Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Wangechi Mutu
Lives and works in New York
2000
MFA Sculpture, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1996
BFA, Cooper Union for the Advancement of the Arts and Science, New York
1991
IB, United World College of the Atlantic, Wales, UK
1972
born in Nairobi, Kenya
2013
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, solo
Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, solo
2012
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA, solo
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany, solo
Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, solo
Musee d art contemporarain, Montreal, Canada, solo
2011
Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
2010
“Hunt Bury Flee”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
“Wangechi Mutu: My Dirty Little Heaven”, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany, traveling to: Wiels Museum, Brussels, Belgium (link)
“Wangechi Mutu: This You Call Civilization?”, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada
2008
"Wangechi Mutu - In Whose Image”, Kunsthalle Wien Project Space Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria, curated by Angela Stief,
"Little Touched”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
2007-2008
"Yo.n.l”, Victoia Miro Gallery, London, UK
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
"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, curated by Tara McDowell
"Wangechi Mutu - Amazing Grace”, Miami Art Museum, curated by Peter Boswell, Miami, FL
"problematica”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
2004
"Hangin in Texas”, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX
2003
"Pagan Poetry”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
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
2014
“Artists in Dialogue 3”, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
2013
“Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
“Divine Comedy”, Modern Art Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
2012
“30 Americans”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
“The Calendar’s Tale: Fantasy, Figuration and Representation”, Boston University, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
“The Virgins Show”, FAMILY BUSINESS, New York, NY
African Contemporary Art, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India
“Intense Proximity”, La Triennale at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
“Six Yards, Guaranteed Read Dutch Wax”, Museum of Modern Art, Armhem, Armhem, Netherlands
“28 Days”, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA
2011
“Stargazers: Elizabeth Catlett in Conversation with 21 Contemporary Artists”, Bronx Museum, NY
“Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“Twisted Selves”, University of California Riverside Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
“Alles Kannibalen?”, Me-Collector’s Room, Berlin, Germany
“Taguchi Art Collection-Global New Art”, Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
“The Bearden Project”, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2010
“Disquieted: Contemporary voices from Out of the Shadows”, Portland Art Museum, Oregon
“Until Now: Collecting the New 1960-2010”, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
“Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years (1980 – Now)”, The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
“Inaugural Group Exhibition”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
“Water”, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
“The Secret Lives of Trees”, Monica De Cardenas Galleria, Milan, Italy
“Faces”, Monica De Cardenas Galleria, Milan, Italy
“Sharon Stone in Abuja”, Location One, New York, NY
“Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic”, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK, traveling to: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
“Visceral Bodies”, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC, Canada
2009-2010
“The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video”, the International Center of Photography, New York
“The Spectacle of The Everyday”, 10th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France, curated by Hou Hanru
2009
“Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women, and Art”, Art Work for Change and the Tides Center, traveling to: The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway; Art Gallery of Wellington, New Zealand; De Menil, Marfa, TX; UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; and more
“Rebelle. Art and Feminism 1969-2009”, Museum Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Netherlands
“Black Womanhood”, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
“Under the Knife”, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
“Sortilège”, Jean-Marc Soloman, Château d'Arenthon, France
“Paint Made Flesh”, Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; travelling to: the Phillips Collection, Washington DC
"Permanent Collection”, The Studio Museum Harlem, Harlem, NY
2008-2009
"Mrs. Sarah’s House” off-site installation at Prospect 1 New Orleans, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA
2008
"Videostudio”, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
"Objects of Value”, The Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
"Excert”, Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY
"U-Turn”, Quadrennial for Contemporay Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Pandora’s Box”, Dunlop Art Gallery, Saskatchewan, Canada
"Eros: Love, Lust and it’s Consequences” Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York, NY
"Transformation AGO”, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
"30 Americans”, The Rubell Collection., Miami, FL (December 3, 2008 – November 28, 2009)
"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: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY (Catalogue)
"In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz School”, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
"Black Woman Hood: Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body”, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
"Collage: The Unmonumental Picture”, New Museum, New York, NY, curated by Richard Flood, Massimiliano Gioni, and Laura Hoptman
2007
"Body Politic”, Branch Gallery, Durham, NC
"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
2006-2007
"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, UK
"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 2nd Seville Biennale”, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain, curated by Okwui Enwezor
"Interstellar Low Ways—Sun Ra”, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
"Having New Eyes”, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
"Heroines”, Gallery Met, New York
"Land Mine”, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
"Distant Relatives/Relative Distance”, The Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
"Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism”, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano, Italy, curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto
"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)
2005-2006
"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
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”, Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, traveling to McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, OH; Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, VA
"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
"Girls on Film”, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, curated by Kristine Bell
"The White Rose”, Brent Sikkema, New York
"Greater New York 2005”, PS1, Long Island City, NY
"Rewind, Re-cast, Review”, Berrie Arts Center, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, curated by Isolde Brielmaier
"African Queen”, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
"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 (catalogue), traveling to San Diego Museum of Art, CA; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2004-2006
"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
2004
"Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing”, Tate Modern, London, curated by Emma Dexter
"Fight or Flight”, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York
"I Feel Mysterious Today”, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL, curated by Dominik Molone
"It’s About Memory”, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, curated by Simon Watson
"Africa Remix”, Kunstplast Duesseldorf, Germany, traveling to Centre Pompidou, Paris, France and the Hayward Galllery, London U.K.
