Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined

In her most complete survey to date, Wangechi Mutu presents over 100 works in her major solo exhibition, Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, at the New Museum in New York, (2 March–4 June 2023).

A sleek, minimalist structure of irregularly stacked boxes, the New Museum on the Lower East Side is one of Manhattan’s largest established contemporary art institutions. The museum’s exhibition programmes are exclusively dedicated to

New York-based Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu explores issues around gender, race, colonialism, and the Black female body. Since the 1990s, her collages, sculptures, video works, and installations have created haunting and sometimes grotesque

The exact date that New York became the perceived centre of the Western art world is debatable. Some say it was in the early 1940s—during World War II—when a number of European artists immigrated to the United States. Others argue that