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Selected Works

Wangechi Mutu “I am Speaking, Can you hear me?,” 2020
Wangechi Mutu
“I am Speaking, Can you hear me?,” 2020
Wangechi Mutu “Metastasis III and Metastasis IV,” 2016
Wangechi Mutu
“Metastasis III and Metastasis IV,” 2016
This image depicts an artwork by Wangechi Mutu titled "The End of carrying All." This artwork was created in 2015 and measures TRT: 10 mins 45 sec (looped). Its medium is 3 Channel Animated Video (color, sound).
Wangechi Mutu
"The End of carrying All", 2015
Wangechi Mutu “The birth of a mud queen,” 2012
Wangechi Mutu
“The birth of a mud queen,” 2012
Wangechi Mutu “Sit squat siamese,” 2012
Wangechi Mutu
“Sit squat siamese,” 2012
Wangechi Mutu “Lion chase duo,” 2012
Wangechi Mutu
“Lion chase duo,” 2012
Wangechi Mutu “Scene twice,” 2012
Wangechi Mutu
“Scene twice,” 2012
Wangechi Mutu, She seas dance, 2012, Iridescent, white and gold PVC, Louver styrene, 3 channel projections, 177, Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
Wangechi Mutu
"She seas dance," 2012
Wangechi Mutu, She seas dance, 2012, Iridescent, white and gold PVC, Louver styrene, 3 channel projections, 177, Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer
Wangechi Mutu
She seas dance, 2012
Wangechi Mutu “The Storm,” 2012
Wangechi Mutu
“The Storm,” 2012
Wangechi Mutu “All the way up, all the way out,” 2012
Wangechi Mutu
“All the way up, all the way out,” 2012
Wangechi Mutu “Chin rest with cut-eye,” 2012
Wangechi Mutu
“Chin rest with cut-eye,” 2012
Wangechi Mutu “Pretty Double-Head,” 2010
Wangechi Mutu
“Pretty Double-Head,” 2010
Wangechi Mutu “Fallen Heads,” 2010
Wangechi Mutu
“Fallen Heads,” 2010
Wangechi Mutu “The Bride Who Married a Camel's Head,” 2009
Wangechi Mutu
“The Bride Who Married a Camel's Head,” 2009
Wangechi Mutu “Queen of messes,” 2012
Wangechi Mutu
“Queen of messes,” 2012
Wangechi Mutu “This you call Civilization?,” 2008
Wangechi Mutu
“This you call Civilization?,” 2008
Wangechi Mutu “Untitled,” 2002
Wangechi Mutu
“Untitled,” 2002
Wangechi Mutu “Bird Flew,” 2008
Wangechi Mutu
“Bird Flew,” 2008
Wangechi Mutu “Blue Eyes,” 2008
Wangechi Mutu
“Blue Eyes,” 2008
Wangechi Mutu “You pretty, no you pretty,” 2008
Wangechi Mutu
“You pretty, no you pretty,” 2008
Wangechi Mutu “A bend in her river,” 2008
Wangechi Mutu
“A bend in her river,” 2008
Wangechi Mutu “Chorus line,” 2008
Wangechi Mutu
“Chorus line,” 2008
Wangechi Mutu “The evolution of mud mama from beginning to start,” 2008
Wangechi Mutu
“The evolution of mud mama from beginning to start,” 2008
Wangechi Mutu “Lizard Love,” 2006
Wangechi Mutu
“Lizard Love,” 2006
Wangechi Mutu “The Naughty Fruits of My Evil Labor,” 2005
Wangechi Mutu
“The Naughty Fruits of My Evil Labor,” 2005
Wangechi Mutu “I Put a Spell on You,” 2005
Wangechi Mutu
“I Put a Spell on You,” 2005
Wangechi Mutu “Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies,” 2005
Wangechi Mutu
“Misguided Little Unforgivable Hierarchies,” 2005
Wangechi Mutu “Royal Blue Arachnid Curse,” 2005
Wangechi Mutu
“Royal Blue Arachnid Curse,” 2005
Wangechi Mutu “She's Egungun Again,” 2005
Wangechi Mutu
“She's Egungun Again,” 2005
Wangechi Mutu “Untitled,” 2004
Wangechi Mutu
“Untitled,” 2004
Wangechi Mutu “Untitled,” 2004
Wangechi Mutu
“Untitled,” 2004
Wangechi Mutu “Untitled (classic profiles series),” 2003
Wangechi Mutu
“Untitled (classic profiles series),” 2003
Wangechi Mutu “All Rosey,” 2003
Wangechi Mutu
“All Rosey,” 2003
Wangechi Mutu “the witch-hunt,” 2003
Wangechi Mutu
“the witch-hunt,” 2003
Wangechi Mutu “I have peg leg nightmares,” 2003
Wangechi Mutu
“I have peg leg nightmares,” 2003
Wangechi Mutu “Intertwined,” 2002
Wangechi Mutu
“Intertwined,” 2002