"Color Theory”, Vitamin Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy, curated by Franklin Sirmans
"Art on Paper”, Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC, curated by Ron Platt
"Color Wheel Oblivion”, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy, curated by Chris Perez.
"Figuratively: Dave McKenzie, Wangechi Mutu, William Villalongo”, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
"She ’s Come Undone”, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, curated by Agusto Arbizo
"Gwangju Biennale”, South Korea
"Gio Ponti: Furnished Settings and Figuration”, ACME, Los Angeles, curated by Peter Loughrey and Chip Tom
"New”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
"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
2003-2004
"Open House: Working in Brooklyn”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY, curated by Tumelo Mosaka and Charlotta Kotik
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, NY, traveling to Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA, curated by Laurie Ann Farrell
"New Art Wave”, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Dan Cameron
Museum Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal
Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
"ArtBasel Miami Beach”, Miami, FL, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
"Armory Art Fair”, New York, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
"The Broken Mirror”, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, curated by Chitra Ganesh
"Wangechi Mutu/Carl Scholz”, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
"NextNext Visual Art”, Brooklyn Academy of Museum, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Dan Cameron, New Museum of Contemporary Art
"7 Walls, 8 Views”, Arena Gallery, New York, curated by Renee Ricardo
"Creatures”, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
Parish Art Museum, Studio Museum Exhibition, South Hampton, NY
2002
"Africaine”, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, curated by Christine Kim
"Culture In A Jar”, Longwood Art Museum, New York, curated by Wanda Ortiz
"Model Citizens”, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, curated by Janet Dees
"Brooklyn in Paris”, Gallery Chez Valentin, Paris
"ArtBasel Miami Beach”, Miami, FL, with Anne de Villepoix Gallery
"Scratch”, Arena Gallery, New York
2001
"Out of the Box”, Queens Museum, New York
"Group Show”, River Bank Gallery, New York
"Challenge”, Skylight Gallery, New York
"Fusion”, MoCada, New York
2000
"The Magic City”, Brent Sikemma, New York, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker
1999
Rush Arts Gallery, New York
1998
"In Coming”, Art and Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT
"Fusions”, Imarisha Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1997
"Life’s Little Necessities”, Johannesburg Biennale, The Castle, Cape Town, South Africa, curated by Kellie Jones
1996
"One Voice”, 7th Gallery, Cooper Union, New York
2011
Hirsch, Faye, “ Sharon Stone In Abuja”, Art in America, March
Kunitz, Daniel, “Wangechi Mutu”, Modern Painters, September
2010
Sandals, Leah, “Questions and Artists: Wangechi Mutu’s Beauty Riff Collages”, National Post, February 25
Wiensowski, Ingeborg, “Grausamer Glamour: Schön und erschreckend wirken die Collagen von Wangechi Mutu. Erstmals sind sie in Berlin zu sehen”, Kultur Spiegel, April (link)
Cash, Stephanie, “Wangechi Mutu: Terrible Beautry”, Art In America, May
Kuhn, Nicola, “Gefährlich schöne Göttinnen”, Der Tagesspiegel, April 29 (link)
Woeller, Marcus, “Sex und Gewalt (Vorsicht, Falle!)", TAZ, May 12 (link)
Nutt, Harry, “Mischwesen”, Frankfurter Rundscha (link)
Rosenberg, Karen, “Wangechi Mutu, Hunt, Bury and Flee”, The New York Times, November 12
Kantilal Patel, Alpesh, “Wangechi Mutu, Gladstone Gallery”, ArtForum Critic’s Pick, November 17
Goldstein, Andrew, “Wangechi Mutu Wins Deutsche Bank ‘Artist of the Year’ Award”, Art Info, February 23
Bodin, Claudia, “Monströse Bräute und Zwitter”, Ar: Das Kunstmagazin, May
Crow, Kelly, “Wangechi Mutu is Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year 2010”, Wall Street Journal, February 22
Karcher, Eva, “Wangechi Mutu”, Vogue.de, April 28
