 2019 Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Inaugural Façade Commission, New York, NY 2018 Honoree African Art Awards Dinner, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC 2017 Artist Honoree, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Gala, Washington DC 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 Brooklyn Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY 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 Tate Modern, London, UK Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY