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Wangechi Mutu uses collage as a means of both physically and conceptually bringing layered depth to her work. Using images cut from fashion magazines, National Geographic, and books about African art, Mutu pieces together figures which are both elegant and perverse. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the SFMOMA, San Francisco; Miami Art Museum, Miami; ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas; and at Victoria Miro Gallery, London; SikkemaJenkins Inc., New York; and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles. Her work was included, among others, in Collage: The Unmonumental Picture, New Museum, New York; Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, DESTE Foundation, Athens, Greece; Star Power: Museum as Body Electric, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; USA Today, Royal Academy of Art, London; The 2nd Seville Biennale, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain; Out of Time: a contemporary view, Museum of Modern Art, NY; Africa Remix, Kunstpalast Duesseldorf, Germany, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; and many others. Mutu graduated with an MFA degree from Yale University in 2000 and received her BFA at Cooper Union College, New York.
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