Dembo, Wendy, “My Dirty Little Heaven”, coolhunting.com, April 28
Evans, Matthew, “We Categorize What We’re Afraid Of”, Deutsche Guggenheim Magazine, Issue 11, Spring
2009
Cotter, Holland, “The Week Ahead: April 26 - May 2”, New York Times, April 24
Sweeney, Eve, “A Fertile Mind”, Vogue, pp. 190, 248, April, Photographed by Annie Leibovitz
Smith, Roberta, “Dress Codes: Beyond a Simple Fashion Statement”, New York Times, October 8
Bernoni, Giorgia, “Un Corpo Mutante e Ambiguo”, Inside Art (Italy), March
Mirov, Ben, “ART: Pretty Ugly: Wangechi Mutu, A Shady Promise”, Brooklyn Rail, February
Wei, Lilly, “New Orleans Report: Deliverance: The Biennial”, Art In America, February
Halpern, Ashlea, “Out of Africa”, TimeOut New York, pg 41 Issue 694 January 15-2
Ligon, Glenn, “Civic Engagement: To Miss New Orleans”, Art Forum, January
Stern, Steven, “Looking Back: Prospect.1 New Orleans”, Frieze, Issue 120, January
2008
Mueller, Kurt, “Houston: Damaged Romanticism at the Blaffer Gallery”, Art Lies, No. 60, Winter
Gawlik, Goschka, “Horror Beauties mit Zerschnittenen Seelen”, Art Magazine, November 19
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter, ARTnews, Los Angeles: Wangechi Mutu, pg 176 Vol 107/Number 10, Novermber
“Studio”, Studio Magazine, Museum of Harlem, Upcoming Exhibitions, pg 13, Fall/Winter
Austin, Tom, “Dollar Signs, Moral Symbols: A MAM Exhibition Incites Plenty of Value Judgments”, The Miami Herald, December 7
Finch, Charlie, “Lighter than Eros”, Artnet, November 12
Ellwood, Mark, “Our Man In: New Orleans”, GQ Magazine, November 7
Robinson, Walter, “Bleeding-Heart Biennale”, Art Net Magazine, November 7
Britt, Douglas, “Blaffer Exhibit Finds Beauty in the Bleak”, The Houston Chronicle, November 5
Dewan, Shaila, “New Orleans Rising, by Hammer and Art”, New York Times, October 29
Browne, Alix, “Cuff Love”, New York Times, October 3
Watson, Simon, “Wangechi Mutu: Mass in the Time of War”, Whitewall, Spring
Pagel, Daniel, “Boldly Linking all the Pieces: Wangechi Mutu at Vielmetter”, Los Angeles Times, April 11
Miles, Christopher, “Art Around Town”, Los Angeles Weekly, April 10
Dembo, Wendy, “Wangechi Mutu”, Cool Hunting, April 7
Garcia, Kathryn, “Culver City, Opening Night”, For Your Art, April 2
“Continuing and Recommended”, ArtScene, April
Heartney, Eleanor, “Make It New”, Art in America, April
“Wangechi Mutu: Little Touched”, Beautiful Decay.com, April 1
Catherine Wagley, “Destroying Prettiness: Wangechi Mutu and Kara Walker”, Daily Serving, March 31
Goldman, Edward, “ArtTalk: Art, Sex, and Videotape”, KCRW, March 18
Shaw, Alex, “More Flavor: Lecture, Wangechi Mutu”, Flavorpill, March 13
Turner, Elisa, “Wilfredo Lam Meets Miami”, Art Circuits: Miami Visual Art Guide, Spring
Enright, Robert, “Resonant Surgeries: The Collaged World of Wangechi Mutu”, Border Crossings Magazine, Issue No. 105, February
Yablonsky, Linda, “Poll Positions”, Artforum.com, February 6
“Feature: Paper Cuts”, Artkrush, Issue 77, February 6
Martin, Courtney J., “Pick: Wangechu Mutu at Victoia Miro Gallery, London”, Artforum, January 18
Martin, Courtney J., “Wangechi Mutu: Yo.n.l”, Artkrush, Issue 75, January 9
Cox, Lorraine Morales, “Transformed Bodies, Colonial Wounds & Ethnographic Tropes: Wangechi Mutu’ in 2008
Violence”, N. Paradoxa International Feminist Art Journal, Ed. Katy Deepwell, Volume 21
2007
Volzke, Daniel, “Ab dem 22. November: Wangechi Mutu zeigt opulente Collagen in London”, Monopol, December
Steinberg, Claudia, “Aufbruchstimmung an der Lower East Side”, Kunstzitung, December
Macmillan, Kyle, “Exhibit shows a world of fine artists”, Denver Post, November 1
Eshun, Ekow, “The Art of Darkness”, Vogue, November
Row, DK, “In praise of bolder women”, The Oregonian, October 29
“Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice”, The Big Bend Sentinel, September 20
Mullins, Charlotte, Painting People, Figure Painting Today, pg 110
Voelz Chandler, Mary, “Inside the Box: New Museum building squares up space for art, education, community”, Rocky Mountain News, August 23
Dimling Cochran, Rebecca, “Pick: Wangechi Mutu at ACA Gallery, Atlanta”, Artforum, June 7
Heartney, Eleanor, “Worldwide Women”, Art in America, June/July
Aldarondo, Cecilia, “Ghada Amer + Wangechi Mutu”, Art Papers, May/June