Exhibitions

1972
Born in Nairobi, Kenya
Lives and works in New York and Nairobi
2000
MFA Sculpture, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1996
BFA, Cooper Union for the Advancement of the Arts and Science, NY
1991
IB, United World College of the Atlantic, Wales, UK

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

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

Film/TV/Radio

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

Interviews

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

Catalogues

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

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2013
Open Now! Go See: Wangechi Mutus Wild World @ the Brooklyn Museum, Dog Star, December 29
Bhatia, Pooja, African Beauty, Now, OZY, December 12
Kelley, Kevin J., Mutus art pieces deck the walls of Brooklyn Museum, Daily Nation, December 8
Nsehe, Mfonobong, The 20 Young Power Women In Africa 2013, Forbes, December 4
Wolff, Rachel, The New Collage, ARTnews, December
Budick, Ariella, Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey, Brooklyn Museum, New York review, Financial Times, November 26
Byrne, Brendan C., Cyborg Humanism: Wangechi Mutu at Brooklyn Museum, Rhizome.org, November 15
Agustsson, Sola, Wangechi Mutus Fantastic Journey at The Brooklyn Museum, Whitewall, November 13
Kaitano, Chiwoniso, The Afrofuturism of Wangechi Mutu, The Guardian, November 13
Rosenberg, Karen, The Future Is African, The New York Times, November 8
Mutu, Wangechi, The Women, Art in America, November
The Lookout: Wangechi Mutu at the Brooklyn Museum, Art in America online, October 31
Plagens, Peter, Passion and Talent in Large Doses: Exhibitions of Wangechi Mutu, Thomas Eggerer, and Karl Wirsum, The Wall Street Journal, October 26
The Reckoning : Women Artist Of The New Millenium Prestel Publishing, Pp.55-58
The Age Of Collage: Contemporary Collage In Modern Art, Gestalten Publishing Pp. 15-17
Barsh, Joanna, Wangechi Lives Into Her Strengths Centered Leadership, Pp.55-59 Centered Leadership
Russell, Heather, "Interview with Artist Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey," artnet, October 18 (Link)
Hansen-Bundy, Benjy, "A Fantastic Journey Into the Mind of Collage Artist Wangechi Mutu," Mother Jones, October 12 (Link)
Moon, Grace, "Wangechi Mutu's Fantastical Journey, Dripped, Dipped and Left to Bled," Velvet Park, October 16 (Link)
Cotter, Holland, "A Window, Not a Mirror: A Survey of Wangechi Mutu at Brooklyn Museum," The New York Times, October 11 (Link)
Cooper, Ashton, "Wangechi Mutu's First New York Survey Opens at the Brooklyn Museum," ArtInfo, October 11 (Link)
Giancana, Norell, "Wangechi Mutu's Fantastic Journey Opens at the Brooklyn Museum," BET online, October 11 (Link)
Karefa-Johnson, Gabriella, "Wangechi Mutu's 'Fantastic Journey' Opens at the Brooklyn Museum," Vogue.com, October 11 (Link)
Pearson, Erica, "Celebrated around the world, Kenyan-born Brooklyn resident Wangechi Mutu gets Brooklyn Museum retrospective," New York Daily News, October 6 (Link)
Wolff, Rachel, Shell Probably Cut Up This Magazine Too, New York Magazine, August 25 (Link)
Meier, Allison, The Grotesque Beauty of Wangechi Mutu, Hyperallergic, August 5 (Link)
Lee, Denise, " 'Migrating Identities' showcases multicultural artists, examines cultural rifts," The Daily Californian, July 11
Papenburg Ph.D, Bettina, "Carnal Aesthetics: Transgressive Imagery and Feminist Politics," IB Taurus, London, UK
Forrest, Nicholas, "Wangechi Mutu's Diverse Work at Sydney's MCA," ArtInfo, July 8
Bierach, Barbara, Schock und Schnheit, Kunstmarkt, July 5, 6, 7
Wolf, Rachel, 50 Under 50: The Next Most Collectable Artists, Art + Auction, June
Greenberg, Blue, Mutus Woman both Gorgeous and Monstrous, The Herald Sun, April 5
Menconi, David, Wangechi Mutu takes Nasher on A Fantastic Journey, newsobserver.com, March 23
