We are thrilled to announce that the artist, Wangechi Mutu, will be judging, the final round of the Saatchi Online Collage Showdown (submissions begin Dec. 12th). Wangechi has enjoyed numerous solo shows around the world and has been the recipient of several distinguished awards and grants (detailed bio below). Her bold, unique and imaginative work is an inspiration to us and we couldn’t be more pleased that she’s agreed to participate in the Saatchi Online Collage Showdown. Wangechi will personally select the first and second place winners. Both will receive a cash prize and will have their work exhibited in the Saatchi Gallery London.
Below please find a sampling of a few of her works. Be sure to click through for even more information: 
My Strength Lies courtesy of Saatchi Gallery. Copyright the artist.
Backlash Blues courtesy of Saatchi Gallery. Copyright the artist.
Cancer of the Uterus courtesy of Saatchi Gallery. Copyright the artist.
Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972, Nairobi, Kenya) has trained as both a sculptor and anthropologist. Her work explores the contradictions of female and cultural identity and makes reference to colonial history, contemporary African politics, and the international fashion industry. Major solo exhibitions include Montreal Museum of Modern Art (2012), Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2010); Gladstone Gallery, New York (2010); Performa 09, New York (2009); Kunsthalle Wien Museum, Vienna (2008); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (2005), and Art Pace, San Antonio (2004). Awards and grants include Deutsche Guggenheim Artist of the Year, Berlin (2010); Cooper Union Urban Visionaries Awards, Emerging Talent Award, New York (2008); The Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Award, New York (2007); and the Studio Museum in Harlem Artist in Residence, New York (2003).
WOW!! Absolutely beautiful surreal work! I LOVE it!! Well done!
Totally agree, great artist
Your posting really striaghented me out. Thanks!
Incredibly exciting work. She will make a great judge!
saw her work at the AGO in Toronto a while back! absolutely fantastic and so powerful . so much wanted to have a tour of her studio after seeing her interview. wouldn’t that be cool!
Great works, i like
She is the one to learn from
I’m full of gratitude and humbleness…
Saw her work here in Oregon… maybe at the Art Gym… all of it fantastic!
Absolutely beautiful surreal work! I LOVE it!! Well done!
A beautiful work. The image in pink, i like it.
Sorry, I don’t agree at all! Is this really Saatchi?! With a judge like that I don’t even dare to participate!
Horray to bad taste!
Touched by and angle at a very young age!
Touched by a What??? an ANGLE???? don’t you mean ANGEL?and if so don’t you know that Angel’s can be DEMONS in Disguise????I would rather say Touched by TALENT and Ability, maybe even Skill thru HARD Work and Practice…..we don’t give ourselves enough respect, Great Art can come from HARD WORK and not ANGELS…..peace
Very interesting Fine Art work! Good judge selection.
Just increadable.. thank you
Congratulations. He deserves the award. It is a stunning collage!
Felicidades!. Se merece el premio y el reconocimiento. Es un collage impresionante!!
Crap, Crap, Crap. Anyone can create this rubbish, she should create something of beauty,
You are quite right. But nowdays all that sells is crap.
anyone? go on then, have a go and publish your results.
Oh Steve Oh Steve
Oh that you could rescue us from this CRAP
Oh that you could bestow on us BEAUTY
Let me gently ease your eyeballs from your head so that we can see through them , as you see through them…
so that we can appreciate your vision of BEAUTY
Muy buen trabajo-Felicitaciones
Beautiful and appeals on so many levels…
to much detail
Very beautiful work, congrats!!
Wow!
One great artist that has been inspiring me many times!
i am thrilled!
You want to tell us that this is art????!!!!! People, wake up, do not full yourself!!!!Total crap….
Congratulations Saatchionline on winning this extraordinary Artist over to judge the next Showdown. Thank you for continuously raising the bar of quality and professionalism on this site, it is becoming a truely excellent platform for contemporary art.
actually most of what is on this site is mediocre at best and it all looks the same.
Take off the dark glasses honey!
DON’T TAKE OFF DARK GLASSES–PUT BLINDERS ON!
People who wear blinders, do not make good artists.
Love alot the work ‘cancer of the uterus
Like paintings “would bet they be much more powerful in person
‘interesting woman
Merrycareychristmasstockings off
Clbsmll
Good Morning Artist from Artist William V Wirz, Saatchionline.com or picasaweb.google.com/William.Switzerland.Berne
sorry, her work are those from a second class tracer – high pushed from one on the surface living jurors and mirror of a decadent society who doesnt car about soeriosity and quality
why dont you get off your high pony!
