Kehinde Wiley

The artist

Born in 1977 in Los Angeles, Kehinde Wiley lives and works in New York. Examining issues of racial and sexual identity, his works create collisions where art history and street culture come face to face. The artist makes eroticised heroes of the invisible, those traditionally banished from representations of power. His work reinterprets the vocabulary of power and prestige, part politically-charged critique, part an avowed fascination with the luxury and bombast of Western symbols of male domination.


Exhibitions

Biography

Birth Born in 1977 in Los Angeles, CA, USA
Residence Live and work in New York, Dakar and Beijing
Education 2001 - MFA, Yale University, School of Art, New Haven, USA
1999 - BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2024 Dédale du pouvoir, Musée des Civilisations Noires, Dakar, Senegal
Kehinde Wiley: An Archaelogy of Silence, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/ Pérez Art Museum, Miami/ Minneapolis Institute of Art, USA
2023 Dédale du pouvoir, musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac - Traveling exhibition, Paris, France
Kehinde Wiley: An Archaelogy of Silence, de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA
Kehinde Wiley in Portrait of Courage: Gentileschi, Wiley and the Story of Judith, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA
2022 Lectures contemporaines : Kehinde Wiley, An Archaeology of Silence, musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
An Archaeology of Silence, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, La Biennale collateral event, Venice, Italy
The Obama Portraits Tour - Traveling exhibition, High Museum of Art, Atlanta ; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
2021 Kehinde Wiley, National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
The Obama Portraits Tour – exposition itinérante, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago ; Brooklyn Museum, New-York ; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
2020 Kehinde Wiley, peintre de l'épopée, Centre d’Art La Malmaison, Cannes, France
Kehinde Wiley: The Yellow Wallpaper, William Morris gallery, Walthamstow, United Kingdom
New York Kehinde Wiley: Ship of Fools, The Box, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Jacques-Louis David meets Kehinde Wiley, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
2019 Kehinde Wiley rencontre Jacques-Louis David, Château de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, France

Kehinde Wiley : Tahiti, Galerie Templon, Paris, France

Portrait Équestre du Prince Tommaso
of Savoy-Carignan, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA
2018 Kehinde Wiley: Lit, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Kehinde Wiley: Saint Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, USA 

Spotlight — Selections from Kehinde Wiley’s, The World Stage : Israël, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, USA

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2017 In Search Of The Miraculous, Stephen Friedman, London, United Kingdom
Trickster, Sean Kelly, New York, USA 

Kehinde Wiley : A New Republic, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, USA
2016 Lamentation, Petit Palais, Paris, France Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA
2015 Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, USA
2014 A New Republic, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Kehinde Wiley : Memling, Taft Museum, Cincinnati, USA 

The World Stage : Haiti, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA
Shaq loves people, the flag art foundation, Chicago, USA
2013 Kehinde Wiley : Memling, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA
The World Stage : Israël, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; The Boise Art Museum, Boise, USA 

The World Stage : Jamaica, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2012 The World Stage : France, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
The World Stage : Israël, the Jewish Museum, New York, USA 

An Economy of Grace, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
2011 The World Stage : Israël, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA
Kehinde Wiley : Selected Works, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA
2010 The World Stage : India - Sri Lanka, Rhona Ho man Gallery, Chicago, USA
Kehinde Wiley : Legends of Unity World Cup 2010 PUMA, Apparel Design Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Topographie de l’Art, Paris, France
Deitch Projects, New York, USA
Elms Lesters, London, United Kingdom
UCCA, Beijing, China
2009 The World Stage : Brazil, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA
The World Stage : Africa, Lagos-Dakar, Artpace, San Antonio, USA
2008 The World Stage : Africa, Lagos-Dakar, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA 

Down, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
Focus : Kehinde Wiley, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, USA
2007 Kehinde Wiley, Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
The World Stage : Chine, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, USA
2006 Scenic, Rhona Ho man Gallery, Chicago, USA
Columbus, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus ; Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA
Kehinde Wiley, Sorry, We’re Closed, Brussels, Belgium
2005 Rumors of War, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
White, Conner Contemporary,
Washington, USA
2004 Passing/Posing The Paintings of Kehinde Wiley, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, USA 