Kruger, Barbara, “Wangechi Mutu”, Interview Magazine, April
Nolan, Joe, “Wangechi Mutu: Sleeping Heads Lie”, Number Independent Arts Journal, No 58, Spring
Koenig, Wendy, “Wangechi Mutu: Memphis”, Art Papers, March/April
Abbie, Mary, “Feminism Revisited: Art by two African-born women revitalizes feminist issues in a handsome Franklin Art Show”, Star Tribune, March
Brooks, Amra, “Fair Report: Art LA”, artinfo, February 10
Cotter, Holland, “Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage”, The New York Times, January 29
Ellis, Patricia, “Catching up with Charles (Saatchi)”, FlashArt, January/February
Oguibe, Olu, “Looking Back: the most significant shows of 2006”, frieze, January, issue 104
Spaulding, David, “New York, Interrupted”, Artforum, January
2006
Mullins, Charlotte, “Painting People: the state of the art”, Thames and Hudson, London
Cameron, Dan, “New York, Interrupted”, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
Jongbloed, Marjorie, “Entangled: Approaching Contemporary African Artists”, Marjorie Jongbloed and VolkswagenStiftung, Hannover
“Wangechi Mutu- The Art Universe”, Vanity Fair, December, pg352
Koeppel, Fredric, “Gorgeous surfaces in a nightmare of sensuality, corruption, violence”, The Memphis Commercial Appeal, November 10
Maart, Brenton, “Distant Relatives: Artists of the African Diaspora”, Mail and Gardian, Western Cape South Africa, Vol. 22 #43, pg 2, Nov 3-9
“New Prints Review”, Art on Paper, November/December
Carver, Jon, “Still Points of the Turning World”, Art Papers, November/December, pg 69
Martin, Courtney, “Site San Fe 6th International Biennial: ‘Still Points of the Turning World”, Contemporary, Issue 86, pg 64
Blumenstein, Ellen, “L.A. Confidential”, Monopol, November/December
Korotkin, Lindsay, “Reviews”, Tema Celeste, November/December, pg 78
Berkovitch, Ellen, “SITE Santa Fe’s 6th International Biennial”, artUS, November
Colpitt, Frances, “A Slow-Motion Biennial”, Art in America, October, pp 69-75
Murray, DC, “Wangechi Mutu at SFMOMA”, Art in America, October, pg 205
Wright, Karen, “Saatchi Exhibits Totemic Art, Surrealist Penis”, bloomberg.com, October 6
Muchnic, Suzanne, “The Art Explosion”, Los Angeles Times, October 1
Rimanelli, David, “Scene & Herd: A Night at the Opera”, Artforum.com, September 26
Blum, Kelly, and Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, ed. “Art is Passion”, Blanton Museum of Art: America Art Since 1900,
“The Articulate”, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
Auricchio, Laura, “Wangechi Mutu”, Art Papers, September/October
Murinik, Tracy, “Afro-Alien Exquisite Corpses”, Art South Africa, Spring, pp 26-29
Klopper, Sandra, “Distant Relatives/Relative Distance”, Art South Africa, Spring, pp 64-65
Black, Ezrha Jean, “Labyrinths of SITE: Ottmann scales down numbers and theme, but stays big on art”, artillery, vol 1 no 1, September
Vogel, Carol, “Where Bel Canto Meets Paintbrush”, New York Times, August 15
Morris, Tom, "Still Points of the Turning World", ArtReview, July, issue 1, p 37
Roberts, Angela, "Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism", ArtReview, July, issue 1, p 139
Walker, Hollis, "Colonial apparitions", Pasatiempo, July 7-13
Fischer, Zane, "Art Without Excuses", Santa Fe Reporter, July 5-11
“Wangechi Mutu”, The New Yorker, June 26
“Wangechi Mutu”, The New Yorker, June 12
Smith, Roberta, “Wangechi Mutu: An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems”, New York Times, June 9
Kazanjian, Dodie, “Fierce Creatures”, Vogue, June
Perryer, Sophie, “Distant Relatives/Relative Distance” (catalogue no.21), June
Berwick, Carly, “Jungle-Punk Princesses Populate Wangechi Mutu’s Solo NYC Debut”, Bloomberg.com, May 31
Wilson, Michael, “House Red”, Artforum.com Diary, May 25
Pollack, Barbara, “Wangechi Mutu: An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems,” Time Out New York, Issue 556, May 25-31
Cotter, Holland. “ART; Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage”, The New York Times, Section E, pg1, January
Schmidt, Jason, Artists: photographs by Jason Schmidt, pg 90
Oliveira, Filipa, “Wangechi Mutu”, Arte Contemporanea, pg 66
“For Committed Civic Engagement”, The Cooper Union, pg 16