Her work is from a really strong stance, that has alot of depth and focus to it. Just because it’s not from your point of view, you can still appreciate it! And besides it is part of the art debate, which is important in the art world nowadays. We need artists from different angles to make things more interesting, art should be about bouncing off eachother, creating tension and challenging eachother.
Trained…… and it shows. Where is ” her” art
I do like Cancer of the uterus but the other works are not new to me,it looks a lot like illustration of children books.
Good luck, Wangechi Mutu!
Beautiful! (‘coz to the ‘point’..). Best wishes to you always
stunning
I know part of her work. I love it. Super!
Humanitarianism with Materialism, involved Japanese culture.
Life experiences are the visual practices.
This art leaves me cold. I am sure the artist is very charming but the work is appalling. How can this person be a judge? It is surrealist concoction of
ugly images that have a simple message. ~This has nothing to do with painting or Fine Art , it is truly depressing.
Elizabeth.
Absolutely greats! Congratulations.
good artwork….,Impression …!!!
Great works, i love it ! Congratulation!
penso che l’Arte, dovrebbe creare sensazioni ed emozioni, toccando lo spirito di chi osserva
I think that art should create feelings and emotions, touching the soul of the beholder
Very depressing imagery. Too busy, too much message. I prefer art of beauty.
Sick of political victim art.
Very depressing imagery. Too much message. Too busy. I prefer art of beauty.
Sick of political victim art.
Outstanding work
Great work
simple, true picture of reality
Beautiful and wonderful work
Cancer of the uterus: In my opinion artists have to fight the spirit that enslaves human beings all over the world. And this is really an amazing work in the right direction. Well done!
Wangechi Mutu fine artist. These works can be read like a book. Cancer of the uterus is simply amazing, so the material can only feel a woman. Bravo!
PUKE
These are stunning pieces and even before reading anything about them I am dazzled visually, which I keep reminding myself is really the point! I am sure they will be more interesting with more info, though…
I think that she is very good artist . I like that she has a lot of movement in her work and interesting colors and design. But I am simply… terrified by her work!
But still it is an extaordinary work and I am sure that are more people who agree with me.
Sorry, Georgianna, the point is not to be “terrific”, is does not to have anything new neither inteligent. What becomes the Mutu’s work “terrific” is the lack of thought and skill; because it is possible to treat the awful with mastery, making it to seem like something beautiful, making us forget the departure point… It is not easy, I recognize.
Art may be a mean for making catharsis… but it is need to know how to make it, or we stay worse than before
My apologies, Georgianna
In my opinion she is a good artist with interesting color and design too!
But in my case she is gausing terror! maybe it is her meaning.
And i supose that are more people that are going to get the same feeling!
God bless us!
God has not anything to see with this, Georgianna
. At this moment He has not any knowing on our movements; He lost the command… I think! 
Stay calm, Georgianna, because we are close of the Final Judgement
My apologies once more.
Esta artista, está, antes de mais a ter reconhecimento através do seu extraordinário trabalho, que espelha bem, o tempo que atravessamos e onde nos podemos rever cada vez mais no nosso dia-a-dia.
É, em meu ver, um trabalho muito original, com as características das metamorfoses por onde nos estamos a mover.
Acho que o poder da arte, é isso mesmo, atravessa os tempos independentemente do estado a que estamos sujeitos e é visível nestas obras,
ver um mundo em constante mudança.
É a vida e o respirar deste planeta, que no fundo nos move a todos, fazendo assim os acontecimentos, as novas formas de vida.
Cabe a cada um de nós entende-lo, e fazer por ele também um pouco mais e melhor.
know part of her work. I love it
Remarkable.
Vasco Torres
You cannot give a mark to any artwork out of 100 and you cannot say this art has superior value to that artwork as its all subjective which is the point of art. Art competitions are meaningless as people voting for a picture more than others does not make it the best just most voted for and there is no best.
If there was we could say which was the best painting or drawing in the world or in any exhibition and we cannot as everyones minds and eyes look differently.
Its Art not science remember. My preference is cheerful art.
I think that the work of this artist is remarkable.
Vasco Torres
Well, artificially dumped gar bitch, Muto is vagina – maniacal.
remarquable expression .
Imagination and visual experimentation but, in my opinion, Mrs Mutu image is amazing, a nice portrait.
Like it so much !!! Very impressive really !!
Dear Sirs,
I wish it was possible to send my commentary for specified person or persons, somebody who could respond for criterias of this kind of events, once the judgements —as sequence of responsible thought— must not be dependent from only an emotional perspective.
