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  • Born: June 22, 1972
  • Nationality: Kenyan
  • Profession: Artist

Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) is a Kenyan-American visual artist known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work. Born in Kenya, she has lived and established her career in New York for more than twenty years. Mutu's work has directed the female body as subject through collage painting, immersive installation, and live and video performance all the while exploring questions of self-image, gender constructs, cultural trauma, and environmental destruction as well as notions of beauty and power.