Thomas, Liz, “Wangechi Mutu”, The F-Word Zine, Number 2, page 2
1111 Journal of Literature and Art, Volume III
Cotter, Holland, “Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage”, New York Times, January
Helfand, Glen, “Wangechi Mutu”, Artforum.com, January 3
Helfand, Glen, “Voluptuous Horror – Wangechi Mutu harnesses the power of violence and beauty”, San Francisco Bay Guardian.com,vol. 10 no. 14, January 4-10
Mullins, Charlotte, “Painting People”, Thames & Hudson
“Wangechi Mutu at SFMoma”, ArtInfo.com, March
Goodyear, Sarah, “Wangechi Mutu: An Artist Comes into Her Own”, Bklyn, Spring, page 20
Reynolds, Nigel, “Saatchi is ready for another sensation at the RA”, The Daily Telegraph, April 5
Lewis, Caroline, “Saatchi’s USA Today at the Royal Academy of Arts London”, 24hourmuseum.org, May 10
Alberge, Dalva, “Hang it all—they want to sneak Saatchi’s junk into our academy”, The Times (UK), May 11
Taylor, Catharine P, “Charles Saatchi messes with ‘USA Today’”, adweek.blogs.com, May 12
Miller, Paul, “A Gathering of the Tribes #11”, Time Out New York, Issue 556, pg 70, May 25-31
2005
Rosenberg, Karen, “Artists on the Verge of a Breakthrough”, New York Magazine, March 3
Andersson, Ruben, “Mixed Bag of African avant-garde”, The London Globe, March 20
“Where to buy - Wangechi Mutu”, The Week, March 25
Brielmaier, Isolde, “Wangechi Mutu: Re-Imagining The World”, Parkett, No. 74, pp. 6-13
Chevalier, Jari, “Greater New York Show at P.S.1”, The New York Art World.com, April
Lo, Melissa, “Wangechi Mutu”, Flash Art, May/June Issue, Vol. XXXVIII, NO. 242, page 146
“‘Post-Black,’ ‘Post-Soul,’ or Hip-Hop Iconography: Defining the new Aesthetics”, The International Review of African American Art, Volume 20 #2
de La Forterie, Maud, “Africa Remix Continental,” Art Actuel, Issue #38, May/June, pages 47-50
Korotkin, Joyce B., “Fight or Flight”, Tema Celeste, May/June, pages 76-77
Heartney, Eleanor, “Return to the Real”, Art in America, June/July, pages 85-89
Kapferer, Roland, “Africa Remix”, Frieze, June/July/August Issue 92, page 156
Sheets, Hilarie M., “Using Art to Build Pride”, The New York Times, June 1
“‘Amazing Grace’: First Solo Show for Kenyan-born Artist”, Coral Gables Gazette, July 21
Suarez de Jesus, Carlos, “Mutu’s Mojo”, The Miami New Times, July 21
Bravo, Gabriel C., “Wangechi Mutu Art Exhibit”, MiamiPoetryReview.com, July 22
Ellis, Patricia, “Wangechi Mutu - The Triumph of Painting”, The Saatchi Gallery essay
Fricke, Kirsten, “Wangechi Mutu”, Beautiful/Decay, Issue L, August
“Amazing Grace”, Miami Monthly, August
Luis, Carlos M., “Wangechi Mutu y su ‘Amazing Grace’”, Artes & Letras, August 7
“Arty Hour”, The Herald, August 12
Hatcher, David, “Poco a Go-Go”, X-tra, Volume 8, Number 1, Fall Issue
Turner, Elisa, “Going Solo: Wangechi Mutu Finds Inspiration In Her Native Africa”, The Miami Herald, Sept.11
Weinberg, Michelle, “Out of Africa: Female Forms that Tell a Tale of Torture”, Miami New Times, Sept. 15
Trellis, Emma, “Mutable Mutu”, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, October
Adjaye, David, “Top Ten”, Artforum, November
“Egon Schiele: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections”, Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art, New York, (catalog illustration, page 388)
Smith, Roberta, “Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist”, The New York Times, November 18
Fricke, Kirsten, “Sex Sells,” Beautiful Decay, December
“Future Greats 2005”, ArtReview, Volume IX, December, page 99
Oliveira, Filipa, “Wangechi Mutu,” W-Art Contemporary Art Magazine, Issue no. 8, pages 66-69
Paul, Jonathan S., “Places, Everyone”, The New York Times Style Magazine, Winter
“Continued and Recommended”, ArtScene, Vol.24, no.7, March
“Painted Ladies”, SouthBank, March
Myers, Holly, “Artists at play in the world”, Los Angeles Times, February 25
Brownell, Ginanne, "Front and Center: In London, it's the year of African art", Newsweek, www.msnbc.com, February 17
Harrison, Sara, “Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing”, Art Monthly, February
Pollack, Barbara, “Panic Room”, Time Out New York, January 13-19, pages 55-56
Biro, Matthew, "Reviews - Midwest", Art Papers, pg. 51, January/February Issue
2004
