Wangechi Mutu
Forbidden Fruit picker

Forbidden Fruit picker

© 2015 Wangechi Mutu

Forbidden Fruit picker
Forbidden Fruit picker
ArtistKenyan, born 1972
CultureKenyan
Titles
  • Forbidden Fruit picker
Date2015
MediumPhoto montage from printed sources, collage, spray paint, and cut fabric with ink on Mylar and paper board
Dimensions39 1/4 × 58 1/2 in. (99.7 × 148.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2016.81
Non exposé

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Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist; [Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2015]; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
Exhibition History"All The World’s Futures, 56th International Art Exhibition," Venice Biennale, May 9–November 22, 2015.

"On Common Ground," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 21, 2017–January 14, 2018.

"Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage," Frist Art Museum, Nashville, September 15–December 31, 2023; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 18–May 12, 2024. (OL.1672)
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
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Recto: Signed in ink, bottom right corner: Wangechi Mutu 2015

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