Meet the Artist— Wangechi Mutu

Artist Wangechi Mutu reflects on Egon Schiele in this episode of The Artist Project.

February 29, 2016

3 min. watch

From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"He has clarity in his humanness, in his present-ness: ‘I'm here, right now, and not for long.’"

Artist Wangechi Mutu reflects on Egon Schiele in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Wangechi Mutu is an artist and sculptor.

Wangechi Mutu (American, born Kenya, 1972)

One Hundred Lavish Months of Bushwhack, 2004

Cut-and-pasted printed paper with watercolor, synthetic polymer paint, and pressure-sensitive stickers on transparentized paper; 68 1/2 × 42 in. (174 × 106.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, Fund for the Twenty-First Century (99.2005) © Wangechi Mutu / Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY