Wangechi mutu biography of william shakespeare

Overview of the artist

Born on June 22, , in Nairobi, Kenya, she received her BFA from Cooper Union in , and subsequently her MFA in sculpture from Yale University in Her work has been showcased globally, including a prominent retrospective that premiered at the Nasher Museum of Art in North Carolina in and toured internationally.

In the year of , her exhibition titled The NewOnes, Will Free Us, was showcased as the first-ever Facade Commission at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collection included four separate bronze sculptures, each with their title &#; The Seated I, II, III, and IV &#; occupying the previously unoccupied niches on the museum&#;s façade for the past years.

The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Deeply concerned with Western commercialism, Mutu has explained that “a lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it is deceptive, some of it is harmless, and some of it is undetectable.

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