Anderson-Barranger, Hannah, Artist Mutu Premieres Show at Nasher, The Duke Chronicle, March 21
Vitiello, Chris, Horror, Beauty, and Transcendence, (print title), In Her First Major U.S. Exhibition, Wangechi Mutu Thinks Big, (on-line title), Indy Week, March 20
Bellamy, Cliff, Nasher to open touring exhibit of multi-media artist Wangechi Mutu, The Herald Sun, March 18
Buck, Louisa, Feature Artist Interview: Mutable Montage, The Art Newspaper, Number 244, March
Haskell, Angela, Artist Mutu's work opens at Drexel, The Philadelphia Tribune, February 27
Gandy, Mira, A Conversation with Kenyan Artist Wangechi Mutu on Art, Power and Returning Home, New York Beacon, February 21-27
Schad, Ed, Wangechi Mutu at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Art Review, January/February
Arceneaux, Edgar, Wangechi Mutu and Her Post Human Kenyan Mutants, KCET Artbound, January 9
Lax, Thomas J, Preview: Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey at the Nasher Museum of Art, Artforum, January
Bodies Bright and Greater: Mixed Media Collages by Wangechi Mutu, Harpers Magazine, January
2012
Mohseni, Yasmine, 5 L.A. Gallery Shows You Should Go See Right Now, ArtInfo, December 20
From struggling student to international art guru, The Daily Nation Kenya, December 8
Pagel, David, "Past, present collide in Wangechi Mutu's 'Nitarudi Ninarudi'", The Los Angeles Times, November 29 (Link)
Yablonsky, Linda, "Women In Art 2012: Wangechi Mutu", Elle Magazine, December
Richardson, Jared, "Attack of the Boogeywoman: Visualizing Black Women's Grotesquerie in Afrofuturism", Art Papers, November/December
Fiduccia, Joanna, Heavy Painting, Spike Quarterly, Issue 33, Autumn
Bynoe, Holly, "Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Glassell School of Art presents There is no archive in which nothing gets lost", ARC Magazine, September 1
The Subjective Object, GRASSI Museum fr Vlkerkunde zu Leipzig, K. Verlag Press, August
This Undreamt Descent: Wangechi Mutu in the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Deutsche Bank, July 13
Bidouzo-Coudray, Joyce, Wangechi Mutu The Catatonic Bliss of Violent Incidences, Another Africa, June 12
Rankin, Kelly. 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month, The University of Toronto News, February 6
Pohl, John. The Beauty of Body Language, Montreal Gazette, February 4
Salehi, Ashkan. 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month, The Strand, February 2
Schechter, Fran, For 28 Days Only: Top Artists Fuel Black History Show, Now Toronto, February 1
Arbus, Miriam, Artists Rethink Black History Month in 28 Days, The Newspaper: University of Toronto's Independent Weekly, January 26
Goldberg, RoseLee, Shirin Neshat and Wangechi Mutu, Flash Art 282, January
2011
Elliot, Bobby, The Bearden Project: A Family Affair, The Huffington Post, December 7
Saro-Wiwa, Zina, Interview with Wangechi Mutu, Kilimanjaro Magazine, Autumn/Winter
Hampton, Dream, It Was All a Dream, Life + Times, September 19
Kunitz, Daniel, Wangechi Mutu, Modern Painters, September
Cotter, Holland, Under Threat: The Shock of the Old, New York Times, April 17
Spence, Rachel, The Power of Instinct, The Financial Times, April 15
Herndon, Lara Kristin, Wangechi Mutu, ArtPapers, March/April
Hirsch, Faye, Sharon Stone In Abuja, Art in America, March
Jones, Kellie, EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art, Duke University Press
Enwezor, Okwui, Cut & Paste: Interview with Wangechi Mutu, Arise Magazine, Issue 11
Wainaina, Binyavanga, One Day I Will Write About This Place, Minneapolis, MN: Gray Wolf Press, Cover image
Tate, Greg and LaTasha Diggs, Coon Bidness: The Critical Ass Issue, pp. 22-23, 82
2010
Kantilal Patel, Alpesh, Wangechi Mutu, Gladstone Gallery, ArtForum Critics Pick, November 17
Stern, Melissa, Hunt, Bury, Flee: Drawings By Wangechi Mutu, CityArts, Nov. 20
