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== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
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Wiley identifies as gay.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/arts/design/kehinde-wiley-puts-a-classical-spin-on-his-contemporary-subjects.html |title=Kehinde Wiley Puts a Classical Spin on His Contemporary Subjects |author=Deborah Solomon |date=January 28, 2015 |publisher=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2017/10/20/barack-obama-picks-gay-artist-kehinde-wiley-to-do-his-official-portrait/ |title=Barack Obama picks gay artist Kehinde Wiley to do his official portrait |publisher=''[[PinkNews]]'' |author=Benjamin Butterworth |date=20 October 2017 |accessdate=February 12, 2018}}</ref>


== Selected solo exhibitions ==
== Selected solo exhibitions ==

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Kehinde Wiley
Born1977 (age 46–47)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationSan Francisco Art Institute, 1999
MFA, Yale University School of Art, 2001
Known forPainting
Notable workNapoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps (2005)
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Napoleon Leading the Army over the Alps (2005), Brooklyn Museum
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Le Roi a la Chasse (2006), Blanton Museum Art

Kehinde Wiley (born 1977)[1] is a New York City-based portrait painter who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of African-Americans. The Columbus Museum of Art, which hosted an exhibition of his work in 2007, describes his work as follows: "Wiley has gained recent acclaim for his heroic portraits which address the image and status of young African-American men in contemporary culture."[2]

In October 2017 it was announced that Wiley had been commissioned to produce a portrait of former U.S. president Barack Obama for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.[3] This painting was unveiled on February 12, 2018.[4] He and Amy Sherald are the first black artists to make official presidential portraits for the National Portrait Gallery.[5]

Early life and education

Wiley was born in Los Angeles, California. His father is Yoruba from Nigeria, and his mother is African-American. As a child, his mother supported his interest in art and enrolled him in after-school art classes. At the age of 12, he spent a short time at an art school in Russia.[6]

Wiley did not grow up with his father, and at the age of 20 traveled to Nigeria to explore his roots and meet him.[7] Wiley earned his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1999 and his MFA from Yale University, School of Art in 2001.[1]

Career

Wiley often references Old Masters paintings for the pose of the figure.[8] Wiley’s paintings often blur the boundaries between traditional and contemporary modes of representation. Rendered in a realistic mode—while making references to specific Old Master paintings—Wiley creates a fusion of period styles, ranging from French Rococo, Islamic architecture and West African textile design to urban hip hop and the "Sea Foam Green" of a Martha Stewart Interiors color swatch. Wiley's slightly larger than life-size figures are depicted in a heroic manner, as their poses connote power and spiritual awakening. Wiley’s portrayal of masculinity is filtered through these poses of power and spirituality.

Wiley's Napoleon Leading the Army Over the Alps (2005) is based on Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1800) by Jacques-Louis David, often regarded as a "masterpiece", now restaged by Wiley with an African rider wearing modern army fatigues and a bandanna. Wiley "investigates the perception of blackness and creates a contemporary hybrid Olympus in which tradition is invested with a new street credibility".[9]

His portraits are based on photographs of young men whom Wiley sees on the street. He has painted men from Harlem’s 125th Street, as well as the South Central Los Angeles neighborhood where he was born. Dressed in street clothes, his models were asked to assume poses from the paintings of Renaissance masters, such as Tiziano Vecellio and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Wiley describes his approach as "interrogating the notion of the master painter, at once critical and complicit." His figurative paintings "quote historical sources and position young black men within that field of power". In this manner, his paintings fuse history and style in a unique and contemporary manner. His art has been described as having homoerotic qualities.[10]

Wiley had a retrospective in 2016 at Seattle Art Museum.[11] In May 2017, he had an exhibit, Trickster, at the Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City. The exhibit featured 11 paintings depicting contemporary black artists.[4]

Recognition and honors

In October 2011, Wiley received the Artist of the Year Award from the New York City Art Teachers Association/United Federation of Teachers. He also received Canteen Magazine's Artist of the Year Award. Two of Wiley's paintings were featured on the top of 500 New York City taxi cabs in early 2011 as a collaboration with the Art Production Fund.

Wiley is featured in a commercial on the USA as a 2010 Character Honoree.[12] Puma AG commissioned Wiley to paint four portraits of prominent African soccer players. Patterns from his paintings were incorporated into Puma athletic gear.[7] The complete series, Legends of Unity: World Cup 2010, was exhibited in early 2010 at Deitch Projects in New York City.[13]

His work was exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery as part of the Recognize exhibit in 2008.[14] Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, a retrospective at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA), in the summer of 2016 (June 11–September 5) assembled nearly 60 of his paintings and sculptures.

