Kehinde Wiley Los Angeles, United States, b. 1977
Lives and works in New York and Beijing.
Kehinde Wiley has a bachelor’s degree in fine art from Yale University and a master’s degree from the San Francisco Art Institute. Wiley is a portrait painter known for his highly naturalistic paintings of African Americans. His colorful portraits, based on photographs of young men whom Wiley sees on the street, engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic and the sublime in his representation of urban, black and brown men found throughout the world.
His solo exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; The Jewish Museum, New York; Gallery Daniel Templon, Paris; Apparel Design Gallery, Berlin; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Portland Art Museum, Portland; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, and many others. Select group exhibitions include Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul; Los Angeles Museum of Art; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
Wiley’s work may be also found in the public collections of the United States such as The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles; County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minnesota and Oak Park Library, Illinois.
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