Wehr, Anne, Wangechi Mutu, Hunt Bury Flee, Time Out New York, November 18-24
Rosenberg, Karen, Wangechi Mutu, Hunt, Bury and Flee, The New York Times, November 12
Yablonsky, Linda, Artifacts | Moths and Mercenaries, T Magazine, November 4
Rohr-Bongard, Schreckensschoene Schnippelei, Manager Magazin, August
This You Call Civilization? Art Gallery of Ontario, The Art Street Journal, August
Smith, Roberta, Art? Life? Must We Choose? New York Times, July 2
Hove, Jan Van, Droombeelden Uit Afrika, De Standard, July
Nutt, Harry, Mischwesen, Frankfurter Rundschau, June 1
Clarke, Bill, Wangechi Mutu: Art Gallery of Ontario, Modern Painters, Summer Woeller, Marcus, Sex und Gewalt (Vorsicht, Falle!), TAZ, May 12
Arts and Culture: Wangechi Mutu, BBC World News Service, May 7
Cash, Stephanie, Wangechi Mutu: Terrible Beauty, Art in America, May
Bodin, Claudia, Monstrse Brute und Zwitter, Art: Das Kunstmagazin, May
Kuhn, Nicola, Gefhrlich schne Gttinnen, Der Tagesspiegel, April 29
Nys Dambrot, Shana, Daily Dose Pick, Flavorwire, April 28
Karcher, Eva, Wangechi Mutu, Vogue.de, April 28
Dembo, Wendy, My Dirty Little Heaven, coolhunting.com, April 28
“Prospect.1 New Orleans Shows Public Art as a Form of Civic Engagement, artdaily.org, April 12
Reed, Aimee, Interview with Wangechi Mutu, Daily Serving, April 12
Rylance, David, Bold New Bodies for a Brave New World: David Altmejds The Index and Wangechi Mutus This you call civilization?, Transductions, April 4
Wiensowski, Ingeborg, Grausamer Glamour: Schoen und erschreckend wirken die Collagen von
Wangechi Mutu. Erstmals sind sie in Berlin zu sehen, Kultur Spiegel, April
Evans, Matthew, We Categorize What Were Afraid Of, Deutsche Guggenheim Magazine, Issue 11, Spring
Sandals, Leah, Questions and Artists: Wangechi Mutus Beauty Riff Collages, National Post, February 25
The Short List, Portland Tribune, February 25
Goldstein, Andrew, Wangechi Mutu Wins Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year Award, Art Info, February 23
Row, D.K., Beauty Amid the Upheaval, The Oregonian, February 22
Crow, Kelly, Wangechi Mutu is Deutsche Banks Artist of the Year 2010, Wall Street Journal, February 22
Milroy, Sarah, Amid the Games, Artists Dissect the Body, The Globe and Mail, February 19
Laurence, Robin, Shows Dissect the Body and Human Fears, The Georgia Straight, February 11-18
Griffin, Kevin, Visceral Bodies Shows Off Our Fleshy Architecture, The Vancouver Sun, February 15
Family Skeletons on Display, The Globe and Mail, February 8
Ampofo, Akosua Adomako, and Signe Arnfred, African Feminist Politics of Knowledge, Sweden: The Nordic Africa Institute, Cover image
Artpace Alumi Update, Artpace 10.1, San Antonio, TX
Barson, Tanya, and Peter Gorschlter, Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic, London: Tate Publishing, Cover image
Evans, Matthew, Wangechi Mutu: Between Beauty and Horror, ArtMag Issue 57
Face to Face, Vogue Italia May Issue 717, p. 24
Taguchi Art Collection, New Global Art. Japan: Kentaro Oshita
Han, Heng-Gil, Network and Fluid, pp. 85, 117
Patton, Sharon, Close Up: Enwezor, The International Review of African American Art
Present, Frankfurt, Germany: Deusche Bank Artworks
Spotlight: Artist of the Year 2010: Wangechi Mutu, ArtNews
2009
Smith, Roberta, Dress Codes: Beyond a Simple Fashion Statement, New York Times, October 8
Cotter, Holland, The Week Ahead: April 26 - May 2, New York Times, April 24
Sweeney, Eve, A Fertile Mind, Vogue, pp. 190, 248, April, Photographed by Annie Leibovitz
Bernoni, Giorgia, Un Corpo Mutante e Ambiguo, Inside Art (Italy), March
Mirov, Ben, ART: Pretty Ugly: Wangechi Mutu, A Shady Promise, Brooklyn Rail, February
Wei, Lilly, New Orleans Report: Deliverance: The Biennial, Art In America, February
Halpern, Ashlea, Out of Africa, TimeOut New York, pg 41 Issue 694 January 15-2
