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

Tahiti – Kehinde Wiley

May 18 - July 24, 2019
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare
The World Stage : France, 1880 – 1960

October 27 - December 28, 2012
Paris - Beaubourg

Biography

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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)

2026	See It Now : Contemporary Art from the Ann and Mel Schaffer Collection, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
2025	Dédale du pouvoir.A Maze of Power, Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rabat, Morocco
	Flourish, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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

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	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
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)

2025	Flowers. Art from the Renaissance to Augmented Reality, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy
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

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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
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

ARTE - April 2026

Yes We Can - L'art noir contemporain

The New York Times - February 2026

Trump wants Smithsonian to Create a Different Official Portrait

Zachary Small & Robin Pogrebin

Connaissance des arts - October 2025

Marché de l'art : pourquoi le portrait fascine-t-il toujours en 2025 ?

Alexandre Crochet

Forbes - juillet 2025

Kehinde Wiley: De coups de pinceaux en coups d'éclats

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

News

Kehinde Wiley
COMEBACK. ART HISTORICAL RENAISSANCE IN CONTEMPORARY ART – GROUP SHOW

KUNSTHALLE TÜBINGEN, TÜBIGEN, GERMANYFrom 20/07/2019 to 10/11/2019

Art history is making a comeback in the visual arts. Artists not only copy and appropriate paintings from bygone eras, but also respond more freely and playfully to the “mnemic energies” (Aby Warburg) stored in ancient works. More and more frequently, they try to summon up the collective heritage through performative strategies as well as through photographic and cinematic media.

Kehinde Wiley
INCARNATIONS, AFRICAN ART AS PHILOSPHY – GROUP SHOW

PALAIS DES BEAUX ARTS, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM From 28/06/2019 to 06/10/2019

IncarNations is an exhibition designed by South African artist Kendell Geers in dialogue with Congolese collector Sindika Dokolo. An exciting initiative that reflects the diversity of African aesthetic heritage, stripped of any Eurocentric prism and including the influence of diasporas, slave routes, colonialism or independence movements. From the impressive collection of Sindika Dokolo, the productions of African artists resonate with those of the diaspora while contemporary works of art will be presented alongside classical works, finally opening the way to the unveiling of African art, understood as a living philosophical practice.

Kehinde Wiley
“STREET DREAMS: HOW HIP HOP TOOK OVER FASHION” – GROUP SHOW

KUNSTHAL, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS From 15/06/2019 to 15/09/2019

In collaboration with the HipHopHuis and guest curator Lee Stuart, the Kunsthal Rotterdam presents an exhibition about hip-hop and its influence on fashion and lifestyle. Streetwear is dictating the speed and aesthetics of the fashion industry and changing how that industry is developing itself. The exhibition ‘Street Dreams. How Hiphop took over Fashion’ shows the looks, the codes and the creative energy of hip-hop.

David LaChapelle
Kehinde Wiley
MICHAEL JACKSON: ON THE WALL – GROUP SHOW

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, LONDON, UK From 28/06/2018 to 21/10/2018

This landmark exhibition explores the influence of Michael Jackson on some of the leading names in contemporary art, spanning several generations of artists across all media. Curated by Dr Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, the exhibition will open in the summer of 2018 to coincide with what would have been Michael Jackson’s 60th birthday (on August 29, 2018). With among others Andy Warhol, David Hammons, David LaChapelle, Kehinde Wiley, Glenn Ligon.

Pierre et Gilles
Kehinde Wiley
PAR AMOUR DU JEU 1998-2018 – GROUP SHOW

MAGASINS GENERAUX, PANTIN, FRANCE From 09/06/2018 to 05/08/2018

For the launch of their first cultural season, The Magasins généraux are pleased to propose an exhibition and performances exploring the links between art, football and society from 1988 to 2018. With, among others : Neil Beloufa, Mohamed Bourouissa, Guillaume Bresson, Taro Izumi, Claude Lévêque, Melik Ohanian, Pierre et Gilles, Juergen Teller, Kehinde Wiley, Erwin Wurm etc. Image: Kehinde Wiley, Idrissa Ndiaye, 2012, oil on canvas, 244 x 213,5 cm

Kehinde Wiley
KEHINDE WILEY – SOLO SHOW

BOZAR/PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM From 07/02/2018 to 05/05/2018

As part of the AFROPOLITAN 2018 FESTIVAL, BOZAR (Brussels) welcomes five stained glass pieces by Afro-american artist Kehinde Wiley, from February 7 to May 5, 2018. By combining the traditional medium of stained glass, its light manifesting a divine presence, with contemporary images anchored in American culture, Kehinde Wiley raises a whole host of highly topical questions, both cultural and political, about our models of society, identity and gender. Born in 1977 in Los Angeles, Kehinde Wiley lives and works between New York and Beijing. Kehinde Wiley has recently been chosen by former President Barack Obama to paint his official portrait for the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC. Free entrance

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KEHINDE WILEY AT ZEITZ MOCCA

Zeitz MOCAA, South AfricaFrom 22/09/2017

American artist Kehinde Wiley is part of the inaugural collection at the newly opened Zeitz MOCAA (Museum of Contemporary Art Africa) in Cape Town, the biggest museum in Africa.

Kehinde Wiley
A NEW REPUBLIC – SOLO SHOW

OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM, OKLAHOMA, ETATS-UNIS,From 6/17/2017 to 9/10/2017

Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic presents an overview of the artist’s career. The exhibition highlights the range of Wiley’s production, starting with examples of early paintings executed around the time of his 2001 residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem The exhibition will also include a selection from his ongoing World Stage project, which he initiated in 2006 by establishing a satellite studio in Beijing, China. In addition, the exhibition will include portrait busts, stained glass, as well as female portraiture from Wiley’s recent series An Economy of Grace. Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic is organized by the Brooklyn Museum. Oklahoma City will be the final stop on the tour that has included Texas, Washington, Virginia, Arizona, and Ohio.