Easter Realness, Rhona Ho man Gallery, Chicago, USA
2003 Faux/Real, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
Pictures at an Exhibition, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA
2002 Passing/Posing, Rhona Ho man Gallery, Chicago, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2024 faire corps, Fondation Villa Datris, Paris, France
Giants : Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Expérience Raphaël, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France
Au bout de mes rêves, La Tripostal, Lille, France
2023 The Day I Saw You, Fundacion AMMA, Mexico
Generation*. Jagend trotz(t) Krise, Kunsthalle Bremen, Brême, Germany
2022 Inauguration de La Cité du Vitrail, Troyes, France
La prochaine fois, le feu - Kehinde Wiley & Alexandre Diop, Mentorship 2022, Reiffers Art initiatives, Acacias Art Center, Paris, France
Lux et Veritas, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Floride, USA
Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA
Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
2021 30 Americans, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, USA
Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, USA
2020 Memling Now, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges, Belgium
Black Refractions : Selections from The Studio Museum in Harlem, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington : Smith College, Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA
Impart Collectors’ Show, School of the Arts, Singapore
TEXTURES : The History and Art of Black Hair, Kent State University Museum, Kent, Ohio, USA
The Shape of Abstraction: Selections from the Ollie Collection, Saint Louis Museum of Art, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Queen: From the Collection of CCH Pounder, The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit, Michigan, USA
2019 Kehinde Wiley in 30 Americans, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
Kehinde Wiley, Marina Abramović, Joseph Kosuth, and Kris Martin in Icons: Worship and Adoration, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Dawoud Bey and Kehinde Wiley in Afrocosmologies: American Reflections, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA
Street Dreams : how hip hop took over fashion, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Comeback, Art historical renaissance in contemporary art, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
On Their Own Terms, Windgate Centre of Art and Design, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, USA
30 Americans, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, États-Unis
Dreamweavers, United Talent Agency Artist Space, Los Angeles, USA
Beyond Truth : Photography after the Shutter, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton; Frye Art Museum, Seattle; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, USA
2018 30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection, The Clay Center, Charleston; Mcnay Art Museum, San Antonio, USA
America’s Presidents, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
Beyond Borders: Global Africa, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA
Breaking the Mold: Investigating Gender, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA
Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground, Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Go Figure, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, USA
Money with a Capital “M”, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel

Reclamation! Pan African Works from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, USA
RESPECT: Hip-Hop Style & Wisdom, Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), Oakland, USA
Talisman in the Age of Di erence, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Michael Jackson: On the Wall, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom 

The World’s Game: Footbol and Contemporary Art, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, USA
Rayski und die Jagd, Albertinum Museum, Dresde, Germany
Par amour du jeu 1998-2018, Magasins Généraux, Pantin, France

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2017 Art vs. Fetishism or The Utility of Idolatry, Pan American Art Projects, Miami, USA
30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma
Africa Pop Studio, Tang, Saratoga Springs, USA
All Things Being Equal..., Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
Harlem: Found Ways, The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Selected, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
The Human Form, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2016 Open This End : Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York : Ronna and Eric Ho man Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Lewis & Clark College, Portland, USA
40 Years Part 2: Gender. Race. Identity., Rhona Ho man Gallery, Chicago, United States
A Material Legacy: The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection of Contemporary Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, USA
“BIG”, Bill Hodges Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
Turn the Page: The First Ten Years of Hi-Fructose, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, USA
30 Americans, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA
Contemporary Art, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, USA
In Context: Africans in America, Goodman Gallery and Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

Remix, Columbia Museum of Art,
Columbia, USA
Uncommon Likeness: Identity in Flux,
Lincoln, USA
Versus Rodin: Bodies across space and time, The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaïde, Australia

