Wangechi Mutu: April 1

Wednesday, April 1
3:15- 5:15pm
Parsons, The New School
66 Fifth Ave.
Kellen Auditorium
Ticket Price: Free

Wangechi Mutu is an artist who lives and works in New York. She moved to New York from Kenya in the 1990s to study anthropology and fine art at Cooper Union (BFA, 1996), and Yale University (MFA, 2000). She creates painted and collaged images of female figures, first painting outline images on PET film, then adding detail with photographic fragments of idealised women collected from print magazines. The figures generally feature grotesque distortions of form and skin texture, which critics read as commentary on a variety of feminist and racial issues.

Mutu’s work has exhibited internationally at galleries and museums including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern in London, the Studio Museum in Harlem, Kunstpalast Dusseldorf in Germany, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. She also participated in the 2004 Gwangju Biennale in South Korea. She is represented by Sikkema Jenkins & Co. in New York, Susanne Vielmetter in Los Angeles and Victoria Miro Gallery in London.

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