Wangechi mutu artist studio tour

In a new Art21 short film, artist Wangechi Mutu traces how the dualities that form her identity—a connection to both Nairobi and New York, to the city and the natural world—manifest in her multimedia art.

Wangechi Mutu: Between the Earth and the Sky visits the artist's studio in her hometown of Nairobi and dives into the evolution of her artwork.

Wangechi Mutu: Between the Earth and the Sky visits the artist's studio in her hometown of Nairobi and dives into the evolution of her artwork.

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Artspace chairman Christopher Vroom visited the artist's Brooklyn studio for the following videos as part of US Trust 's "Heritage Meets Innovation" series.

Join us for a guided tour of Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, currently on exhibit at New Museum.

The New Museum will present a major solo exhibition of the work of Wangechi Mutu (b.

“Wangechi Mutu: Between the Earth and the Sky” follows the artist to her Nairobi studio, where she unpacks her artistic and geographic journeys, beginning with the time she spent in her early years getting closely acquainted with nature in her family’s garden.

Her attendance at an all-girls Catholic school layered an appreciation for feminine energy atop her profound love for nature.

“I was surrounded by all kinds of feminine energy, and because I think of it as such a massively universal part of humanity, I’m able to keep pulling from it.

It’s an eternal source of inspiration for me,” she says in the film, which premieres exclusively on Cultured this morning and will be released widely this afternoon. Mutu als