A native of Nairobi, Kenya, Wangechi Mutu received her MFA degree from Yale University in 2000 and her BFA at Cooper Union College, New York. She has a solo exhibition currently on view at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and will have a solo show opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia this coming May. Mutu recently participated in the Kochi-Muziris Biennial, the first in India, as well as the Paris Triennial: Intense Proximity, curated by Okwui Enwezor, and will be included in the International Center of Photography’s Triennial this May and the Moscow Bienniale this Fall. She has had solo exhibitions at institutions including the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Miami Art Museum; and ArtPace, San Antonio. Mutu’s work is in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
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Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey
