Wangechi Mutu is a Kenyan-American artist born in 1972. She has lived and established her career in New York for more than twenty years. Mutu’s work has directed the female body as subject through collage painting, immersive installation, and live and video performance all while exploring questions of self-image, gender constructs, cultural trauma, and environmental destruction. She was born in Nairobi, and was educated at Loreto Convent Msongari, then later studied at the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales. She then moved to New York in the 1990s and studied Fine Arts and Anthropology at the New School for Social Research and Parsons School of Art and Design. Many of her collages are works with mylar or medical journals, with ink, acrylic paint, and materials like pearls. Her artwork depicts several years of violence and misrepresentation of women, mostly black women. As well as the perceptions and expectations of black women in society, and the disjointed image of African culture. Her works also include the various depictions of femininity, using the feminine subject in her art, even when the figures are more or less unrecognisable, whether by using the form itself or the texture and the patterns the figure is made from.