When we are talking about art, we are talking about something serious, whether we are refering to the classical, say, or the modern movements. Anyway, we always ought to impose to ourselves some reasonable analysis; to be new, —and it is not the Wangechi Mutu case— is not enough; it is need to see in it that authors are thinking on their work, that they have a philosophy, thoughts which they can express, given the artists have to have a pedagogical intervention.
Anything is most impressive than to see somebody in difficulties. However, difficulties are not the end, the wished arrival point; they are natural obstacles along our growing up, and, respectfully, I have to say that Wangechi Mutu is not prepared to be judge in an art competition, even if we think about an art competition as something with lots and lots of problems: mixing immiscible actions, as if it was possible to compare and decide who is the best runner, Bolton or Schumacher, when we are talking on different areas. We can, of course, to discuss which of them is better sportsman, because in each one of them we will see good or bad ways of thinking, once the sportsman —like the artist— is not only the technician, but the reflected set by thoughts and gestures, which we can find out in the same person…
I’m sure that humanity’s behaviours have to be reformulated, not only in terms merely economical, but, above all, in termes of thinking, because nobody can be rescued if is permanently playing games of luck and misfortune.
My apologies, but I have no anything against modernity, but against pseudo-modernity, once anything will be really modern if it has not, as fundamental support, the Thought.
Les divers travaux qui sont présentés lors de ces nombreuses exhibitions ne sont, à mon, goût, pas très souvent heureuses voire plutôt tristes.
I just had a total hysterectemy and have also been eating a lot of black rasberries. I don’t know if I can eat them anymore after seeing Mutu’s collage. It is quite stunning.
Mr Costa, you are not making any sense whatsoever.
I love this! It is so free in it’s expression. It is so accesible in it’s way. The boundaries are broken so tastefully. It appeals to all my senses and broadens the horizons for art.. This artist is a true visionary. This work is very cool,profound , beautiful and honest. May God bless this work
Powerful arresting images -yes, surrreal
Just another load of nausea-inducing cheap crap being pushed as a ‘high art’, – typical of Saatchi selection, the worse, the better.
Also, ‘contemporary modern’ is now a synonime for revoltingly depressive trash?
Is this for real? A recognised Artist ? Methinks not, absolute rubbish.
Quelle mauvaise traduction de mon court texte du 10/12, c’est inimaginable. Il vaudrait mieux ne pas traduire dans de telles conditions.
Je veux dire que la traduction est d’aussi mauvais goût que les oeuvres qui sont présentées., ce n’est pas agréable à regarder.,c’est déprimant.
Je remarque l’absence de la peinture Française, c’est dommage, elle enrichirait les présentations de vos cimaises. Il n’y a donc pas d’artistes de qualité outre Manche ? Ou de l’autre côté de l’Atlantique? Bizarre!
Il faut certes mettre l’art à la portée de tous, cela ne parait pas être le souci de la Gallery Saatchi,qui devrait s’inspirer des présentations qui sont faites ailleurs dans le Monde et notamment aux Musées du Louvre et d’Orsay en France , pour ne citer que ceux-là.
very beautiful work
What wonderful work!
Absolutely beautiful! professional handling,excelent positioning and very imaginative.Technically again well handled.all are very very beautiful I particularly love backlash blues;great sincerely yours,Andrew Radkowsky.
hey girl
finaly a new vision with roots
carla egerer
Miraculous …..rarely seen such a meritorious art ..work with super colors & subject … resulting …GREAT effect…Hearty congrats ….
i generate Eco friendly Art……. Basant Soni
Me parece todo perfecto.
I think that your work has the good taste’s sensitivity, and the authenticity needed to represent the miseries of the human being. You will judge honestly. And what is life if not an eternal test to the final judgment?
Wow….Powerrrrrrrr…..Bravo!!!
As my son just said it looks like a 5 year old made those pictures.
Crikey what a load of rubbish!
WHY!!!!!!! why this way?!!!! (to say- to show)
Amazing work in my opinion
Interesting art
Hmmmmmm.
Congratulations on making it into the big named galleries. Don’t ask how you did it, because I can not see anything interesting in your art.
Sorry for the negative post, i tried in vain to delete it. You don’t need to hear my opinion.
A show of the power of finance over quality, the power of status over purity of the artistic line, the industrialization of art over artists and their savoir faire. Saatchi is doing the same. The top galleries in the art markets are speculating on art and artists. The interesting art scene are the edgy side galleries the ones that sometimes spot the rare talents. Artists can lose their way with global fame, by being oliged to overproduce and even lower their standards by having to reach deadlines. Just like the trash bonds, the economic scandals, the facades of finance, art will suffer the global reality where quality and inovative work will float up again through the mists of over instructed curators who have simply no eyes or worse no idea.