You go to my head, Galerie Templon,
Brussels, Belgium
2015 Reality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, USA
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham; Ohio State University Arts Space, Columbus, USA
In Pro le: Portraits from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum of Harlem,
New York, USA
The Rise of Sneaker Culture, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
Portraiture Through the Ages, Agnews,
London, United Kingdom
I Like It Like This, Sotheby’s, New York, USA
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Rush20: 1995-2015, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
Fifteen x Fifteen, Bill Hodges Gallery,
Brooklyn, USA
30 Americans, Detroit Institute of Arts,
Detroit, USA
2014 Black Eye, Concept NV, New York, USA
History, Bill Hodges Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
Africa Now: Political Patterns, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Study from the Human Body, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Somos Libres II, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
Masculine / Masculine. The Nude Man in Art from 1800 to the Present Day, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
Footbol: The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Face to Face, Wall to Wall, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, USA
History, Bill Hodges Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
Forms of Attraction: Kjaerholm, Tenreiro and Selected Works, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Other Ways; Other Times: In uences of African- American Tradition from St. Louis Collections, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, USA
The Figure in Process: de Kooning to Kapoor, 1955-2015, Pivot Art + Culture, Seattle, USA
2013 Les Aventures de la Vérité, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
Masculin / Masculin. L’homme nu dans l’art : de 1800 à nos jours, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France
Through the Eyes of Texas: Masterworks from Alumni Collections, The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA
30 Americans, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA
2012 Looped, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, USA
The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection, RedLine Gallery, Denver; The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA
The Soul of a City: Memphis Collects African American Art, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, USA
30 Americans, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, United States
All I Want is a Picture of You, Angles Gallery,
Los Angeles, USA
BAILA con Duende, Watts Towers Arts Center and Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center Campus, Los Angeles, USA
The Bearden Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
2011 Parallel Perceptions, New York City Opera, New York, USA
Who, What, Wear: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, USA
Capital Portraits: Treasures from Washington Private Collections, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
Becoming: Photographs from the Wedge Collection, The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, USA
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, USA
Beyond Bling: Voices of Hip-Hop in Art, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, USA
30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
For a Long Time, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA
RE-Envisioning the Baroque, I.D.E.A. at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, USA
2010 Size Does Matter, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Passion Fruits, Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany

The Global Africa Project Exhibition, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Personal Identities: Contemporary Portraits, Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, United States 

Pattern ID, Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA
Individual to Icon: Portraits of the Famous and Almost Famous from Folk Art to Facebook, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, USA
30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, United States 

The Gleaners: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Sarah and Jim Taylor,
Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver School of Art, Denver, USA
Wild Thing, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA
Summer Surprises, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place,
176 Zabludowicz Collection, London,
United Kingdom

Searching for the Heart of Black Identity:
Art and the Contemporary African American Experience, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, USA
From Then to Now: Masterworks Contemporary African American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
2009 Recon guring the Body in American Art, 1820-2009, National Academy Museum, New York, USA
Creating Identity: Portraits, Today 21C Museum, Louisville, USA
Other People: Portraits from Grunwald and Hammer Collections, Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles, USA
Enchantment, Joselo Gallery, Hartford, USA
2008 30 Americans, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Macrocosm, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA
21: Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
Selected Drawings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
Down, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Detroit, USA
2007 New York States of Mind, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, USA
Crossing the Line: African American Artists in the Jacqueline Bradley and Clarence Otis Jr. Collection, Cornell Fine Arts Museum,
Orlando, USA
Commemorating 30 Years (1976 – 2007): Part Three (1991 – 2007), Rhona Ho man Gallery, Chicago, USA
The Blake Byrne Collection, The Nasher Museum of Contemporary Art, Duke University, Durham, USA
2006 Do Not Stack, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA
Black Alphabet: ConTEXTS of Contemporary African-American Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Varsovie, Poland

Down By Law, Wrong Gallery, Sondra Gilman Gallery, Whitney Museum, New York, USA
Hangar-7 Edition 4, Salzburg Airport,
Salzburg, Austria

Rede ned: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Relics and Remnants, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, New York, USA
2005 Maximum Flavor, ACA Gallery, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, USA
Neo-Baroque, Tema Celeste, Verona, Italia Neovernacular, Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Kehinde Wiley/Sabeen Raja: New Paintings, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, USA
2004 Eye of the Needle, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA
Glory, Glamour & Gold, The Proposition, New York, USA
She’s Come Undone, Greenberg Van Doren, New York, USA
The New York Mets and Our National Pastime, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, USA
Beauty, Kravets + Wehby, New York, USA
African American Artists in Los Angeles,
A Survey Exhibition: Fade, City of Los Angeles Cultural A airs Department, Los Angeles, USA
2003 Praha Biennale 1: Peripheries Become the Center, National Gallery, Veletrzni Palac, Praha, République Tchèque

