Wangechi is primarily known for her painting, sculpture, film and performance work. She has established her career in New York City and lived there for more than 20 years.
She has directed the female body as subject through collage painting, immersive installation and live and video performance while exploring questions of self -image, gender constructs, cultural trauma, and environmental destruction and notions of beauty and power.
Her work often centred on Black women’s bodies.Her Afrofuturist worldscapes confront the pain and discourse of our time.
Her art work allowed her to release her anxiety following the 9/11 terrorists attacks. She created beautiful collages using paints, inks and cut-outs from magazines,
In 2003 she was invited to take part in a group exhibition with 12 other artists - a major turning point in her career.
In 2018 she created scuptures for the exterior niche of the facade for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
She is the founder of* Africa’s Out* a platform to* advance change through the power of art and activism.*
Wangechi has exhibited across the world, an artist attuned to some of the most complex nuances of the 21st century.
Sources
Wikipedia
RISE: Extraordinary Women of Colour Who Have Changed the World
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