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Born
1972, Nairobi, Kenya
Education
2000 MFA, Yale University, School of Art
Sculpture, New Haven
1996 BFA, Cooper Union for the Advancement of
the Arts and Science, New York
1991 I.B., United World College of the Atlantic,
Wales, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2009 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (in progress)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada (in progress)
2008
“Wangechi Mutu”,
Kunstverein Wien, Vienna, Austria (in progress)
“Little Touched”,
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2007-08 “Yo.n.l”, Victoia Miro Gallery, London
2007 “Cleaning Earth”, Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis, MN
“The Cinderella Curse”, ACA Gallery, Woodruff Arts Center,
Savannah College of Art and
Design, Savannah, GA
2006 “Sleeping Heads Lie”, Power House,
Memphis, TN
“An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems”,
Sikkema Jenkins &
Co., New York, NY
“Exhuming Gluttony: a Lover’s Requiem”, Salon 94, New York
2005
"The Chief’s Lair’s
A Holy Mess", The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA
“Wangechi Mutu - Amazing Grace”, Miami Art Museum, curated by Peter
Boswell, Miami, FL
"problematica", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Project, Los Angeles
2003 "Pagan Poetry", Susanne Vielmetter
Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
2002 "Creatures", Jamaica Center for the
Arts and Learning, Queens, New York
1999
“Surely it Can’t Burn so Long”, Rush Arts Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2009
"Paint Made Flesh", Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville,
TN, curated by Mark Scala
2008
"Collage: The Unmonumental Picture", New Museum, New York,
NY, curated by Richard
Flood, Massimiliano and Laura Hoptman
“Prospect 1 New Orleans”, curated by Dan Cameron, New
Orleans, LA
“Body Memory”, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton,
NJ
“Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion”, Blaffer
Gallery, the Art Museum of the
University of Houston, Houston, TX, curated by Terrie Sultan, David
Pagel and Colin
Gardner traveling to Parrish Art Museum and the Grey Art Gallery, New
York
University, New York, NY
In the
Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz School”, Laguna Art Museum,
Laguna
Beach,CA
2007
"Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice", Ballroom, Marfa, TX
curated by Bob Nickas
"Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection",
DESTE Foundation, Athens,
Greece, curated by Jeffrey Deitch
Paper Baglady and Other Stories", Timothy Taylor Gallery,
London
"Star Power: Museum as Body Electric", Museum of Contemporary
Art Denver, curated by
Cydney Payton, Denver, CO
"(re)Volver", Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Portugal, curated
by Filipa Oliveira
"Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art",
Brooklyn Museum, New York
2006/07 "New York, Interrupted", PKM Gallery, Beijing, China,
curated by Dan Cameron
2006
"Triumph of
Painting", The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
“USA Today”, Royal Academy of Art, London
“The
New Collage”, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
“(re)Volver”, Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Portugal (curated
by Filipa Oliveira)
“Still Points in the Turning World: SITE Santa Fe’s 6th
Biennial”, SITE Santa Fe, NM,
curated by Klaus Ottman
“The Santa Fe
Biennial”, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, curated by Klaus Ottman
“The 2nd Seville Biennale”, Seville, Spain, curated by Okwui
Enwezor
“Interstellar Low Ways—Sun Ra”, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
“Having New Eyes”, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
"INFINITE PAINTING - Contemporary Painting and Global Realism", Villa
Manin Centre for
Contemporary Art,
Passariano, Italy, curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah
Cosulich
Canarutto
“Heroines”, Gallery Met, New
York
“Land Mine”, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
“Distant Relatives/Relative Distance”, The Michael Stevenson
Gallery, Cape Town, South
Africa
“New African Art”,
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
“Looking Both Ways”, Indian Contemporary Art Gallery
“If a cat gives birth to kittens in an oven, are they
kittens or biscuits?” Roebling Hall, Brooklyn,
NY
“The F-Word: Female Vocals”, Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
“Out of Time: a contemporary view”, Museum of Modern Art,
New York (curated by Joachim
Pissarro)
2005/06 “Linkages & Themes in the African Diaspora: Selections from the
Eileen Harris Norton and
Peter
Norton
Art Collections”, Museum of the African Diaspora, San
Francisco, CA
2004/06 “Africa Remix”, Kunstpalast Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf,
Germany, curated by Simon Njami,
traveling
to Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Hayward Gallery, London; Mori
Art
Museum,
Tokyo,
Japan; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2005
“After Cezanne”, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
“Matisse and Beyond – The Painting and Sculpture Collections”, San
Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
“Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures”, DePauw
University,
Greencastle, IN
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
“Drawing from The Modern, 1975-2005”, Museum of Modern Art, New York,
curated by Jordan
Kantor
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
"Cut", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City
“Girls on Film”, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY, curated by Kristine Bell
“The White Rose”, Brent Sikkema, NY
“Greater New York”, PS1, New York, NY
"Rewind, Re-cast, Review”, Ramapo College in Mahwah New Jersey, curated
by Isolde
Brielmaier
"African Queen", The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Follow Me: A Fantasy, Arena 1, Santa Monica, curated by Malik Gaines
"Only Skin Deep Changing Visions of the American Self ", International
Center of
Photography, curated by Brian Wallis and Coco Fusco, catalog
traveling to: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, Museum of
Photographic
Arts,San Diego, CA
2004 "Pin-Up - Contemporary Collage and
Drawing", Tate Modern, London, UK, curated by Emma
Dexter
"Fight or Flight", Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York,
NY
"I
Feel Mysterious Today", Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm
Beach, FL,
curated by Dominik Molone
“Color Theory”, Vitamin Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy, curated by
Franklin Sirmans
"Art
on Paper", Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC, curated by Ron Platt
"Africa Remix", kunstpalast duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany, curated
by Simon Njami,
traveling to:
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Hayward Gallery, London
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Color Wheel Oblivion”, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy,
curated by Chris Perez.