Superreal, Marella, Milan, Italy
New Wave, Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York, USA
Re: Figure, The Guhlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, USA
2002 Painting as Paradox, Artists Space, New York, USA
Mass Appeal, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada Ironic/ Iconic, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, USA
Black Romantic, The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, USA
2001 It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop, Rush Arts, New York, USA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

21C Museum, Louisville, USA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA
Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, USA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

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High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Kansas City Art Museum, Kansas City, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, USA
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, United States 

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
Fort Worth, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Nasher Museum of Art, Chapel Hill, USA
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, USA
Oak Park Library, Chicago, USA
Oklahoma City Museum of Art,
Oklahoma, USA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, USA
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, USA
Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, USA
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, USA
The Flag Art Foundation, New York, USA
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
The Sender Collection, New York, USA
The Stained Glass Museum, South Triforium, Ely, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
The Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, USA
The Zabludowicz Collection, Londres, United Kingdom

Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, USA
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, USA

PROJECTS

2021 Go, installation permanente, The Moynihan Train Hall, Penn Station, New York, USA
2019 Monumental bronze equestrian statue, Times Square, New York, USA
Black Rock Senegal, Dakar, Senegal
2018 Portrait officiel du Président Barack Obama, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
2014 Modern Kings of Culture, a collaboration with Grey Goose
Iconic, 26th Annual ADAA Show
Kehinde Wiley : An Economy of Grace, documentary film
FIFA World Cup Brazil Official Art Print Edition
2011 Chuck Close & Kehinde Wiley: Art Adds 2, Taxicab project, Art Production Fund, New York, USA
Parallel Perceptions, New York City Opera Project
2009 PUMA World Cup project - PUMA
Africa collection
2006 Nike Billboard Project, Los Angeles, USA

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2005 VH1 Hip Hop Honors Awards
Infiniti in Black, advertising campagn
BET Awards, Entry of Paris of the Dauphin

AWARDS

2020 Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA
2019 Gordon Parks Foundation Award

2018 W.E.B Du Bois Medal

2015 The US State Department Medal of Arts
2014 The Brooklyn Museum Asher B. Durand Award for Artistic Achievement
2013 American Federation for Arts Cultural Leadership Award
2012 Pratt Legend Award

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2011 New York City Art Teachers Association/United Federation of Teachers, Artist of the Year Award

Canteen Magazine, Artist of the Year Award

2010 États-Unis Network, Character Approved Award
2008 Americans for the Arts, Young Artist Award for Artistic Excellence

2002 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Recipient
Studio Museum Harlem, Artist in Residence

Press Release

Widewalls - December, 2023

MFAH Opens Archaeology of Silence, Kehinde Wiley's Monumental Body of Work

Le Figaro - October, 2023

Kehinde Wiley, mettre l'identité noire sur le piédestal

Valérie Duponchelle

Le Monde - October, 2023

Kehinde Wiley, portraitiste des puissants d'Afrique

Philippe Dagen


Télérama - October, 2023

Autocrates en majesté

Charlotte Fauve

Connaissance des arts - October, 2023

Kehinde Wiley sème le doute au musée du quai Branly

Télérama - September, 2023

Le Quai Branly célèbre Kehinde Wiley et ses portraits de chefs d'État africains


Artnet - September, 2023

See Kehinde Wiley's New Suite of Presidential Portraits That Depict African Heads of State With an Ornate 'Vocabulary of Power'

The New York Times - September, 2023

Presidential Portraits by Kehinde Wiley, This Time From Africa

Dionne Searcey

The New York Times - March, 2023

Kehinde Wiley's New Exhibition Is a Chapel of Mourning


The New Yorker - janvier 2023

The painter and his court

Julian Lucas

Beaux Arts Magazine - octobre 2022

Kehinde Wiley à Orsay

Sarah Belmont

Beaux Arts Magazine - juin 2022

En marge de la biennale


Vogue - juin 2022

Inside Kehinde Wiley's Opulent Artist Residence - and the New African Renaissance

Alice Kemp-Habib

Le Monde - mai 2022

Art: Kehinde Wiley dévoile une "archéologie du silence" sur fond de Black Lives Matter

Point de Vue - mai 2022

Les dormeurs du val

Christophe Leribault


WhiteWall - mai 2022

Whitewaller Venice 2022: Top Exhibitions

Erica Silverman

The New York Times - avril 2022

Looking Inward, and Back at a Biennale for the History Books

Jason Farago

Forbes - avril 2022

Venice Biennale 2022: Highlights From The Olympics of The Art World


Le Figaro - avril 2022

Le retour de la biennale d'art de Venise

Le Quotidien de l'Art - avril 2022

Biennale off: Venise à tout prix

The Art Newspaper Daily - février 2022

Entretien : Kehinde Wiley dévoile ses influences

Ben Luke


Financial Times - janvier 2022

Artist Kehinde Wiley

Enuma Okoro

Town And Country Mag - décembre 2021

Kehinde Wiley on His Pandemic Portraits

The New York Times - december 2020

Let There Be Light, and Art, in the Moynihan Train Hall

Dionne Searcey


La Croix - octobre 2020

Les portraits engagés de Kehinde Wiley

Coralie Bonnefoy

Artension - septembre/octobre 2020

Kehinde Wiley, l'épopée noire

Fred Baitinger

Le Point - août 2020

Cannes joue la carte de l'art

Brigitte Hernandez


Le Monde - août 2020

Kehinde Wiley, la fabrique à icônes noires

Philippe Dagen

ArtDaily - juillet 2020

Exhibition at Centre d'Art de la Malmaison presents over 20 epic work

The New York Times - février 2020

Two Napoeleons in Brooklyn one in Timberlands

Jason Farago


Artsy.net - décembre 2019

The 10 Moments That Definied Art in the 2010s

The Guardian.com - décembre 2019

Virginia museum unveils Kehinde Wiley work

Araceli Cruz

BBC.COM - octobre 2019

Kehinde Wiley: Gauguin's strang, beautiful and exploitative portraits

Holly Williams


Outremers360.com - octobre 2019

Kehinde Wiley au Château Malmaison

Blouin Modern Painters - 2019

Kehinde Wiley : the beautiful and the terrible

Aymeric Mantoux

Portfolio - juillet 2019

Painting Black Lives - Kehinde Wiley

Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle


Artnet.com - juin 2019

A Monumental Bronze Equestrian Statue in Times Square

Blouinartinfo.com - juin 2019

Kehinde Wiley The beautiful and terrible

Figaro Hors série - juin 2019

Dans les galeries flâner a du bon: Kehinde Wiley

S. De S.


NY times - juin 2019

Kehinde Wiley (and His Infinity Pool) are ready to spoil artists

Dionne Searcey

Financial times - mai 2019

Island idyll seen through a fresh lens

La Gazette Drouot - mai 2019

Kehinde Wiley, Tahiti

Henri-François Debailleux


Vice.com - mai 2019

Kehinde Wiley's new show celebrates the transgender women of Tahiti

Sarah Moroz

The Art News Paper (France) - mai 2019

Bonaparte come to brooklyn

Gareth Harris

Némuro.com - mai 2019

Kehinde Wiley immortalise le troisième genre en Polynésie

Yasmine Lahrichi


M Le Magazine - mai 2019

Le peintre américain, Kehinde Wiley

Roxana Azimi

Artsy.net - avril 2019

Vibrant New Artist Residency in Senegal

Scott Indrisek

Architectural Digest - avril 2019

Kehinde Wiley

Nadja Sayej


Conaissances des Arts - mai 2019

Le portrait selon Kehinde Wiley

V de M.

Glamour - avril-mai 2019

Avant - première : Aux sombres héros

The Guardian - janvier 2019

Kehinde Wiley

Nadja Sayej


The New York Times - février 2018

A Blend of Paint, Fact and Fiction

Holland Cotter

Elephant Magazine - décembre 2017

With the same loving hand


The New York Times - octobre 2017

Why the Obamas' portrait matter

Roberta Smith

La Gazette Drouot - novembre 2016

Kehinde Wiley : Lamentation

Alain Quemin

Telerama sortir - novembre 2016

La vierge en streetwear

S.Si.