Graham-Dixon, Andrew, “All stuck and scribbled”, The Sunday Telegraph, December 19, page 112
“Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing”, BBC News UK edition, December 13
Cripps, Charlotte, “Work at the cutting edge”, The Independent Review, December 2, page 18
“A-Z London”, The Art Newspaper, No.153, December
Ciuraru, Carmela, “Cutting Remarks”, Cover Page and Feature, ArtNews, November
Leitzes, Cary Estes, “Body Politic”, and Kunitz, Daniel, US Editor’s Letter, ArtReview, cover and feature, pages 61-63, September
Cotter, Holland, “Black comes in Many Shadings”, The New York Times, Friday, August 13, page E29
Kelly, Kevin, “Reward for Creative Touch”, Daily Nation, Lifestyle Magazine, August 11
Johnson, Kenneth, “She’s Come Undone”, The New York Times, July 9
Ribas, Joao, “She’s come Undone”, Time Out, July 8, page 55
Kerr, Merrily, “Extreme Makeovers”, Art on Paper, July/August, page 28-29
Schwendener, Martha, "She's Come Undone", ArtForum.com 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
Daily, Meghan, "Peter Norton - Collecting with a Conscience", Guggenheim Magazine, Winter, pg 30
2003
Williamson, Sue, “Looking Both Ways”, Artthrob, December
Cotter, Holland, “Redefining the African Diaspora”, New York Times, November 21
Pagel, David, “Harrowing, hallucinatory visions - Wangechi Mutu at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects”, Los Angeles Times, October 24
Martin, Courtney, “Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti”, Flash Art, October
Fleey, Peter, “Black President”, Frieze Magazine, October, page 118
Sirmans, Franklin, “Portfolio”, Grand Street, Fall
Koirala, Snigdha, “Black President”, BOMB, Fall, page 17
Cotter, Holland, “King of Music”, New York Times, July 18
Cotter, Holland, “Off The Record”, New York Times, May 16
Cotter, Holland, “Wangechi Mutu”, New York Times, March 14
McKanic, Arlene, “Mutu’s Disturbing ‘Creatures’ at JCAL”, Q.guide, March 13
Ashford, Doug, “Off The Record”, Time Out Magazine, May 8-15
Croal, Aida Mashaka, Africana, March
Oneacre, Alison, “Hallowed Walls”, Women’s Wear Daily, February 3
2002
Murray, Soraya, “Africaine”, NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art, Fall/Winter, p. 88-93
Banai, Nuit, “Body of Evidence”, One World, August/September, p. 124-125
Hazlewood, Carl E., “Hot Shows From the Edge: Summer in the City”, NYArts, September
Barliant, Claire, “Africaine”, Art on Paper, July/August
Johnson, Ken, “Art Guide”, The New York Times, July 5
Cotter, Holland, “From the Ferment of Liberation Comes a Revolution in African Art”, New York Times, Feb. 17
Budick, Arielle, “Identity, a Concept Explored in 2 Harlem Shows”, Newsday, February 1
Cunningham, Bill, “Old and New”, New York Times, January 27
2001 “African art exhibit”, Daily News, November 25
Sonkin, Rebecca, “Good Rap”, Art News, April, p. 41
2000
Brockington, Horace, “After Representation”, The International Review of African American Art, p. 47
Ziolkowski, Thad, “The Magic City”, Artforum, October
“The Magic City”, The New Yorker, August 14, p. 14
Johnson, Ken, “The Magic City”, The New York Times, August 11
Johnson, Ken, “The Magic City”, The New York Times, August 4
1999
Sirmans, Franklin, “Surely it Cannot Burn so Long”, Time Out Magazine, November 25—December 2
Oguibe, Olu and Enwezor, Okwui, “Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace”, The MIT Press, p. 10
1998
Sadao, Amy, “Transgressive Imaginations”, essay and interview on Wangechi Mutu and Rina Banerjee
2010
Hütte, Friedhelm, Ed., “Wangechi Mutu: My Dirty Little Heaven”, with essays by Okwui Enwezor, Lauri Firstenberg, Courtney J. Martin, and Klaus Ottman, Deutsche Guggenheim, Hatje Kanz, Berlin
2009
“rebelle, Art and Feminism 1960-2009”, Museum of Modern Art, Arnheim, NL
Holzwarth, Hans Werner, Ed. “100 Contemporary Artists”, Taschen , Berlin
Bonham-Carter, Charlotte, and David Hodge, “The Contemporary Art Book”, Goodman Books, Carlton Press, London
Hobbs, Robert, Franklin Sirmans and Michele Wallace, “30 Americans”, Rubell Family Collection
Scala, W. Mark, ed., “Paint Made Flesh”, First Center for Visual Arts, Vanderbilt University Press
“In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor”, Laguna Art Museum in association with Gingko Press
2008
