May 6 — June 25, 2021
New York: 24th Street
Gladstone Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new sculptures by Wangechi Mutu, and the East Coast premiere of two bronze works: Crocodylus and MamaRay. Drawing upon her sculptural practice, a core aspect of her work, this installation brings to life otherworldly alternatives to the systemic modes of representation portrayed throughout global traditions in art. Through an incisive re-examination of relations between the body, the natural world, and social forces, the works in this exhibition represent a new kind of hybridized humanity and iconography through the artist’s intuitive and forward-thinking eye.
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About
Wangechi Mutu (b.1972, Nairobi, Kenya) lives and works between Brooklyn and Nairobi. She received her MFA from Yale University (2000) and BFA from Cooper Union (1996). In 2019, she inaugurated The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Facade Commission, with an exhibition entitled The NewOnes, will free Us. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo shows, including, Intertwined, at the New Museum, New York (2023) and traveled to the New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana (2024). Other solo exhibitions include: Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greenboro, North Carolina; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina; Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami; Block Museum, Evanston, Illinois; Institute of Contemporary Art Boston; The Contemporary Austin, Texas; SITE, Santa Fe; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin; Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels; Art Gallery of Ontario; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Kunsthalle Wien; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Mutu is the recipient of Deutsche Bank’s “Artist of the Year” award, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Award, and the American Federation of Arts’ Leadership Award.
