Wangechi mutu biography sample

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    • Wangechi Mutu

    Kenyan sculptor

    Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) is a Kenyan American visual artist, known primarily for her painting, sculpture, film, and performance work.[2] Born in Kenya, Mutu now splits her time between her studio there in Nairobi and her studio in Brooklyn, New York, where she has lived and worked for over 20 years.[3] Mutu's work has directed the female body as subject through collage painting, immersive installation, and live and video performance while exploring questions of self-image, gender constructs, cultural trauma, and environmental destruction and notions of beauty and power.[4][5]

    Background and education

    Mutu was born in 1972 in Nairobi, Kenya.[2] She was educated at Loreto Convent Msongari (1978–1989). She left Nairobi at age 16 for high school, studying at the United World College of the Atlantic, in Wales (I.B., 1991).[5] Mutu moved to New York in the late 1990s, focusing on Fin