Holzwarth, Hans Werner, “Art Now, Vol. 3”, Taschen, essay by Astrid Mania
“Prospect.1 New Orleans”, texts by Barbara Bleomink, Dan Cameron, Lolis Eric Elie, and Claire Tancons, Picturebox Inc., Brooklyn, NY, November
Singleton, Douglas Ed., “Wangechi Mutu: A Shady Promise”, Damiani Press, with essays by Isolde Brielmaier, Malik Gaines and Michael Veal, March
“Video Studio”, Studio Museum in Harlem, p. 5, Fall/Winter
Sultan, Terry, David Pagel, Colin Gardner, Claudia Schmuckli, “Damaged Romanticism: A Mirror of Modern Emotion”, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, D Giles Limited, London
“Yo.n.l”, Victoia Miro Gallery, London, UK
2007
“Global Feminisms, New Directions in Contemporary Art”, Brooklyn Museum Merrell Publishers Limited, pp 53, 280
“Wangechi Mutu: The Cinderella Curse”, ACA Gallery of SCAD, November
2006
Zoubok, Pavel, “The New Collage,” Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
Enwezor, Okwui, “The Unhomely Phantom Scenes in Global Society”, October
“Wangechi Mutu”, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, New York
Gupta, Anjali, “Wangechi Mutu”, Blanton Museum of Art, American Art Since 1900, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, pgs 220-221
“INFINITE PAINTING- Contemporary Painting and Global Realism”, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, September, pg 122
Brandstetter, Anna-Maria, “Violence/Trauma/Memory”, ed. Marjorie Jongbloed, Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover, Germany
Ottmann, Klaus, “Still Points of the Turning World”, SITE Santa Fe International Biennial Exhibition, July
Bonami, Francesco, Cosulich, Canarutto, Sarah, “Infinite Painting”, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, exhibition catalog, pg.122-123
2005
Dexter, Emma, Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawings, Phaidon Press, London and New York, essay page 214, illustrations page 215-217, bio page 334
“Africa Remix”, Hayward Gallery, London
McDowell, Tara, “New Work: Wangechi Mutu”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Kantor, Jordan, Drawing from the Modern: 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York, p. 185
“Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Cultures”, Pamela Auchincloss Arts Management and
University of Richmond Museums, VA
“Greater New York 2005”, P.S. 1. Contemporary Art Center/ MoMA, Queens, NY, March
Kuramitsu, Kris and LeFelle-Collins, Lizetta, “Linkages & Themes in the African Diaspora: Selections from the Eileen Harris Norton and Peter Norton Art Collections”, Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco
Boswell, Peter, “Wangechi Mutu - Amazing Grace”, Miami Art Museum
“eleven eleven {1111} Journal of Literature and Art”, California College of the Arts San Francisco
Brielmaier, Isolde and Tu, Thuy Linh N., “Rewind/Re-Cast/Review”, Berrie Arts Center, NJ
“Color Wheel Oblivion”, Marella Arte Contemporanea, pp. 38-40
2004
“Africa Remix”, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Germany
“Gwangju Biennial”, South Korea
Muhammad, Dalya Erica, “Wangechi Mutu”, The Studio Museum in Harlem, July
Cameron, Dan, Artpace Residencies and Exhibition Catalog, pg. 63-69
2003
Farrell, Laurie Ann, “Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora” Museum for African Art, Long Island City, NY, catalogue essay by Laurie Firstenberg, “Perverse Anthropology”
Schoonmaker, Trevor, “Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti”, The New Museum, New York
1997
Jones, Kellie, “Life’s Little Necessities: Installations by Women in the 1990s”, Trade Routes: History and Geography, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, p. 287
The Altoids Collection/ The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
The Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin, TX
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
The Judith Rothschild Foundation/ The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
The San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2008
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, New York, NY
Cooper Union Urban Visionaries Awards, Emerging Talent Award, New York, NY
2007
The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Award New York, NY
