Wagechi Mutu is a hugely accomplished contemporary artist and sculptor whose work is internationally recognised. Her brand of art is usually classified under Afrofuturism, basically a blend of science fiction to portray imaginative realities for people of African descent.

Born in Nairobi in 1972, she currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, where she moved in the 1990s. It comes as no surprise that her work has been exhibited worldwide in both group and solo exhibitions since 1996. Her awards include the Richard Leakey Merit Award, Masters of Fine Art Fellowship by the Sculpture Department of Yale University, Jamaica Centre for the Arts Fellowship in Queens, Artist in Residence from the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Deutsche Bank as their first Artist of the Year.

Mutu’s art has been featured in numerous catalogues in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia, and she has also been an artist lecturer since 2002 for various audiences where her work has been published. She has various public collections in the US, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK including the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, at The Hague in the Netherlands and the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal in Montreal, Canada.