In October 2017 it was announced that Wiley and Amy Sherald had been chosen to paint official portraits of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama to be held in the collection of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.[15][16][17][18][19]

Personal life

Wiley identifies as gay.[20][21]

Selected solo exhibitions

  • 2006: Kehinde Wiley: Columbus at the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
  • 2006: Willem van Heythuysen at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
  • 2008: Three Wise Men Greeting Entry Into Lagos at (PAFA) Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2009: The World Stage: Brazil at Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2009: The World Stage: Africa at ArtSpace, San Antonio, TX
  • 2009: Black Light at Deitch Projects, New York City
  • 2010: Legends of Unity | World Cup 2010 | PUMA, several locations worldwide
  • 2010: The World Stage: India, Sri Lanka at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • 2011: Kehinde Wiley: Selected Works at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
  • 2012: An Economy of Grace at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City
  • 2012: The World Stage: France at Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
  • 2012: Kehinde Wiley/ The World Stage: Israel at The Jewish Museum, New York City[22]
  • 2011–13: The World Stage: Israel at Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA; traveled to Jewish Museum (New York) (2012); the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA (2013); Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID (2013)
  • 2013: Kehinde Wiley: Memling at Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
  • 2013: The World Stage: Jamaica at Stephen Freidman Gallery, London, UK
  • 2015–17: Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic[23] at the Brooklyn Museum (2015), Brooklyn, NY; traveled to Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (2016); Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (2016); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (2016); Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (2016); Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (2017), Oklahoma City Museum of Art (2017)[24]
  • 2017: Trickster, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City[25]
  • 2017-18: In Search of the Miraculous at Stephen Freidman Gallery, London, UK

Collections

References

  1. ^ a b "Kehinde Wiley", Artnet. Retrieved October 13, 2010.
  2. ^ Villarreal, Ignacio. "Kehinde Wiley: Columbus To Open". artdaily.com.
  3. ^ Smith, Roberta. "Why the Obamas' Portrait Choices Matter". New York Times. Retrieved December 24, 2017.
  4. ^ a b Frank, Priscilla (May 26, 2017). "Kehinde Wiley Paints The Formative Black Artists Of Our Time". Huffington Post. Retrieved June 22, 2017.
  5. ^ "Michelle Obama portrait by Baltimore artist Amy Sherald makes national splash". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2018-02-12.
  6. ^ Kehinde Wiley, "On studying art in the forests of St. Petersburg at age 12, his hyperdecorative style, and combining grandeur with chance", Wall Street Journal, April 26, 2012.
  7. ^ a b "PUMA commissions Contemporary Artist Kehinde Wiley to create portraits of African Football Players to Celebrate World Cup 2010 Campaign", PUMA Creative, January 2010. Retrieved October 13, 2010.
  8. ^ Hurst, Roy. "Young, Gifted, and Black: Painter Kehinde Wiley", NPR, June 1, 2005.
  9. ^ Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed. (2008). Art Now, Vol. 3: A cutting-edge selection of today's most exciting artists. Taschen. p. 512. ISBN 9783836505116.
  10. ^ Philip Kennicott (February 12, 2018). "The Obamas' portraits are not what you'd expect and that's why they're great". The Washington Post.
  11. ^ Romano, Tricia. "A new republic: Kehinde Wiley comes to Seattle Art Museum". Seattle Times. Retrieved February 4, 2016.
  12. ^ "Art: Kehinde Wiley" Archived 2010-03-15 at the Wayback Machine, USA Network. Retrieved October 13, 2010.
  13. ^ "Equestrian Portrait of the Count-Duke Olivares (captioned image)". Harper's. 320 (1, 919): 17. April 2010. Retrieved August 15, 2011. (subscription required)
  14. ^ "Painting: Kehinde Wiley", National Portrait Gallery: Recognize! Hip Hop and Contemporary Portraiture. Retrieved October 13, 2010.
  15. ^ Frank, Priscilla (13 October 2017). "Get To Know The Artists Painting The Obamas' Official Portraits". Huffington Post.
  16. ^ Cascone, Sarah. "The Obamas Choose Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald to Paint Their Official Portraits for the Smithsonian", Artnet, October 13, 2017.
  17. ^ Greenberger, Alex, "Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald to Paint Portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama", Art News, October 13, 2017.
  18. ^ Crow, Kelly, "Obamas Choose Rising Stars to Paint Their Official Portraits", Wall Street Journal, October 13, 2017.
  19. ^ Vartanian, Hrag, "Artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald Chosen to Paint Official Obama Portraits for the Smithsonian", Hyperallergic, October 13, 2017.
  20. ^ Deborah Solomon (January 28, 2015). "Kehinde Wiley Puts a Classical Spin on His Contemporary Subjects". The New York Times.
  21. ^ Benjamin Butterworth (20 October 2017). "Barack Obama picks gay artist Kehinde Wiley to do his official portrait". PinkNews. Retrieved February 12, 2018. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  22. ^ "Kehinde Wiley / The World Stage: Israel". The Jewish Museum.
  23. ^ "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved June 22, 2017.
  24. ^ Cocoves, Athena. "KEHINDE WILEY'S TWIN DESIRES: CLEARING SPACE AND BUILDING A NEW REPUBLIC AT THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART". Toledo City Paper. Retrieved June 22, 2017.
  25. ^ "Kehinde Wiley: Trickster", Sean Kelly.
  26. ^ "Kehinde Wiley". thejewishmuseum.org.
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