2006
President’s Citation in Art, Cooper Union, New York, NY
2005
Artist in Residence, Steep Rock, Washington, CT
2004
Artist in Residence, ArtPace, San Antonio, TX
The Chrysalis Award, The Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art, New York
2003
Artist in Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Artist in Residence, Cooper Union, New York
2001
Jamaica Center for the Arts Fellowship, Queens, NY
2000
Fannie B. Pardee Fellowship, New Haven, CT
1998
Masters of Fine Art Fellowship, Sculpture Department, Yale University
1994
Richard Leakey Merit Award, Nairobi, Kenya
2010
Probst, Carsten, “Eine Afrikanische Gegenwartskuenstlerin”, Deutschlandradio Kultur, April 29
Exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim discussed on “The Strand”, BBC World Service, May 1
“Wangechi Mutu: My Dirty Little Heaven / Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin”, Vernissage TV, May 3
2008
Artist Lecture, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Artist Panel, The Cooper Union School of Art, "Prospect.1: A Biennial For New Orleans”, New York, NY
Panel: Art Chicago - Speaks Patronage and Contemporary Art, Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Artist Lecture, Eastern Illinois University, Champaign, IL
Artist Lecture, UCLA-Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Lecture, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Artist Lecture, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
Artist Talk, Yale, New Haven, CT
Artist Talk, The Hirshorn Museum and Garden, Washington DC
Artist Talk, New Museum, "Collage: The Unmonumental Picture”, New York, NY
2007
Artist Lecture, Tyler School of Art, "Critical Dialogues Lecture”, Elkins Park, PA
Artist Lecture, "Here and Now”, New York University, New York
Artist Lecture, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Artist Lecture, "Cinderella Curse”, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
Visiting Artist, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Artist Lecture, Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Lecture, The Visual Arts at Yale, Yale, New Haven, CT
Artist Lecture, "MoMA Gallery Talks”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Artist Lecture, New York University. The Steindhardt School of Art, New York
Studio Lecture, Independent Curators International, Brooklyn, NY
Panelist, "Feminist Future” symposium, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2006
Artist Lecture, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Artist Lecture, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Panelist, "Multiple Modernities”, Columbia University, New York
Artist Lecture, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Group presentation for Guggenheim, "Exhuming Gluttony”, Salon 94, New York
Panelist, Site Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM
2005
Artist Lecture, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC
Studio Lecture, Miami Art Museum, New York, NY
Artist Lecture, "Amazing Grace”, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Artist Lecture, The Society for Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Artist Lecture, "Fight for Flight”, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY
2004
Artist Lecture, Altoids Art House, Austin, TX
Artist Lecture, "Looking Both Ways”, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Artist Lecture, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
2003
Panelist, "Looking Both Ways”, The Museum of African Art, Long Island City, NY
Artist Lecture, TICA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
"Contemporary African Artists”, moderated by Chester Higgins, Langston Hughes Library, Queens, NY
Artist Lecture, "Creatures”, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Queens, NY
2002
Artist Lecture, Bennigton University, VT
Critique of MFA Work, Union Institute and University at Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
"The Artist Voice: Fatimah Tuggar and Wangechi Mutu”, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
"New York City Museum Educators Roundtable Annual Conference”, Museum of the City of New York, New York
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