Ligon, Glenn, Civic Engagement: To Miss New Orleans, Art Forum, January
Stern, Steven, Looking Back: Prospect.1 New Orleans, Frieze, Issue 120, January
2008
Mueller, Kurt, Houston: Damaged Romanticism at the Blaffer Gallery, Art Lies, No. 60, Winter
Gawlik, Goschka, Horror Beauties mit Zerschnittenen Seelen, Art Magazine, November 19
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, ARTnews, Los Angeles: Wangechi Mutu, pg 176 Vol 107/Number 10, Novermber
Studio, Studio Magazine, Museum of Harlem, Upcoming Exhibitions, pg 13, Fall/Winter
Austin, Tom, Dollar Signs, Moral Symbols: A MAM Exhibition Incites Plenty of Value Judgments, The Miami Herald, December 7
Finch, Charlie, Lighter than Eros, Artnet, November 12
Ellwood, Mark, Our Man In: New Orleans, GQ Magazine, November 7
Robinson, Walter, Bleeding-Heart Biennale, Art Net Magazine, November 7
Britt, Douglas, Blaffer Exhibit Finds Beauty in the Bleak, The Houston Chronicle, November 5
Dewan, Shaila, New Orleans Rising, by Hammer and Art, New York Times, October 29
Browne, Alix, Cuff Love, New York Times, October 3
Watson, Simon, Wangechi Mutu: Mass in the Time of War, Whitewall, Spring
Pagel, Daniel, Boldly Linking all the Pieces: Wangechi Mutu at Vielmetter, Los Angeles Times, April 11
Miles, Christopher, Art Around Town, Los Angeles Weekly, April 10
Dembo, Wendy, Wangechi Mutu, Cool Hunting, April 7
Garcia, Kathryn, Culver City, Opening Night, For Your Art, April 2
Continuing and Recommended, ArtScene, April
Heartney, Eleanor, Make It New, Art in America, April
Wangechi Mutu: Little Touched, Beautiful Decay.com, April 1
Catherine Wagley, Destroying Prettiness: Wangechi Mutu and Kara Walker, Daily Serving, March 31
Goldman, Edward, ArtTalk: Art, Sex, and Videotape, KCRW, March 18
Shaw, Alex, More Flavor: Lecture, Wangechi Mutu, Flavorpill, March 13
Turner, Elisa, Wilfredo Lam Meets Miami, Art Circuits: Miami Visual Art Guide, Spring
Enright, Robert, Resonant Surgeries: The Collaged World of Wangechi Mutu, Border Crossings Magazine, Issue No. 105, February
Yablonsky, Linda, Poll Positions, Artforum.com, February 6
Feature: Paper Cuts, Artkrush, Issue 77, February 6
Martin, Courtney J., Pick: Wangechu Mutu at Victoia Miro Gallery, London, Artforum, January 18
Martin, Courtney J., Wangechi Mutu: Yo.n.l, Artkrush, Issue 75, January 9
Cox, Lorraine Morales, Transformed Bodies, Colonial Wounds & Ethnographic Tropes: Wangechi Mutu in 2008
Violence, N. Paradoxa International Feminist Art Journal, Ed. Katy Deepwell, Volume 21
2007
Volzke, Daniel, Ab dem 22. November: Wangechi Mutu zeigt opulente Collagen in London, Monopol, December
Steinberg, Claudia, Aufbruchstimmung an der Lower East Side, Kunstzitung, December
Macmillan, Kyle, Exhibit shows a world of fine artists, Denver Post, November 1
Eshun, Ekow, The Art of Darkness, Vogue, November
Row, DK, In praise of bolder women, The Oregonian, October 29
Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, The Big Bend Sentinel, September 20
Mullins, Charlotte, Painting People, Figure Painting Today, pg 110
Voelz Chandler, Mary, Inside the Box: New Museum building squares up space for art, education, community, Rocky Mountain News, August 23
Dimling Cochran, Rebecca, Pick: Wangechi Mutu at ACA Gallery, Atlanta, Artforum, June 7
Heartney, Eleanor, Worldwide Women, Art in America, June/July
Aldarondo, Cecilia, Ghada Amer + Wangechi Mutu, Art Papers, May/June
Kruger, Barbara, Wangechi Mutu, Interview Magazine, April
Nolan, Joe, Wangechi Mutu: Sleeping Heads Lie, Number Independent Arts Journal, No 58, Spring
Koenig, Wendy, Wangechi Mutu: Memphis, Art Papers, March/April
Abbie, Mary, Feminism Revisited: Art by two African-born women revitalizes feminist issues in a handsome Franklin Art Show, Star Tribune, March
Brooks, Amra, Fair Report: Art LA, artinfo, February 10