"Figuratively: Dave McKenzie, Wangechi Mutu, William Villalongo", The
Studio Museum,
Harlem, NY
"She's Come Undone", Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Gwangju Biennale, Korea
"Gio
Ponti: Furnished Settings and Figuration", curated by Peter Loughrey and
Chip Tom,
ACME, Los Angeles, CA
"New", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"The
Raw and the Cooked", Claremont Center for the Arts, Claremont, CA,
curated by David
Pagel
"Dessins
et des autres", Anne de Villepoix Gallery, Paris, France
2003/04 "Open House: Working in Brooklyn", Brooklyn Museum of Art,
Brooklyn, NY
2003
"We
Are Electric", Deitch Projects, New York, curated by Chris Perez
“Only Skin Deep”, International Center of Photography, New
York, curated by Coco Fusco
Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
“Dubrow International”, Krevits/Wehby, New York, curated by
Norman Dubrow
“Off the Record”, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by
Kambui Olujimi
“Black President: the Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti”,
New Museum of Contemporary
Art,
New York, traveling to The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnatti, OH;
The Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Barbican Centre, London,
UK,
curated by
Trevor Schoonmaker
"Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora", Museum
for African Art,
Long Island City, New York, curated by Laurie Ann Farrell, traveling to:
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
"New
Art Wave", Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Museum Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal
Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California
ArtBasel Miami Beach, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Armory Show, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, New York, NY
“The
Broken Mirror”, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York,
curated by
Chitra Ganesh
Parish Art Museum, Studio Museum Exhibition, South Hampton,
NY
“Creatures”, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning,
Queens, NY
“7 Walls, 8 Views”, Arena Gallery, New York, curated by
Renee Ricardo
“NextNext Visual Art”, Brooklyn Academy of Museum, Brooklyn,
NY, curated by Dan
Cameron, New Museum of Contemporary Art
“Wangechi Mutu/Carl Scholz”, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL, with Anne de
Villepoix Gallery
Culture In A Jar, Long Wood Art Museum, New York
Africaine, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
“Scratch”, Arena Gallery, New York
“Brooklyn in Paris”, Gallery Chez Valentin, Paris
“Model Citizens”, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, curated by
Janet Dees
2001 Out of the Box, Queens Museum, New York
“Fusion”, MoCada, New York
“Challenge”, Skylight Gallery, New York
“Group Show”, River Bank Gallery, New York
2000 Magic City, Brent Sikkemma, New York
1999
Rush Arts Gallery, New York
1998 “In Coming”, Art and Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT
“Fusions”, Imarisha Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1997 Johannesburg Biennale, The Castle, Cape
Town, South Africa
1996 One Voice, 7th Gallery, Cooper Union, New
York
Awards
2006 President’s Citation in Art, Cooper Union, New York
2005 Steep Rock Residency, CT
2004 ArtPace Residency, San Antonio, Texas
The Chrysalis Award, The Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art,
New York
2003 Studio Museum Harlem Artist In Residency
Program
Cooper Union Artist Residency Program
2001 Jamaica Center for the Arts Fellowship
2000 Fannie B. Pardee Fellowship
1998 Graduate two year Fellowship, Sculpture
Department, Yale University
1994 Richard Leakey Merit Award
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MoMA, Queens, NY, March-
September
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year of African art", Newsweek,
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Gwangju Biennial
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July 9
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critic’s pick, June
Saltz, Jerry, “Borough Hall,” Village Voice, May 3
Smith, Roberta, "Emerging Talent and Plenty of It", The
New York Times, March 12
Martin, Courtney, “Looking Both Ways”, Flash Art,
January/February
Worman, Alex, "L.A. Confidential", Artnet.com,
January 24
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