Le Figaro - novembre 2016

Quand l'art voit le monde en noir

Valerie Duponchelle


Madame Figaro - octobre 2015

Brookly, bouillon de culture

Going for baroque

Paul Laster

"I try to create a place of disorientation" - itw with Kehinde Wiley

Anna Savitskaya


Artforum - janvier 2015

Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic

Nick Stillman

New-York Times - janvier 2015

Kehinde Wiley Puts a Classical Spin on His Contemporary Subjects

Deborah-Solomon

The Washington Post - octobre 2014

Kehinde Wiley explains his "An Economy of Grace" paintings

Erin Williams


Diptyk - juin 2013

Kehinde Wiley : Black Remix

GQ - avril 2013

Kehinde the first

Martin Schoeller

Artpress - janvier 2013

Kehinde Wiley

Julie Crenn


Kehinde Wiley

Brian Keith Jackson

African kings

Soline Delos

Fjords Review.com - november 2012

The Louvre Relocates to Africa

Erik Martiny


Esse - 2010

Bling-bling everytime I come around

Fabien Loszach

Frieze - octobre 2008

Kehinde Wiley: Portraits, patterns and fashion

Jenni Sorkin

News

Kehinde Wiley
A MAZE OF POWER – DAKAR

Solo Show

Museum of Black Civilizations, Dakar
From May 15 to June 30, 2024

The Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar is hosting the exhibition Kehinde Wiley – A maze of power, originally organised by the Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac. The exhibition, which opens tomorrow, is devoted to a series of eleven portraits of African heads of state – an exploratory project, still in process, around the representation of power, on which the painter has been working confidentially since 2012.

Kehinde Wiley
REES VISIONARY AWARD

Récompense

Artball, Brooklyn
4 mai, 2024

Amref Health Africa (Amref), la plus importante organisation africaine de soins de santé au monde, rendra hommage à l’artiste afro-américain Kehinde Wiley lors de son événement ArtBall 2024. Kehinde Wiley est notamment connu pour ses portraits qui représentent des personnes de couleur dans le cadre traditionnel des tableaux de maîtres anciens, y compris son sujet le plus célèbre, Barack Obama, pour la National Portrait Gallery. Le prix Rees Visionary Award de l’Amref, nommé d’après son fondateur, le Dr Thomas Rees, récompense les personnes qui ont modifié le discours sur l’art africain et noir.

Kehinde Wiley
AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF SILENCE – HOUSTON

Solo Show

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
From November 19, 2023 to May 27, 2024

Kehinde Wiley’s solo show An Archaeology of Silence is opening its doors on November 19, 2023 at The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. The traveling exhibition of a monumental body of work, with large-scale paintings and sculptures, premiered earlier this year at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Michael Ray Charles
Kehinde Wiley
SPIKE LEE: CREATIVE SOURCES

Group show

Brooklyn Museum
Until February 4, 2024

On the occasion of the group exhibition Spike Lee: Creative Sources, Michael Ray Charles and Kehinde Wiley are exhibiting their works at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. An immersive installation of objects drawn from Spike Lee’s personal collection of artworks by prominent Black American artists.

Jitish Kallat
Iván Navarro
Sudarshan Shetty
Kehinde Wiley
AU BOUT DE MES RÊVES

Group show

Tripostal, Lilles
Until January 14, 2024

On the occasion of the group exhibition Au bout de mes rêves, Jitish Kallat, Iván Navarro, Surdashan Shetty and Kehinde Wiley are exhibiting their works at the Tripostal in Lille. The exhibition, organised by the Vanhaerents family, well known Belgian collectors, is a powerful statement on current social issues.

Kehinde Wiley
A MAZE OF POWER

Solo Show

Musée du quai Branly, Paris
From September 26, 2023 to January 14, 2024

Kehinde Wiley’s solo show A Maze of Power opens on September 26, 2023 at musée du quai Branly in Paris.

Kehinde Wiley
THE TWO SISTERS

Permanent Collection

Cincinnati Art Museum, USA

The artwork The Two Sisters by Kehinde Wiley joined the permanent collection of Cincinnati Art Museum.

Kehinde Wiley
SOLO SHOW – KEHINDE WILEY IN PORTRAIT OF COURAGE: GENTILESCHI, WILEY, AND THE STORY OF JUDITH

Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA
From January 25 to April 16, 2023

Two paintings depicting the Old Testament story of Judith slaying Holofernes—one by 17th-century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi and the other by contemporary American artist Kehinde Wiley—will continue their national tour at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, from January 25, 2023.