Cotter, Holland, Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage, The New York Times, January 29
Ellis, Patricia, Catching up with Charles (Saatchi), FlashArt, January/February
Oguibe, Olu, Looking Back: the most significant shows of 2006, frieze, January, issue 104
Spaulding, David, New York, Interrupted, Artforum, January
2006
Mullins, Charlotte, Painting People: the state of the art, Thames and Hudson, London
Cameron, Dan, New York, Interrupted, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
Jongbloed, Marjorie, Entangled: Approaching Contemporary African Artists, Marjorie Jongbloed and VolkswagenStiftung, Hannover
Wangechi Mutu- The Art Universe, Vanity Fair, December, pg 352
Koeppel, Fredric, Gorgeous surfaces in a nightmare of sensuality, corruption, violence, The Memphis Commercial Appeal, November 10
Maart, Brenton, Distant Relatives: Artists of the African Diaspora, Mail and Gardian, Western Cape South Africa, Vol. 22 #43, pg 2, Nov 3-9
New Prints Review, Art on Paper, November/December
Carver, Jon, Still Points of the Turning World, Art Papers, November/December, pg 69
Martin, Courtney, Site San Fe 6th International Biennial: Still Points of the Turning World, Contemporary, Issue 86, pg 64
Blumenstein, Ellen, L.A. Confidential, Monopol, November/December
Korotkin, Lindsay, Reviews, Tema Celeste, November/December, pg 78
Berkovitch, Ellen, SITE Santa Fes 6th International Biennial, artUS, November
Colpitt, Frances, A Slow-Motion Biennial, Art in America, October, pp 69-75
Murray, DC, Wangechi Mutu at SFMOMA, Art in America, October, pg 205
Wright, Karen, Saatchi Exhibits Totemic Art, Surrealist Penis, bloomberg.com, October 6
Muchnic, Suzanne, The Art Explosion, Los Angeles Times, October 1
Rimanelli, David, Scene & Herd: A Night at the Opera, Artforum.com, September 26
Blum, Kelly, and Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, ed. Art is Passion, Blanton Museum of Art: America Art Since 1900,
The Articulate, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
Auricchio, Laura, Wangechi Mutu, Art Papers, September/October
Murinik, Tracy, Afro-Alien Exquisite Corpses, Art South Africa, Spring, pp 26-29
Klopper, Sandra, Distant Relatives/Relative Distance, Art South Africa, Spring, pp 64-65
Black, Ezrha Jean, Labyrinths of SITE: Ottmann scales down numbers and theme, but stays big on art, artillery, vol 1 no 1, September
Vogel, Carol, Where Bel Canto Meets Paintbrush, New York Times, August 15
Morris, Tom, "Still Points of the Turning World", ArtReview, July, issue 1, p 37
Roberts, Angela, "Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism", ArtReview, July, issue 1, p 139
Walker, Hollis, "Colonial apparitions", Pasatiempo, July 7-13
Fischer, Zane, "Art Without Excuses", Santa Fe Reporter, July 5-11
Wangechi Mutu, The New Yorker, June 26
Wangechi Mutu, The New Yorker, June 12
Smith, Roberta, Wangechi Mutu: An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems, New York Times, June 9
Kazanjian, Dodie, Fierce Creatures, Vogue, June
Perryer, Sophie, Distant Relatives/Relative Distance (catalogue no.21), June
Berwick, Carly, Jungle-Punk Princesses Populate Wangechi Mutus Solo NYC Debut, Bloomberg.com, May 31
Wilson, Michael, House Red, Artforum.com Diary, May 25
Pollack, Barbara, Wangechi Mutu: An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems, Time Out New York, Issue 556, May 25-31
Miller, Paul, A Gathering of the Tribes #11, Time Out New York, Issue 556, pg 70, May 25-31
Taylor, Catharine P, Charles Saatchi messes with USA Today, adweek.blogs.com, May 12
Alberge, Dalva, Hang it allthey want to sneak Saatchis junk into our academy, The Times (UK), May 11
Lewis, Caroline, Saatchis USA Today at the Royal Academy of Arts London, 24hourmuseum.org, May 10
Reynolds, Nigel, Saatchi is ready for another sensation at the RA, The Daily Telegraph, April 5
