BIOGRAPHY

Born: Nairobi, Kenya, 1972
Resides: Brooklyn, New York
Education: Yale University School of Art (M.F.A., 2000);
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (B.F.A., 1996);
I.B. United World College of the Atlantic, Wales (1991)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007
“Yo.n.I,” Victoria Miro, London.
“The Cinderella Curse,” ACA Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta.

2006
“An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems,” Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York.
“Exhuming Gluttony: A Lover’s Requiem,” Salon 94, New York.
“Sleeping Heads Lie,” Power House, Memphis.

2005
“The Chief Lair’s A Holy Mess,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
“Problematica,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.

2004
“Hangin’ in Texas,” Artpace, San Antonio.

2003
“Pagan Poetry,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.
“Creatures,” Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Queens, New York.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
”Unmonumental,” New Museum, New York.

2007
“Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art,” Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.

2006
“(re)Volver,” Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Portugal.
“New York Interrupted,” PKM Gallery Beijing.
“2nd Biennial Contemporary Art in Seville,” Centro Andaluz de Art Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain. Catalogue.
“Distant Relatives/Relative Distance,” Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa. Catalogue.
“Land Mine,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
“Still Points in the Turning World” SITE Santa Fe’s Sixth Annual Biennial.
“The F-Word: Female Vocals,” Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.
“Alien Nation,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Traveled.
“Black Alphabet: conTEXTS of Contemporary African American Art,” Zacheta National Gallery of Art,
Warsaw, Poland.
“Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

2005
“Uncertain States of America,” Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway. Traveled.
“Landscape Confection,” Wexner Center of the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.

2004
“2004 California Biennial,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California.

2003
“Only Skin Deep,” International Center of Photography, New York.
“A Century of Collecting: African-American Art,” Gallery at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

2002
“Majestic Sprawl,” Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena.

2001
“One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art,” Bronx Museum, New York.
“Freestyle,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Traveled. Catalogue.

Selected Bibliography

2007
Cotter, Holland. “ART: Feminist Art Finally Takes Center Stage,” The New York Times (January 29)

2006

Korotkin, Lindsay, “Reviews,” Tema Celeste (November/December).
Smith, Roberta, “Wangechi Mutu: An Alien Eye and Other Killah Anthems,” The New York Times (June 9).

2005
“Artists on the Verge of a Breakthrough,” New York Magazine (March 7).
Heartney, Eleanor, “Return to the Real,” Art in America (June/July).
Kantor, Jordan, Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawings. London and New York: Phaidon Press.
Sheets, Hilarie M. “Using Art to Build Pride,” The New York Times (June 1).
Smith, Roberta, “Where Issues of Black Identity Meet the Concerns of Every Artist,” The New York Times (November 18).

2004
Cotter, Holland, “Black Comes in Many Shadings,” The New York Times (August 13).