Born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1972, Mutu moved to New York in the 1990s.

Mutu’s work explores gender, race, war, colonialism, global consumption and the exoticization of the black female body. Simultaneously unnerving and alluring, her work defies easy categorization and identification. She is known for creating large collages of female creatures, cutting up National Geographics, fashion magazines, botanical prints and pornography. Mutu says, “I think a lot of my work leans towards the fictional, and the dreamlike, the imaginary space and sort of idealized space. Memory space.”

She is considered by many to be one of the most important contemporary African artists of recent years.

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University presents this video interview with artist Wangechi Mutu as part of her residency at Duke, timed for the opening of "Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey." The Nasher Museum organized the exhibition, Wangechi Mutu's first survey in the United States, the most comprehensive and innovative show yet for this internationally renowned, multidisciplinary artist.

Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu isn't interested in pretty pictures. In her absurdist collages she takes magazine images of women and makes them almost monstrous. Her figures boast transplanted eyes that seem too large, too small, too far apart or too close together to be human.

Solo exhibitions include

Le Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal
WIELS, Brussels
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
MOCA, Miami