Goodyear, Sarah, Wangechi Mutu: An Artist Comes into Her Own, Bklyn, Spring, page 20
Wangechi Mutu at SFMoma, ArtInfo.com, March
Mullins, Charlotte, Painting People, Thames & Hudson
Helfand, Glen, Voluptuous Horror Wangechi Mutu harnesses the power of violence and beauty,
San Francisco Bay Guardian.com,vol. 10 no. 14, January 4-10
Helfand, Glen, Wangechi Mutu, Artforum.com, January 3
Cotter, Holland, Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage, New York Times, January
1111 Journal of Literature and Art, Volume III
Thomas, Liz, Wangechi Mutu, The F-Word Zine, Number 2, page 2
For Committed Civic Engagement, The Cooper Union, pg 16
Oliveira, Filipa, Wangechi Mutu, Arte Contemporanea, pg 66
Schmidt, Jason, Artists: photographs by Jason Schmidt, pg 90
Cotter, Holland. ART; Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage, The New York Times, Section E, pg1, January
2005
Paul, Jonathan S., Places, Everyone, The New York Times Style Magazine, Winter
Oliveira, Filipa, Wangechi Mutu, W-Art Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue no. 8, pages 66-69
Future Greats 2005, ArtReview, Volume IX, December, page 99
Fricke, Kirsten, Sex Sells, Beautiful Decay, December
Smith, Roberta, Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist, The New York Times, November 18
Egon Schiele: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections, Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, New York, (catalog illustration, page 388)
Adjaye, David, Top Ten, Artforum, November
Trellis, Emma, Mutable Mutu, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, October
Weinberg, Michelle, Out of Africa: Female Forms that Tell a Tale of Torture, Miami New Times, Sept. 15
Turner, Elisa, Going Solo: Wangechi Mutu Finds Inspiration In Her Native Africa, The Miami Herald, Sept.11
Hatcher, David, Poco a Go-Go, X-tra, Volume 8, Number 1, Fall Issue
Arty Hour, The Herald, August 12
Luis, Carlos M., Wangechi Mutu y su Amazing Grace, Artes & Letras, August 7
Amazing Grace, Miami Monthly, August
Fricke, Kirsten, Wangechi Mutu, Beautiful/Decay, Issue L, August
Ellis, Patricia, Wangechi Mutu - The Triumph of Painting, The Saatchi Gallery essay
Bravo, Gabriel C., Wangechi Mutu Art Exhibit, MiamiPoetryReview.com, July 22
Suarez de Jesus, Carlos, Mutus Mojo, The Miami New Times, July 21
Amazing Grace: First Solo Show for Kenyan-born Artist, Coral Gables Gazette, July 21
Sheets, Hilarie M., Using Art to Build Pride, The New York Times, June 1
Kapferer, Roland, Africa Remix, Frieze, June/July/August Issue 92, page 156
Heartney, Eleanor, Return to the Real, Art in America, June/July, pages 85-89
Korotkin, Joyce B., Fight or Flight, Tema Celeste, May/June, pages 76-77
de La Forterie, Maud, Africa Remix Continental, Art Actuel, Issue #38, May/June, pages 47-50
Post-Black, Post-Soul, or Hip-Hop Iconography: Defining the new Aesthetics, The International
Review of African American Art, Volume 20 #2
Lo, Melissa, Wangechi Mutu, Flash Art, May/June Issue, Vol. XXXVIII, NO. 242, page 146
Chevalier, Jari, Greater New York Show at P.S.1, The New York Art World.com, April
Brielmaier, Isolde, Wangechi Mutu: Re-Imagining The World, Parkett, No. 74, pp. 6-13
Where to buy - Wangechi Mutu, The Week, March 25
Andersson, Ruben, Mixed Bag of African avant-garde, The London Globe, March 20
Rosenberg, Karen, Artists on the Verge of a Breakthrough, New York Magazine, March 3
Continued and Recommended, ArtScene, Vol.24, no.7, March
Painted Ladies, SouthBank, March
Myers, Holly, Artists at play in the world, Los Angeles Times, February 25
Brownell, Ginanne, "Front and Center: In London, it's the year of African art", Newsweek, www.msnbc.com, February 17
Harrison, Sara, Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Art Monthly, February
Pollack, Barbara, Panic Room, Time Out New York, January 13-19, pages 55-56
