Wangechi Mutu | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

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

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

Selected Solo 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)
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

2027: Group Exhibition, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (forthcoming)
2026: “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 (forthcoming)
: “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)
: "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

Selected Talks, Lectures and Panels

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

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

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