Biro, Matthew, "Reviews - Midwest", Art Papers, pg. 51, January/February Issue
2004
Graham-Dixon, Andrew, All stuck and scribbled, The Sunday Telegraph, December 19, page 112
Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, BBC News UK edition, December 13
Cripps, Charlotte, Work at the cutting edge, The Independent Review, December 2, page 18
A-Z London, The Art Newspaper, No.153, December
Ciuraru, Carmela, Cutting Remarks, Cover Page and Feature, ArtNews, November
Leitzes, Cary Estes, Body Politic, and Kunitz, Daniel, US Editors Letter, ArtReview, cover and feature, pages 61-63, September
Cotter, Holland, Black comes in Many Shadings, The New York Times, Friday, August 13, page E29
Kelly, Kevin, Reward for Creative Touch, Daily Nation, Lifestyle Magazine, August 11
Johnson, Kenneth, Shes Come Undone, The New York Times, July 9
Ribas, Joao, Shes come Undone, Time Out, July 8, page 55
Kerr, Merrily, Extreme Makeovers, Art on Paper, July/August, page 28-29
Schwendener, Martha, "She's Come Undone", ArtForum.com critics pick, June
Saltz, Jerry, Borough Hall, Village Voice, May 3
Smith, Roberta, "Emerging Talent and Plenty of It", The New York Times, March 12
Martin, Courtney, Looking Both Ways, Flash Art, January/February
Worman, Alex, "L.A. Confidential", Artnet.com, January 24
Daily, Meghan, "Peter Norton - Collecting with a Conscience", Guggenheim Magazine, Winter, pg 30
2003
Williamson, Sue, Looking Both Ways, Artthrob, December
Cotter, Holland, Redefining the African Diaspora, New York Times, November 21
Pagel, David, Harrowing, hallucinatory visions - Wangechi Mutu at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles Times, October 24
Martin, Courtney, Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, Flash Art, October
Fleey, Peter, Black President, Frieze Magazine, October, page 118
Sirmans, Franklin, Portfolio, Grand Street, Fall
Koirala, Snigdha, Black President, BOMB, Fall, page 17
Cotter, Holland, King of Music, New York Times, July 18
Cotter, Holland, Off The Record, New York Times, May 16
Cotter, Holland, Wangechi Mutu, New York Times, March 14
McKanic, Arlene, Mutus Disturbing Creatures at JCAL, Q.guide, March 13
Ashford, Doug, Off The Record, Time Out Magazine, May 8-15
Croal, Aida Mashaka, Africana, March
Oneacre, Alison, Hallowed Walls, Womens Wear Daily, February 3
2002
Murray, Soraya, Africaine, NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, Fall/Winter, p. 88-93
Banai, Nuit, Body of Evidence, One World, August/September, p. 124-125
Hazlewood, Carl E., Hot Shows From the Edge: Summer in the City, NYArts, September
Barliant, Claire, Africaine, Art on Paper, July/August
Johnson, Ken, Art Guide, The New York Times, July 5
Cotter, Holland, From the Ferment of Liberation Comes a Revolution in African Art, New York Times, Feb. 17
Budick, Arielle, Identity, a Concept Explored in 2 Harlem Shows, Newsday, February 1
Cunningham, Bill, Old and New, New York Times, January 27
2001
African art exhibit, Daily News, November 25
Sonkin, Rebecca, Good Rap, Art News, April, p. 41
2000
Brockington, Horace, After Representation, The International Review of African American Art, p. 47
Ziolkowski, Thad, The Magic City, Artforum, October
The Magic City, The New Yorker, August 14, p. 14
Johnson, Ken, The Magic City, The New York Times, August 11
Johnson, Ken, The Magic City, The New York Times, August 4
1999
Sirmans, Franklin, Surely it Cannot Burn so Long, Time Out Magazine, November 25December 2
Oguibe, Olu and Enwezor, Okwui, Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace, The MIT Press, p. 10
1998
Sadao, Amy, Transgressive Imaginations, essay and interview on Wangechi Mutu and Rina Banerjee

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

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

Public Collections

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